 I was a youth once, it's one of the interesting things that Young People's Oppression is one of the few oppressions that everyone has gone through at some point and yet we keep replicating it. So the panel that we're about to enter into is a group of folks who have been fighting the good fight and are leading voices in this struggle. So this will be our first time doing a panel live like this. So just to set everybody up, we're going to have a little bit of attempt at production, so our production team is ready for this. But the way it will work, I'll just introduce some of the folks in the different panel one by one and just bring them up. So by to you, Anna. Great. And so I'm going to introduce the panel that we've got here, again, Building Power Through Youth Organizing. So we have Brianna. Hi Brianna, it's so nice to see you again. Hello, it's so good to see you, Daniel. Yeah, it's amazing the spaces that, you know, how this all gets pulled together. Okay, so we've got Vanessa. Come join us. It seems like magic. Ray. Ray, hi. Hi, Greta. Hi, Greta. And Nicky. We'll be moderating. I'm going to step off. I'm going to step off. I'm going to step off. I'm going to step off. As soon as I learned about climate change and the implications it would have on my islands, I knew that I had to do something. I'm from San Juan, so that's a small group of islands with a large ocean, a vibrant culture, and very friendly people. For me, my island and my culture survival is non-negotiable. And so I fight for climate justice because it is synonymous with fighting for my home survival. I'm fighting because I'm doing this to survive my home and I'm continuing my activism. I was born in this fight. We need to be in this fight. And the cost of silence is extremely high. Because we really can't get rid of this cost. If we don't fight, thank you very much, Brianna. Who wants to continue? Vanessa, would you like to? Yes. Thank you so much. I remember that in 2018, I started doing a lot of research. I learned about business and administration, and I don't think there's a lot of issues around that. We all have problems with nature, but as a result of doing this research, I saw that the risks of climate change in the country are so high right now. And I understood how dangerous it was. I saw that the risks of climate change in the country and in the world are really high. And actually, the lives of people are actually in the process of transition. And at the end of the day, a lot of families are coming to this. The climate crisis actually comes as a public opinion. The climate crisis comes as a public opinion. The climate crisis comes as a public opinion and the It affects the changes of our lives, and all of these are part of my activism. I participated in the climate strike in my country. I was actually inspired by Greta's work. She gave me the same thing in my country. In fact, millions of young people from all over the world are asking for the same thing. Who is asking for justice? And it is very important to see the strength of young women. Thank you very much Vanessa. Hello, thank you very much for calling me here. I am Philippina. I am a transgender woman at the same time. But in my opinion, my dream has always been to study molecular biology in college. Actually, when I discovered something, I wanted to put it in the middle. What I see is that women like me and other women at the same time have seen the barriers ahead. This motivated me. But I am in the Philippines. We are the biggest LGBTI community in the Philippines. The problems that LGBTI people face are not different from the problems that the society faces. It is important to fight for the sky. At the same time, in the Philippines, there is no serious economic disaster. We will be one of the first countries to experience the effects of economic disasters. We are already experiencing it now. But the main issue here is that in the Philippines, a very backward country is very dependent on other countries. We have this idea that countries like us don't have anything to do with the countries like the Philippines. We are one of the first countries to experience the effects of economic disasters. The reason for this is that we are very old. That is why I am participating in this struggle. As I have seen many other young people, the people on this panel are fighting everywhere on the streets. They are fighting for our minds. This is a struggle that we can win. Thank you very much Greta. Greta, what do you want to say? Thank you very much for calling me here. It is very important for me to be here as a panelist. I am coming from a very separate part of the world. In this sense, we have the highest level of economic crisis in the world. And one of the things that I think is going to be affected is that I was thinking that the economic crisis was far away from me or that everyone was far away from me. But it was like it was not available. I was thinking that if it was a few degrees warmer, it would be a little bit warmer in Sweden. But people are saying that the economic crisis is actually threatening to continue on this path. Or people are acting like this. They are not doing anything good. It was like the crisis was available. I started to read a little bit. I couldn't understand the name of the crisis. I couldn't understand the dual morality and dual standard. And I was a little bit more attached to the economic crisis. And I wanted to fully understand it. Actually, we couldn't understand it. So I thought that I had to do something. I couldn't just continue like this. I couldn't do anything sitting like this. I couldn't just accept that I had to accept it. I saw it as a moral task. So I decided to do something. I decided to do something. And when I decided to do something, I took a photo of it. But someone needs to do something. I said, I can do something. Just like you said, I'm also motivated by everyone. I'm motivated by everyone. I'm also motivated by people who have contributed before I was born. I mean, all people from the struggle, from the future, from the future, from the future, from the future, from the future, from the future, from the future, from the future, I want to do everything that I can and I just suggest the fact that I want to be able to go back to what I grew up with. I did everything I could. I want to say that I did everything. This motivates me and I think it's the only right thing to do. Yes. You have to do something. You have to do something. I love this. All of you said that. I love your stories to be all of you activists. Your stories to tell. Again, I will ask questions to all of you. First of all, I will ask Vanessa. There are some issues that need to be clarified especially in the movement of religion. There are people who don't fully understand the relationship between religious justice and justice. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. In my opinion, religious justice and racial justice are the two issues that are against each other. This is the ground of here to initiate what we are seeing right now. This is something that is interconnected to all of these issues. Who is the most affected? Who is the most affected? Who are the most affected? Especially the black people, black people, indigenous people. Who are facing this crisis right now? They are facing the changes right now. They are the most affected by this crisis. They are the ones who are willing to eat and protect themselves. They are the ones who are trying to protect the ecosystems. They are willing to grow their roots. We see all these communities rising in the West. We see that they are actually rising in the West. The media itself, those who are at the front lines of the climate crisis, they are actually at the front lines of the world. They are also talking about the issues that they are facing right now. They are trying to explain the issues that they are facing. I can also say that I was in Davos when I was caught out on a photo. It really had a very hard time talking about it. Every time I get to talk about it, it feels like yesterday. It was the first time I felt racism in the climate movement. And it was the time that made me question my presence as a public friend, that I was doing my activities and I was thinking about many people at the front lines and I asked them what I would call the opportunity to speak at the first conference and even while at the first conference, I was trying to explain the issues that I am facing. So, what really happened was thinking about those who didn't take this message. Davos, I mean, those who were trying so hard to have their voices on the slide. So, do you want to be able to achieve and then clear justice? And then we come into consideration racial justice. I can't understand my opinion in any way. Black people still continue to face the change in the climate. But they can't go to the other pages. Even the solutions that are being talked about, even the solutions that are related to the climate crisis, even the solutions that are not going to be useful to all of us. All of the communities, all of the people, all of the people who are not going to be useful to achieve the justice for the climate and for everyone. We have to make sure that we have to organize, we have to unbleed find voices of those who are affected about now. We have to increase their voices. We have to understand their values. Because, yes, every activist has a solution to do. Every nation has a right to change. So, I think that the only way that we would achieve justice is what's together. So, if everybody is connecting every community, because of who they are, when they come from the community, how they come from the community, how they speak to each other, all of us have to work together to achieve justice. And the most affected areas and people need this. Thank you, Vanessa. Thank you very much, Vanessa. I think the fight for justice for climate justice is not really a technical issue, not really a technical issue. Actually, it's all about us. I'm sorry, I have a long connection with the moderator. I will try to turn it as much as I can. Yes, I would like to learn about this topic as well. Niki, we missed a little bit of what you said. So, please ask a question just once more. So, I'm going to talk here. Can you repeat the question again? So, everyone can hear it. Yeah. Okay. I want to ask you a question. What is like to be active in this country? What is like to be active in this country? First of all, I want to be established here in the Philippines because we are currently in a civil war. It's going on in the Philippines, especially in the Philippines. And it's been going on for years. It has the effects of our civil war, from the activists in the area. Because the government has finally turned the gun into a country that has been going on for a long time. And while doing this, they have criminalized all the anti-terrorism, the counter-terrorism, the criminalization. Especially at the moment, when the government is so much criticized, when the local people are talking about justice, when we are talking about any kind of demand, when we are talking about a fair future, when we are talking about all of this, especially in the Philippines, activism is being brought back to value. So many people, many activists have been killed. They are actually connected to the Philippines and the Philippines Communist Party. And last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, last year, I was just thrown into jail for speaking. During the detention, I was actually very different in terms of water use, I was very serious about social justice. It's good to hear what people want to hear, but it's not true. And Philippine, we're against these. This is a lot of activists, we're against the facts, we're against the way they threaten our society, we're against this right now. I know from the first act, activists, my friends are in jail, a lot of things are happening for them, people who are out of their land, people who are out of their land, especially local people, people who are actually asking for rights after various disasters, and they are really against the various crimes, just for what they're talking about. And that's funny what is going on here. And now, in the Philippines, people are criminalizing, they're saying that they're thinking that they're guilty. But this is not the need to stop our struggle, we're going to continue to struggle. We're going to continue to fight with workers, with farmers, with villagers, and we're going to continue to kill all the parts of society. And we're not going to stop our struggle to ask for rights, we're going to continue to ask for rights in terms of young people. So that is what it is like. I tried to give you a summary of what happened in the Philippines, but as I said, this is not the need to stop our struggle, there are a lot of people who have rights. As you know, in other countries, people continue to struggle. And in fact, we all continue to struggle to continue to fight. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Briana, you're actually a small, but also a small island, and it's a very important part of the country, it's the same level of water. And one of the first countries to be affected by this climate crisis is actually a small island in terms of the struggle of the communities to fight climate justice. Thank you very much. I think that there's so much we can learn from small islands, and it is a very important part of the country. I don't think we have an ability to get something out of the country. I'm trying to get back to you. In my culture, there's something called avalanche. And this means the space between us and it becomes a belief that there is a human interaction between us. And at the same time, there is a space between us and the nature, and so we see this as an entity. We see it as an entity. We see it as an entity. So there's something that we hear after an avalanche, which is it's own utility, va, we must tend to the space. And actually, we must tend to the privilege. We will leave that if a time we have a kind of crisis in a result of people exploiting this va or this space between us and the nature. And now, we have much to do to tend to this space. And also, for indigenous people, we know how to live in harmony. Because we think that in the end, we can live in harmony. Because we have been living on this planet for hundreds of years. People don't deserve this planet. I really think so many indigenous people deserve this planet because we have been living on this planet for hundreds of years. So, indigenous people not only deserve this planet, but we also deserve that voice when it comes to the hearing of our children and we can guarantee you that there are so many solutions in our culture that are not actually a solution. So, I believe that we need to start knowing this and we need to have the front lines so we don't have to be just a victim or a victim. We need to have the right to think about this crisis. And Greta, in your opinion, when this is a more fair way to go to a world, what is the best way to create a world? And in order to create just a voice, we need to listen to those whose voices are being most oppressed and that is the only way and we need to change our mindsets both when it comes to the relationship of other humans and the relationship of nature and also once we get past that time we won't be able to achieve any changes unless we drastically change our mindsets. And some of the challenges I think were apart from the obvious one that we can't gather in large crowds because of the corona I think the biggest challenges that we will face this year is that now countries and companies are making pledges and climate commitments. It sounds really good but the devil is always hiding in the level of awareness. We don't know what are those targets in terms of what they need and what type of emissions they exclude in the reporting of those emissions. And if you can say that our targets are in line with what science says in the reporting of those emissions, our targets are in line with what science says and the reason why we can say that is actually because we can include and exclude lots of things like we can make these times depending on fantasy scale and negative emissions technologies and so on. And of course the general narrative is that now things are happening and there are things happening in China as well as America, China and the media of course goes along with and so I think the biggest challenge will be to call that out and to spread awareness and of course to keep the momentum going. We need to realize that this is a marathon on the spreader. I know we want quick solutions and quick fixes but to a problem so complex is this one quick fixes and just small steps in the right direction and the actual structural changes will not be enough and then yes there will be nothing but can we satisfy with something just because it's better than anything because this is a matter of life because it's very important for so many people the biggest challenges in due to the burden going into not to get high as in like oh well we we've been doing this for so long we've settled this for now we're going to settle this by 2050 it's okay until 2050 and to keep the momentum we need to keep the momentum and we need to continue this thank you thank you there is someone else who wants to answer this we already talked but I want to know more as a young activist what are the difficulties you face for me I find the most challenging thing is trying to explain how intersectional it's going to be so many the panelist has mentioned this how we change the byproduct of capitalism and colonization and there is a little issue here without facing the cause and acknowledging the black indigenous we can't find the cause and the consequences to it further explain and so as I'm an activist we are not the activists but we work on the intersectional of this crisis and we have to figure out that in order to solve it we must dismantle the society we must always remind ourselves that the crime and justice is not just a situation justice it's gender justice it could be a Q it's the justice of the justice of this broken system that has come into place in order for us to say crime and justice is true thank you Rihanna Vanessa do you want to say thank you there's been quite a number of challenges activism in my country it seems very easy to organize very very big strikes and to strike students and different people and to get permit because we don't have any big organization to help you organize that was one of the challenges that was the best in my activism and I think I really remember because activism comes so much negativity it makes people a lot negative challenges that I never faced before and myself alone but also on the activist it's very challenging and maybe to talk about the challenges that some of the activists that I worked with the activists we had some of them getting arrested and that is really challenging for them and also for us because it's kind of activism a very high thing to do because we are always worried about what to do and the challenge has been really talking to people because many times the community which out to speak to people and to question them what am I going to gain from this how much are you going to pay me how much are you going to give me if you're telling me to stop doing these I need to beat my family so don't I'm just trying to be strong saying they are not able to do activism because in first instance it should be noted because also the competition some of them are here and also I think people will say and you may be fighting some of the people those who are fighting to do that I think and activists but what I can say is that if I can if I can if I can just do fighting to write it for but at the same time I'm fighting to write it for people people who are poor poor they are left their homes their houses everything is affected I know when I was fighting for civil's modality I also fight for gender equality I also fight for I have to say that it's not just for me, it's for other activists as well. I hope people understand this, they understand that it's not just for me. Last question. If you look at the history of all the social revolution, why? What was the greatest power of all of them? Sure. I'm in the price, and that's just something for all the young people to want to create a better world than the child is. I did. I did. I think that this is quite natural. I mean, young people, we don't use documents. I mean, we can't change. We've always been this way. We always used to be black. We don't have some of the prejudices. I mean, we don't have any prejudices. But it's just, we need to change. We always say, we're always this way and we don't change. We don't look at it as that. Old people look at it like this. They look at it differently. So I think it's just, so I think it's just, so I think it's just, as much as all the people do about those old people, so they are more socialistic than the system. They are afraid of losing their system status. They don't have to worry so much about losing speech. We don't have to worry so much about losing speech because we're in danger. But on the other hand, we have much more to lose. We don't have to worry so much about losing speech. But of course, when it comes to time, I think it's just a remarkable, the most affected are young people. And young people understand this. They understand that there is a great lack of justice here. And we want to correct these lack of justice because we will be affected the most. Well, if you look at the history, all countries have always been young. Those who are on the chain of change are a natural thing for youth. To show this, to show this. And that's why old people are jealous of us. They say that we are idealists, that we are very dreamy, that we dream too much. But I think this problem is not the dream of a better world. The problem is not the way the system is right now. Youngness has the vitality of youth. It has the energy. And it has the courage to dream. This is needed. For all social changes, for LGBT rights, for fighting, I am in this struggle. Young people are the most progressive. Or now, the issues are in the climate disaster. This world is going to be burned. That's why we are standing up for our rights. I think these young people are a challenge for us. Because we come from all parts of society. We are young people. We are the poor in the city. We are LGBT. We are workers. We are normal people. And for us, there is a need to get in with each other. Because this same system is encouraging all of us. And we have to fight to change this. That's why we have to change the things we see right now. And I think we agree with what Greta said that young people are going to be in our journey. And because we are looking for the place where we live, we are optimistic that the world needs young people. And that's why we have been at the forefront of this world and the movements that have changed the world. Because our hope and hope and dreams are radical and can really change the world's work. Thank you Rihanna. Vanessa, what do you think? Just start by saying that when you find yourself in a house and you plan to run away from that house, you do everything. For young people it's like this. The planet is all you know and all the leaders have continued to do this crisis and even make it bad. So I think it's very easy to see that homes are under water and you have water and water and there's no water and there's no government and leaders and I personally I'm kind of thinking if we are going into our future and people are fighting as much as they can they need to understand that a lot of people are in danger in this moment so it's probably very, very bad. So I want to expect to be in a bad situation what are you waiting for from me? Because that's why young people are now very naive and that's why I think it will be better to not see anything if we see destruction then we are going to do to get something that is much better to get a picture that is healthier, sustainable, but it will be equal for all of us and we are now in sign language and I can't hear the words again just pause for a second let's see if the stream will catch up try again okay oh okay okay okay okay okay please post this on your instagram stories no more empty promises we are out of empty promises the climate for future you can use the hashtags you can tweet and you can subscribe we have a newsletter now this if you are interested you can talk about things you can do or I'm sorry I can't hear something on your left thank you very much thank you and maybe I'll just repeat again some of what you may have just gotten missed and so just again I'm a I'll just again so to it you no more empty promises at Friday's for So from another continent, another spot, when the value is available, try to stay here, but let's not just make a moment, but to come back. So you go to just recover gathering.org, slash follow. I can join Friday for Future.org. You can join Friday for Future.org, so you can join Friday for Future.org. To come to the next Friday, we have one more action. Ah, and please, a paper, an A4 paper, just recovery for all. We'll just go ahead and upload this. Thank you to the world. Thank you so much for doing this. And then let's pull this off. So we're going to try to set up a global banner here. And then we're going to go ahead and pull this off. So we're going to try to set up a global banner here. And it's a little bit, in that scenario, as folks get older, we begin to accept what is, and we get exactly what is in the status quo and then we just kind of, as a lack of statement of who we are and the way in which we choose to continue to resist, and we're going to create a banner that's a whole global enterprise. So this is a banner that we're going to create. Can you put that up? There's another example. So, yeah, so this one stopped funding climate criminals. If I were to do, you're in a moment, you don't have to be super artistic. I did this in a second. You don't have to be super artistic. I did this in a second. I did try my minimum. This is my minimum. This is my low bar. But all you do is create a banner. And a real email that you want to flash up the email. It's just photos at 350. And so a photo of that email. So you email, take a picture of yourself with that email. And then you go to the email that you got to use. And then it's lacking on the job. It makes a lot of sense. I'm tired today. That's right. We're going to keep you up to date. What would you do? We would just sit and watch. Because we assume we're going to be consumers. And we want you to act. So we're going to be your audience. We're going to be your audience. We're going to be your audience. And after that we will do that for five hours. As we, as those things are happening. We've got a team whose going to take those pictures and put them together into a little banner. So please go ahead and do that. I think we should go ahead and do it right now. I will do a quick photoshoot of this photo. And we tried to spell out just recovery for all, that's about it. I always remember from the climate strikes in September when it was, was it not last year, was the fact that loads of people and especially the youth, especially the people who had got global strength, but it was like, why don't you do something like that, like the country that had joined the climate march? How much inspiration did you give to the youth, and how did you get into solidarity with the youth, youth groups, and so, I'm not just saying anyone is watching you buying the pipeline, but yeah definitely like, you know, and you can't just buy and buy the pipeline, it's on your to-do list, check it out. Don't just don't do it. And also the theme that was picked up, I just want to emphasize that I just, I really resonate for you. Photos at 350.org address will go to the line. It's not just little steps, but we're really looking for large structural change. One of the things he said was being not known in the back of what creates large structural change. It's not in the writing, but it's not in the cultural power that he's only had to be in the story of how we had that power. So this is something that we're going to talk about. So the big power, how we created this story, or how we built these local groups, or how we built these stories, and how we established and helped people to see their own power. And also to help people to see their own power and to help them change and to play a role. So I think that the problem we should be dealing with is the size of the problem that we should be dealing with. So we're headed into workshops, and if you haven't done it, Anna is going to explain it to you. Now, where is your left? Where is your left plashons? Anna, sorry, sorry. Daniel's my glamorous sister. Where's your left? I'm sorry, I know. Where is your left plashons? Anna, sorry. Daniel is my glamorous sister. Where it says special, which sessions are live? And then she used to say, it was actually amazing content for you. And a lot of people have been skiing, and in the flash sessions, are they recorded? And so all of these things have been kind of panels, panels, panels, and this is how we got it. And then we got this one recording, many of them are possible. And then panels are recorded. Atöle is recorded, many of them are recorded. All the recordings are shown. And figure out what goes there. So if you want to know more, then we're going to open up the session now. So you'll be able to see your niggas once for all the panels. Thank you to all of you, all of these panelists. And thank you to all of the panelists for listening to us. It's nice to listen to your knowledge, your knowledge, your knowledge. Thank you to all of you who are listening. This panel will be in the near future. Thank you. Bye.