Sun Rise Movement Protestors Marching On the White House
We Are Marching On the Whitehouse
Today we are showing up to the Whitehouse telling Biden that our future is not negotiable. Sunrisers from all across the country are delivering a clear message to President Biden: stop negotiating with the party of violent insurrectionists and make good on your promise to young people by fully funding the Civilian Climate the Sunrisemovement website states its mission.
The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.
WHY ARE YOUNG PEOPLE INTERRUPTING THE SLEEP OF LOCAL POLITICIANS?
Because it works.
Believe it or not, these tactics are over a century old, inspired by the Wide Awakes, a pro-abolition mass youth movement in the 1860s (right before the Civil War) who turned anti-abolition representatives’ lives into waking nightmares by banging pots and pans outside their windows.
These young people grew up in a world as similarly fraught and polarized as our own. We were born into crisis, inheriting a failing world. We tried signing petitions. We tried calling and visiting government offices. Through it all, most politicians ignored us. Now, we’re taking actions they cannot ignore. Our generation is done asking nicely.
Sunrisers are marching over 600 miles across the Gulf South and California to win a robust Civilian Climate Corps.
The Sunrise Movement is getting into motion for our Good Jobs for All Campaign: Our members are marching 400 miles from New Orleans to Houston in the Gulf South and 266 miles from Paradise to San Francisco in California. The paths and stories are different, but the heart of each march beats the same. In May and June, members of the Gulf South and California hubs will march across the country, meet community members most impacted by the climate crisis, host visioning sessions about the Green New Deal future, and tell the stories of young people fighting to live right now through continuous climate and pollution disasters. We’re marching to demonstrate the urgency of the climate and economic crisis, and the need for Congress and Biden to pass an ambitious Civilian Climate Corps as a part of the American Jobs Plan by the end of Summer 2021 as an immediate and first-step solution.