 I was a youth once it's one of the 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 as a group of folks who've been fighting the good fight and our 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 gonna have a little bit of attempt at production so our production team is ready for this but the ways to work I'll just introduce some of the folks in the different panel one by one and just bring them up so bye to you Anna great and so I'm gonna 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 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 see just like that magic Ray hi Ray hello and then we have Greta sweet hi Greta and then we have Nikki who will be moderating this panel so I'm gonna step off give you a chance to introduce yourselves or say whatever however you want to set that up all you welcome everyone to the youth panel thank you so much for all the people who are watching us right now and of course this amazing panel I'm Nikki Becker I make climate justice activists from Argentina and today we are going to talk about the power the power of young people because the youth have always been willing to give their bodies lives and time to change because we dare to challenge the idea that seems to be normalized in the rest of the society and we are not satisfied with the world as peace and that's why we mobilize organize speak out and write history in our world so here we have four amazing activists from all over the world with different backgrounds but something in common they organize with other people to be a better world thank you Vanessa Ray Greta and Rihanna for being here and we will start with the first question to all of you about why did you became an activist and also what motivates you to continue your activism now Rihanna do you want to start and then whoever wants to continue yeah um thank you Nikki and um it's so great to be on the panel of all young women so great to see the power of young women in these places um really good question what got me into this work and what motivates me is the same thing as soon as I learned about climate change and implications it would have on my islands I knew that I had to do something I'm from Samoa 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 it is non-negotiable and so I fight for climate justice because it is synonymous with fighting for my home survival um like most young people and and most climate activists in particular in frontline communities we're in this fight because we need to be and because we know that the cost of silence is too great to bear and so that's why I do this work and that's what motivates me to continue to do it thank you Rihanna who wants to continue my next value want to go yeah thank you so much um I remember 2018 that's when I started to do so much research about climate issues I studied business administration at university so I had no idea about environmental issues and the connection that we all have is nature but from that research I realized how much the people in my country were facing the impacts of climate change right now and from that research I realized how it is threatening the lives of the people across the country my country heavily depends on agriculture for survival and mostly for very many families especially in rural communities so that means the climate crisis means hunger the climate crisis means water scarcity the climate crisis means early marriages for many girls so it is an issue that is affecting different sectors of our lives and that's what really made me become an activist and to really start the climate strikes in my country I was inspired by seeing Greta do the strikes in Sweden and it really motivated me to do the same thing in my country and the other thing that really motivates me is millions of young people across the world demanding for climate justice and then just climate justice but all forms of justice and it's just incredible to see young people to see young women's truth to power thank you thank you hi thank you so much for having me so I'm Ray from the Philippines the Philippines is a very conservative country and so as a transgender woman you could kind of imagine what it's like here but for me you know I'm growing up my dream has always been to discover the cure to cancer which is why in college my degree was molecular biology and biotechnology but also somewhere along the way you know I've kind of thought about it like if I do discover something who is this going to be for and that was also the time when I saw the barriers that women like me and other members of the LGBT face even in science and that led me down the path of activism so right now I'm a member of Bahagari Bahagari means rainbow in Filipino um we are the biggest national democratic organization of the LGBT plus here in the Philippines and for us the issues that the LGBT face are not divorced from the issues being faced by the rest of society so we also believe that there are no rainbows for us under climate change which is why we also believe that the climate catastrophe is something that we need to be taking a part of um and for us in the Philippines you know um there's multiple layers to the climate catastrophe you know um being a country and the equator we are one of the countries that would definitely be the first ones to experience actually we're already experiencing the climate catastrophe right now numerous floods and rising sea levels um but the point here is that the Philippines is actually a very backward country um we are very dependent on other countries we're being exploited you know um and so there's a reflection there that um countries like us countries like the Philippines have the least to do with the climate catastrophe but we're also the ones who will suffer the most from it or be the first ones to drown from it so that is also a conversation about imperialism uh colonialism right and so that affects us in multiple ways and just like Rihanna you know it's like we're being thrust into the struggle and what motivates me you know is seeing so many other young people like me people in this panel people filling up the streets everywhere across the globe fighting for our rights that is what motivates me and that is what makes me believe that this is a fight that we can win thank you Ray and yes um thank you for having me and it's great to see so many other inspiring panelists it's such an honor to be here with you I think uh I mean I come from a very privileged part of the world in the sense that we have um very high emissions per capita and we are the ones who are going to be probably impacted the least by the climate crisis and so growing up the climate crisis was something that was very very far away from me and from basically everyone so I mean it was just it didn't exist really it was just something like in a sense that oh a few degrees warmer that that would be nice we have a very cold climate here in Sweden but I I sort of couldn't get my head around that because people were saying one thing that oh the climate crisis threatens our civilization if we continue down this same path and on the other hand people were just acting as if everything was fine no one was doing anything so in that sense the crisis was non-existent and so I started to read up on that on the climate crisis because I couldn't just understand this double moral this double standards and so the more I read about it the more I became like stuck the climate crisis is such a thing that once you fully understand it you can't un-understand it in a way and so there I was and then I thought to myself I have to do something I I couldn't just continue like before knowing that all of this was happening and just sit back and do nothing my I couldn't just accept that I had like a moral duty that I had to fulfill so and also I'm autistic so well once I really decide to do something I go full in I go all in and and so then I just thought that someone needs to do something and I'm someone so then I can do something and like just like you say I'm I'm also motivated by everyone else by people who have been leading this fight for I mean long before I was even born and who have been who are pushing all the people I mean for example within the Fridays for Future movement but not only that I mean every single person on the planet fighting for their rights and fighting for the environment and especially the people on on the front lines who are who are fighting often despite all odds those are the ones who motivate me the most and I think if they can do it then I can it's like yeah yeah and also just the fact that I need to do something I want to be able to when I grow up to look back and say that I I did everything I could that's also something that that really motivates me it's like this is the only right thing to do and I mean yeah it's just you have to do something I love that each person has their own story of how they became an activist and it's very interesting to know to know that story and now I will ask you individual questions and I will ask start asking Manesa because even though this is becoming clear within the climate movement there are still many people who don't understand the relationship between climate justice and racial justice so can you tell us a little bit more about this and also your experience thank you very much to me climate justice and racial justice are so interconnected from the historical background of CO2 emissions and what we are seeing right now is clearly shows that this is these are issues that are interconnected you realize that those who are affected the most they are the least responsible for the climate crisis and these are communities of black people these are communities of brown people communities of indigenous people who are facing the impacts of climate change right now and yet they are least responsible to the climate crisis they are the ones struggling to find food to eat they're the ones struggling to protect and defend their lands they are the ones protecting and defending the ecosystems and trying to have access to food while we see communities in western countries rise their emissions with all of these things and even when it comes to the media itself those who are at the front lines of the climate crisis they are not on the front pages of the world newspapers from telling their stories and also to talking about the issues that they are facing right now and from my own personal experience well it was that was in Davos when I was coped out of a photo and it's really a very hard experience to talk about because every time I get to talk about it it feels like it just happened like yesterday and it was the first time I felt racism in the climate movement and it was the time that made me question my presence at the conference that took question my activism and the work that I was doing and I was thinking about many people back at home and communities that are the front lines and I was thinking that I had what I would call the opportunity to speak at at the press conference and even while at the press conference it was obvious that my presence and my message was erased so what really had most was thinking about those who didn't make it to to Davos and those who are trying so hard to have their voices amplified so to me we won't be able to achieve and get climate justice without putting into consideration racial justice as communities of black people continue to face the wrath of climate change again they are at the front lines and yet they are not on the front pages yet their voices are not being amplified even the solutions that are being talked about when it comes to to the climate crisis even in those solutions their injustices these are solutions that will not work for all of us these are solutions that will not work for all communities and I think for us to to achieve the justice that we want for the planet and for everyone we have to decolonize climate action we have to amplify voices of those who are being affected right now we have to tell their stories because every activist has a story to tell and every story has a solution to give and every solution has a life to change so I believe that the only way that we will achieve justice is working together is respecting every voice respecting every community regardless of who they are where they come from and how how they look like or what language they speak we all have to work together to ensure that those from the most affected places and areas receive the justice that they deserve thank you thank you Vanessa yeah people often think that the fight for the climate justice is just about saving a polar bear far away when in reality it is about fighting for all injustice and not for anyone to stop it I want to know what it's like to be an activist in a country where activism is dangerous especially because it's happening in other countries like America for example where I believe it's the most dangerous region to be an activist and this is but also this is a very serious mission in the Philippines or in even where activists are accused of being terrorists so can you tell us a bit more about this and also your experience? Nikki we missed a little bit of what you said so can you just ask that question just once more so everyone can hear thanks yeah um no I I want to ask Ray what it's like to be an activist in a country where activism is dangerous especially as a trans woman all right first I wanted to be established here in the Philippines right now we have an ongoing civil war it is a civil war between the government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Communist Party of the Philippines see people's armor and it's been going on for 52 years and why is this important because it has repercussions for us the activists on the ground because the government has been unable to put an end to the armed revolution being waged in the countryside what they have been doing is they have been criminalizing all forms of dissent so here in the Philippines for example women like me especially women like me right um whenever we so much as criticize the government for example when we demand justice for indigenous peoples when we demand um a just future that's worth inheriting and an end to um the climate catastrophe we get tagged as terrorists essentially activism is being equated to terrorists and here in the Philippines that's what's happening right now um and if you criticize the government you get told that you are an armed rebel that's what happens and this is what we call red tagging right when you get called a communist rebel and that has real repercussions those are not just words um so many people so many activists who have been killed um our activists who beforehand have been red tagged by state forces they were told that they were um members of the Communist Party of the Philippines um and that's what's happening right now I myself have experienced this kind of violence um last year we organized a pride march um here in the Philippines um and because we were demanding justice and we were demanding for the government to be held accountable for all of their abuses um we were unjustly arrested I along with 19 other members of the LGBT were slapped with trumped-up charges um and we were unjustly detained I have been in prison just for seeking out and during detention you know I've experienced multiple forms of abuses um gender-based violence I've experienced sexual abuse in the hands of police and it's grisly it may not be something that people want to hear but it is the reality that we are facing here in the Philippines and it is in fact the reality for so many activists around the world most especially when you threaten the way that our society is organized right now so I know firsthand for example I have friends who are activists for Indigenous people demanding an end to the pillaging of their ancestral lands um to Indigenous people who are demanding actual action when it comes to the private catastrophe they are being imprisoned right now they're facing trumped-up charges as just for speaking out you know and that is really what is going on right now um descent is being criminalized um but that is no excuse for us to stop fighting despite that we are trying to reach out to communities urban poor communities to workers to farmers um and organizing each sector you know despite that we are not ending our call to demand justice and that includes justice for us as the youth who are set to inherit a world that is on fire so that is what it's like you know that's sort of a brief overview of what it's like to be an activist here in the Philippines but like I said that's no reason for us to stop fighting and hearing the stories of so many people for example in this panel from other countries facing their own struggles that gives us the strength to go on and keep fighting anyway thank you Ray I hope my Wi-Fi is working well now I think I hope you are doing well um Briana now you you have lived for a long time in a small island Iceland called Samoa that because of its proximity to a large body of water is on the front line of the climate emergency that you already talked and what do you consider the significance of small islands than community fights in the global climate justice movement um thank you Nikki such a great question I think that there's so much we can learn from small islands especially within our indigenous cultures I always say that I don't think sustainability is something that we're trying to get to I think it's something we're trying to get back to um in my culture there's something called ava and this means the space between there we believe that there is a space between human and human and there's also a space between human and nature and so we don't see this space as being empty we actually see it as something that connects us and so there's something that we hear often in Samoan culture which is which means we must tend to the space um and it can also mean we must tend to the the relationship we believe that in the climate the climate crisis is a result of people exploiting this va or this space between human and nature and now there's much overdue tending to do between us and so for indigenous people we know how to live in harmony with nature because we've been doing it for centuries on this planet and so you know when people say humans don't deserve this planet I disagree because I feel like my village deserves this planet I feel like so many indigenous communities deserve this planet because we've lived harmoniously with it for centuries and so indigenous people not only deserve to have this this earth or this planet we're on but we also deserve to have a voice when it comes to solutions because I can guarantee you that there's so many solutions within our cultures just like I know that there's so many solutions within this va that Samoan people know how to tend to and so I believe that we need to start acknowledging this and and start learning from more communities who lie on the front lines because we are not just victims but we're actually the carriers of a lot of the solutions we need for this crisis. Thank you Brianna and Greta when this round of individual questions I would like to ask you what is the best way or at least what is your opinion of the best way to build a more just world and what do you think are the challenges facing the climate movement this year? I've been saying in order to create a just world we need to listen to those who are most most affected to those whose voices are being who are being most oppressed that is the only way and we need to sort of change our mindsets both when it comes to our relationships with other humans but also our relationship to nature that once we get past that step we won't be able to achieve any changes unless we drastically change our mindsets and some of the challenges I think well apart from the obvious one that we can't gather in large crowds because of the corona pandemic I think the biggest challenge the climate movement faces this year is that now countries and companies are making like pledges and climate commitments that sound really good but the devil is always in the details like they can say we're going to be net zero by 2050 and I mean they get away with it since the level of awareness is so incredibly low people don't know what I mean we don't know what those targets include we don't know what loopholes they include and what kind of emissions they exclude when in the reporting of those emissions and I mean it's and of course you can say that our targets are in line with the Paris Agreement our targets are in line with what science says needs to be done to stay below 1.5 and the reason why we can say that is because we can cheat and we can like include and exclude lots of things like we can make these targets depending on fantasy-scaled negative emissions technologies and so on so and of course the general narrative is that now things are happening the US and the EU is leading they have committed themselves to net zero and China has committed itself to climate neutrality and so on and the media of course goes along with that and so I think the biggest challenge will be to call that out in and to spread awareness and of course to keep the momentum going people we need to we need to realize that this is a marathon not a sprint I know we want quick solutions we want quick fixes but to a problem such so difficult and so complex as this one quick fixes and just small steps in the right direction without any actual structural changes will not be enough and yes they are better than nothing but we cannot be satisfied with something just because it's better than nothing because this is a matter of life and death for so for too many people so I think that will be the biggest challenges in to keep the momentum going into not not get tired and say like oh well we we've been doing this for so long can't we just settle this for now can't we just say a net zero emissions by 2050 is okay because we don't have any more energy to fight on to keep the momentum going and to keep to to keep the fight going thank you Greta and this question can we can be answered by anyone who want to we already talked a little bit about it but I want to know more about what are the challenges that you face as a young activist who want to go Rihanna maybe or Rihanna for me I find the most challenging thing is trying to explain to people how intersectional this crisis is and I think so many of the previous panelists have mentioned this climate change is a byproduct of capitalism and colonization and we know this to be true there is no achieving climate justice without facing the cause and acknowledging the black indigenous and people of color communities that face its consequences to a further extent and so as climate activists we need to not only acknowledge this but work on the intersectional ties of this crisis because we all know that in order to solve it we must dismantle the whole system in which it was built on and and a lot of the time this gets left out of the conversation but we must always remind ourselves that climate justice is indigenous justice it's racial justice it's gender justice it's LGBTQI plus justice it's it's all of the justices within this broken system that must come into place in order for us to say that climate justice is true thank you Rihanna Vanessa do you want to go next well thank you that there's been quite a number of challenges from when I started activism in my country it's not very easy to you know organize very very big strikes and get to do the strikes with students and different people because it's hard to get permits especially you don't have when you don't have any big organization to help you with that so that that was one of the challenges that I faced in my activism and the other thing I really remember of course activism comes with so much negativity from different people online in person yeah those are also challenges that I may not be facing by myself alone but also other activists face those very challenges and maybe to talk about the challenges that some of the activists that I work with have really faced we've had some of them getting arrested and and that is really challenging for them and also for us because it kind of makes our activism a very hard thing to do because you're always in worry about what could happen next and the other challenge has been really talking to people because many times when we would do community reach outs to speak to people here in Uganda you get questions like what am I going to gain from this how much are you going to pay me if you're telling me to stop doing these are you going to feed my family so there are kind of those challenges of you know people saying they are not able to do activism because of various reasons which is understandable because of the circumstances that some of them are in and also many people would say why and you maybe fighting for to end poverty to eradicate poverty so those were some of the challenges that I faced that are faced as an activist but what I can say is that if if I'm fighting for climate justice then it means that I'm fighting to eradicate poverty as well as I have seen and we've seen how climate change keeps people in poverty traps and when they lose everything their homes their crops they're left with nothing when I fight for climate justice I know fighting for gender equality for all to achieve zero hunger so it's all about people understanding the intersection of all these things and I guess that is like the current challenge I have but not just me but probably other activists as well to to help people understand the intersection of all these things thank you the last question is for everyone to answer because if you look at the history of all social transformation youth have been at the forefront of all of all of them but why what do you consider the power of the youth to be great how do you want to start sure I mean I'm not surprised that's just something I think that comes quite natural that the young people who grow up are going to have an urge to to want to create a better world than than their parents did to to sort of improve the state of the world I think that's that's a quite natural instinct but I mean young people we don't have we don't use the argument I mean we can't change because it's always been this way we are more sort of a more sort of a blank an empty book so to speak we don't have so many prejudices and I mean we don't have our our expectations on the world that it's always been this way so it can't change which lots of older people usually use in order to to prevent change from happening so I think and also children I mean we young people we don't care as much as as older people do about our social status because they are more used into this system and they are afraid to lose their the sort of state status we don't have in a way we have so much more to lose because in this case our future is at stake but on the other hand we don't in that sense we don't have much more to lose than yeah you get what I mean but of course when it comes to the climate emergency of course young people are the ones who are going to be most affected and I think that we can see that young people can understand that and in a way understand that there's a huge injustice here and that we want to I mean we want to make things right because we are the ones who are going to be most affected by this right do you want to go yeah so I completely agree with what Greta was saying you know if you look at history of pretty much every society you know it has always been the youth that has been at the forefront of changing things for the better and it is a natural thing you know for the youth to exhibit that in fact it is also why we get chest size right older people often say that we are naive that we are idealistic that we dream too much but I think that the problem is not that the youth dream of a better future the problem is that somewhere along the way those dreams get hammered out of us and we are being told to accept the system as it is we are being told to accept the abuse that we face as normal but it's not normal you know and so the youth who have the vitality and who have that very much needed willingness and daringness to dream that is necessary for any social transformation whether it's fighting for the rights of the LGBT which I've seen firsthand many members of the youth are the ones who take progressive measures when it comes to gender equality when it comes to the issues that we face right now which is the climate catastrophe right it's only natural the youth as the inheritors of this world that is currently on fire it's only natural for us to be the ones standing up for our rights right now and I suppose you know that is also a challenge for us as youth because we belong to every sector in society we as young people you know we are also the people in the urban poor we are people in the LGBT we are the women we are the workers we are the ordinary people we belong in every sector and so there is a necessity for us to link arms with each other and see that we are being abused by the same system and we need to be uniting to change things for the better so I think that is why we have a very very vital role in terms of changing things that we see right now for the better thank you Ray we are running out of time but I want to also to hear your opinion Brianna on this I completely agree with what Greta and what Ray have said there's something about young people we're always looking forward and I think that's just the nature of the place we are in our journey and because we're looking forward there's a level of optimism that the world needs from young people and that's why young people and young organizers have really been at the forefront of these world-changing movements and if there's one thing that we have it is passion and hope and like Ray was saying dreams that are radical and can truly change the way that the world works thank you Brianna and Vanessa I want to hear about your opinion on this I will just start by saying that when you find yourself in a burning house you do everything you can to run out of that house so it's kind of disturbing for the young people to see that the planet is warming and all the leaders are doing is to fuel to continue fueling the crisis and even make it ban more so I think for me it just really brings a disturbing in my heart to see that homes are being washed away to see that crops are being destroyed to see that people are struggling to have access to clean water and biodiversity getting destroyed because of the actions of our governments the actions of the leaders so I am personally worried about the kind of future that you know we are going into however much people are fighting for the future I think it's important for people to also understand that the present of very many people is catastrophic it's dangerous it's scary so if I have a present that is scary right now what do you expect me to think about the future so I think that's what really pushes young people to demand for justice because they're already seeing a present that is very unpleasant and you cannot convince them that the future is pleasant or beautiful and yet it's what they are walking into we don't walk from destruction to maybe peace just like that yeah when nothing is done about it so if we are seeing destruction then we are going to do everything we can to get something that is much better to get a future that is healthy a future that is sustainable a future that is equitable for all of us yeah and we are fed up with empty promises and we live by some rules so now it's time for action we have a free action state for you to do now for all the people that are watching us right now the first one is to do it for proposing your exam story it's something for the panel usually no more empty promises this is the first option this one so niki it's happening again just pause for a second and let's see if the stream will catch up try again okay um as we are fed up with empty promises and we want to live by example now it's time for action and we have three actions that you can do to all the people that are watching us right now the first one is to tweet or post in your exam stories something about the panel and using the hairstyle no more empty promises and tagging fry for future the second one is follow an activist or a movement that is not from your continent to to continue knowing more people and the third one is to subscribe to our newsletter you have I think you have all the links in the in the chat so yeah you have a lot of actions that you can do now now after this amazing panel and if you are interested to discuss what to do based on everything that was here in this amazing panel this show me a youth organizing in another organization in 2021 and beyond workshop and it's on the left of your screen on the other in online space and right well so I want to say thank you to this amazing panel it was really really amazing and I will let Daniel and Anna explain what is next great um so I just want to say thank you um everyone and maybe I'll just repeat again Nikki some of what you may have just gotten missed um so just again on the bottom of your screen that you're looking at are some uh different actions uh that are being encouraged to do so I'll just say them again so tweet um and they have a hashtag uh there to do that with so hashtag no more empty promises um and to tag uh at Fridays for future um and also to follow activists from another place that was an encouragement um so from another continent another spot when the values of having a global enterprise is the chance to hear but let's not just make it a moment but to continue that so you can go to just recovery gathering dot org slash follow um and then the last thing is an invitation to join fries for future dot org slash newsletter slash subscribe as a way to subscribe um anything else to add from the panelists or anything from you Nikki before we head to the next piece yeah we've had one more action uh about uh writing in a piece of paper uh the world remember the word Daniel just recovery for all yeah just for all you can choose just one letter and send it to the email to the email that a we will share on the screen now great so why don't we just go ahead and I'll close uh this so we'll say thank you to the panelists um thank you so much for joining uh and for your words um and uh and then Nikki you me and Anna uh let's let's pull this off so we're gonna try to set up a um creating a global banner um and it's a little bit in that spirit of um uh I think what was said that uh as folks get older we um we begin to accept uh what is and that that we get we accept what has been the status quo and get used to it and so as an act of solidarity of resistance as an act of statement of who we are and the way that we uh make a choice to continue to resist to continue to believe in everyone um we're going to create a banner uh as a whole global enterprise I love it yeah so this is an example of the kind of banner uh that we're going to create um can you put that back up there's another example uh just to show so uh yeah so this one stop um funding climate criminals and um so what we're going to invite you to do here in a moment um is is each each person you don't have to be super artistic I did this in just a second um but you thank you Anna I really did try my I did try my minimum this will this is my minimum this is my low bar I'll add to this um but all you have to do is just create a a letter like this and uh and then you'll email it and uh we'll flash up the email it's just photos at 350.org and so we'll throw that uh email again so you email take a picture of yourself with a photo like that um and uh and then you'll email it see niki's got the you rocking on yay Anna's slacking on the job uh but the s is in her heart um okay so you have a lot of actions to do you don't have an excuse that's right we're trying to keep you uh from being uh what would be the armchair activists people who just sit and watch like a tv because consumers they they want you to be a consumer and we want you to be an activist so uh exactly so we're inviting a couple of different actions just here as part of our global solidarity and what we'll do um over the next five hours as people are entering into workshops or movement story sessions um uh as we as those things are happening we've got a team who's going to take all these pictures um and put them together into uh a little banner uh so please go ahead and do that um I encourage you to go ahead and do it right now just do a quick photo uh you with a with a letter any of the letters uh and we'll try to spell out just recovery for all that's the plan for the day I also want to just encourage one of the things that I always remember from the climate strikes in September when it was was it last not last year nobody did a big climate strike last year the um 2019 was the fact that loads of people and especially leaders said how much hope and inspiration they got from the youth strikers but it was like why don't you do something with that hope then like when Trudeau joined the climate march in Canada and it was like they don't need you to join the march need you to not buy a pipeline so as well it's like taking loads of hope and inspiration from this panel definitely also think what can you do that is action in solidarity with the with the youth strikers and that yeah speaks to the inspiration that you're feeling so I'm not accusing anyone who's watching you're buying a pipeline but yeah definitely like use your inspiration for what you're doing yeah Justin no more buying pipelines if that's on your to-do list check it off um just don't do it um and also the the theme that was picked up I just want to emphasize that I just I really resonated for me was um the the importance of it it's not just little steps but we're really looking for large structural change and um and one of the pieces of that is understanding the mechanisms of that of what creates large structural change is the driving impetus of people power and so that only happens when we tell our own story of how we create that power so in the some of the sessions that we'll be going into uh there's some phenomenal workshop sessions including like some of the stories of how they've won from U.S. local groups or building climate storytelling as examples of how we we establish and help people to see their own power so that we can be involved in fighting for large-scale structural change rather than changing of light bulbs or minor actions that on their whole donut might make us feel better but are actually covers for how badly we should be feeling and therefore the size of the problem that we should be dealing with so um we're going to head into workshops if you haven't done this before Anna's going to explain how to get right into it. You're going to go to your left and I'm not going to point that way because I keep getting it wrong but where it says Daniel's my glamorous assistant where it says sessions you'll be able to filter which sessions are live now um and then choose from the kind of last heap of amazing content that we've got to you and lots of people have been asking if there's a clash of sessions are they recorded and so all of these big sessions the the kind of panels and the cultural sessions are recorded and then with the other sessions we're recording as many of them as possible but recognizing that we want to do that with consent of the facilitators and the participants so as many as we can but we're not promising all and they'll all be available on the wrap up page and website but we need a few days to like sleep and to figure out figure out what goes where so please sleep. Perfect great so um we're going to open up the sessions now so you'll be able to follow the instructions that Anna just gave you um thank you Nikki thanks for all the panelists um both this panel and all the panelists that have been uh contributing to this it just makes it such a beautiful experience to hear from from such wisdom and such knowledge and such uh passion and so thank you everyone um thank you everyone who is listening in on the conversation this uh whole conversation will also be recorded and we'll be able to put that up later as well so thank you everyone thanks Nikki I'll see you soon Anna. I'll see you later. Bye. Ciao ciao.