Youths Strike Around the World!

Thousands of teens mob City Hall! Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks! JaneUnchained News in front of City Hall in Los Angeles with the Youth Climate Marchers of Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles. Vegans, environmentalists, conservationists, animal rights advocates, indigenous warriors, and climate crisis fighters showed up today for climate justice!

Students gathered in record numbers around the world in over 150 countries. The United States was no exception as The Global Youth Climate Strike week began in cities across the country from September 20th-27th. In Downtown, Los Angeles alone as the Vegan Flag soared high, an estimated 15,000 people, mostly comprised of youths, gathered in to commence The Youth Climate Strike Week in LA! They are taking a stand to demand we save our planet by implementing sustainable practices and ending practices that are not. There were inspirational speakers who spoke about dismantling corporate interests and ending oil drilling. There were singers who sang moving songs. Even the iconic celebrity activist Jane Fonda was inspired to be there by Greta Thunberg and she gave a revolutionary speech!

We were so thrilled to see so many people holding vegan signs around the world. After all, animal agriculture is responsible for approximately 18 percent of greenhouse gasses which cause global warming. This is more than the whole transportation industry combined at 13 percent. We hope that anyone who wants to save the planet will realize that they must be vegan to accomplish this goal.

Overall, this event was incredibly well-orchestrated. These students were able to flood the streets of downtown. They even had the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, come down the steps of City Hall to address their concerns! He was incredibly impressed and said he would do everything in his power to make Los Angeles less dependant on fossil fuels, especially concerning the oil drilling happening right in the city!

Now we need to make the message loud and clear that people can help save our planet by living a vegan lifestyle. These youths are our future, and the future must be vegan if we are to have a future at all! Hopefully, all of these youths will follow the path of the vegan spokesperson for the movement, Greta Thunberg, and align what is on their plates with values. Great job kids and we will be excited to see you all fight for your futures this week and many more to come!

Youth Climate Strike and animal agriculture representatives are welcome to respond at any time.

Students held strikes all over the US including Athens, Georgia, Oakland, Califonia, and Orlando, Florida to name a few where we had JaneUnchained contributors covering them!

Paige Parsons Roache reports LIVE for JaneUnChained.com

Photos courtesy of Jane Velez-Mitchell and Climate Strike LA’s Instagram page.

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Check out The US Youth Climate Strike website for more information and how to get involved!