Basic InfoThe Global Climate Strike and #FridaysForFuture campaign was started by Greta Thunberg -a Swedish climate and environmental activist with Asperger’s- when a photo of her one-person strike outside of the Swedish Parliament in 2018, when Thunberg was 15, gained international recognition. In the year following, Thunberg has continued to speak out on the international stage, and encourages student and youth across the world to strike every Friday to fight for the future of the planet. What You Can do
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Basic InfoThe Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour (SNIWWOC) is a non-profit organization based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are focused on exploring and bringing attention to reproductive justice through food, art, and education. Reproductive justice is a term created by women of colour, that recognizes that struggles for sexual and reproductive rights has to be linked to wider struggles against oppression (racism, sexism, colonization, immigration rights, income, education, etc) that a limit a person's ability to have control over their body. What You Can Do
OrganizationBasic InfoADAPT is a national grassroots community in the United States that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. What You can do
The OrganizationBasic info#Black Lives Matter (BLM) was an online momentum building project created in 2013 by 3 radical black feminists, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, in response to the acquittal of the murderer of Trayvon Martin. This group has over 40 local chapters in cities across Canada and the US and is focused on bringing attention to, and stopping "state" anti-black racism across the world and helping to heal the damage that has been caused to black communities and individuals. WHat you can do
The organizationBasic Info The Women's March was a massive, worldwide protest brought about in the fallout of the election of President Trump on January 21st, 2017. The women-led group has evolved into an intersectional education group that focuses their efforts on lending support to other grassroots causes as well as creating outreach programs and events to strengthen communities through empowering women of all social positions. What you can do
The OrganizationBAsic Info The #NoDAPL protests started in April of 2016 on the Sioux Standing Rock reserve in order to protect the 380 sacred sites and countless ecologically sensitive locations, such as rivers and aquifers, from being destroyed or poisoned by the pipeline. The protestors are based out of Oceti Sakowin, a gathering of many Indigenous Nations on the reserve. US President Donald Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to have the pipeline progress without having the Army Corps of Engineers finish the required Environmental Impact Assessment. The federal courts did declare that action to have been illegal but the DAPL has been running since June 1st of 2017. What you can do
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