Autumn Peltier, water protector from Manitoulin Island. Tweet added by Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon

Denise Balkissoon

@balkissoon

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Autumn Peltier, water protector from Manitoulin Island.

Native Hope. https://linktr.ee/nativehope

@ProjNativeHope

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"Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old #Anishinaabe girl from #WikwemikongFirstNation , addresses world leaders at the #UnitedNations about protecting water." To read more:

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Denise Balkissoon

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I've been thinking/reading a lot about Greta Thunberg and whiteness. I find her very moving, I believe she is genuine and I hope she can resist becoming a symbol for corporate greenwashing. Here is a thread of other young people to listen to as well.

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Denise Balkissoon

@balkissoon

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I also use Greta's name to get people's attention. In this, I talk to youth across the country, in BC, MB, ON and NS including Miyâwata Stout, a Cree 12-year-old.

Teen activist Greta Thunberg and the climate-change generation flip their desks

Last August, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school one Friday, for the first time, to sit alone outside the Swedish Parliament, calling it a strike against climate change. Since then, tens of...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Denise Balkissoon

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Ridhima Pandey, 11, of India, and Carl Smith, 17, Yupik of Alaska, two of 16 youth (incl GT) that have filed a landmark UN complaint against five of the world's biggest carbon polluters.

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Denise Balkissoon

@balkissoon

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Other plaintiffs are interviewed here, from Cape Town, the Marshall Islands, Palau and Nigeria. They want the climate crisis to be declared a children's rights crisis.

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Denise Balkissoon

@balkissoon

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Artemisa Xakriabá, who lives in the Brazilian Amazon, also spoke in NYC last Friday. “If it goes on like this, 20 years from now my house will become a desert and my people will be at risk of becoming history.”

Youth Activists Call for Urgent Climate Action - Eos

Greta Thunberg and other youth climate activists came to Washington, D.C., days before a major United Nations conference to draw attention to the need for immediate action to address climate change.

eos.org

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Denise Balkissoon

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You get the point. Climate change is already hurting racialized and Indigenous communities most of all, and climate justice means prioritizing their voices. And one teenager shouldn't be made to carry the world on her shoulders, anyway.

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Denise Balkissoon

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Another young person who's been demanding climate justice for years

Mari Copeny

@LittleMissFlint

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No, our fight to save the planet didn't start today with the #ClimateStrike and it doesn't end today either. Many of us have been putting in the work for years to save our planet. Don't just amplify our voices today, but every day and support our solutions to save us.

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@balkissoon Autumn or any genuin voice demanding anything they have a right to , is equally precious but PLEASE do not mistake or compare ! Greta, for whatever reason, voiced the Gravity of the Big Picture, globaly, & echoed voice of all Pelteirs !! without being a saint or ...

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