Posted on Oct 1, 2023
17-year-old climate activist from Portland joins protest at House speaker’s office
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On Thursday, about 18 young people from the Sunrise Movement were arrested for occupying Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office in Washington D.C. The group was protesting a government shutdown and demanding climate action.
Adah Crandall is a climate activist, organizer with the youth-led Sunrise Movement, and a recent graduate of Grant High School in Portland. She participated in the protest but was not among the people who were arrested during the sit-in outside Speaker McCarthy’s office.
“We stood in the hallway and listened to the echoes of our friends continuing to sing as all of them were arrested,” she said. “Demanding that the GOP not shut down the government and that they act on climate immediately.”
Crandall and other members of the Sunrise Movement traveled this week to D.C. to lobby for the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act. The proposal was reintroduced by Democratic lawmakers Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts on Thursday.
Adah Crandall is a climate activist, organizer with the youth-led Sunrise Movement, and a recent graduate of Grant High School in Portland. She participated in the protest but was not among the people who were arrested during the sit-in outside Speaker McCarthy’s office.
“We stood in the hallway and listened to the echoes of our friends continuing to sing as all of them were arrested,” she said. “Demanding that the GOP not shut down the government and that they act on climate immediately.”
Crandall and other members of the Sunrise Movement traveled this week to D.C. to lobby for the Green New Deal for Public Schools Act. The proposal was reintroduced by Democratic lawmakers Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts on Thursday.
17-year-old climate activist from Portland joins protest at House speaker’s office
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..."The Sunrise Movement is spearheading a campaign to mobilize students at more than 50 high schools around the nation to lobby for passage of the Green New Deal for Schools. Crandall said those local efforts could help build greater grassroots engagement with Gen Z students around the climate crisis.
“At the heart of our theory of change is this idea that we build our power by organizing our communities,” she said. “In the context of the schools campaign, it means talking to every single person that we go to school with. It means having countless conversations and connecting with people and building relationships and finding out what each person’s stake is in this fight because everyone has a stake in stopping the climate crisis even if they don’t know it yet.”
At 17, Crandall has been working on climate issues for several years, including helping organize a campaign while she was a sophomore at Grant High that called for a moratorium on freeway expansion in the Portland metro area. The Sunrise Movement held frequent rallies in front of the Oregon Department of Transportation for months.
“We need to organize every student across race and across class,” she said. “We’re showing communities that the Green New Deal is something that can make a tangible impact in their lives. And it’s not just this big bill in Congress.”
..."The Sunrise Movement is spearheading a campaign to mobilize students at more than 50 high schools around the nation to lobby for passage of the Green New Deal for Schools. Crandall said those local efforts could help build greater grassroots engagement with Gen Z students around the climate crisis.
“At the heart of our theory of change is this idea that we build our power by organizing our communities,” she said. “In the context of the schools campaign, it means talking to every single person that we go to school with. It means having countless conversations and connecting with people and building relationships and finding out what each person’s stake is in this fight because everyone has a stake in stopping the climate crisis even if they don’t know it yet.”
At 17, Crandall has been working on climate issues for several years, including helping organize a campaign while she was a sophomore at Grant High that called for a moratorium on freeway expansion in the Portland metro area. The Sunrise Movement held frequent rallies in front of the Oregon Department of Transportation for months.
“We need to organize every student across race and across class,” she said. “We’re showing communities that the Green New Deal is something that can make a tangible impact in their lives. And it’s not just this big bill in Congress.”
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