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“Laws are going to be the way we change this because people don’t change on their own,” said Jared Schumaker, Chair of the Madison chapter of the Climate Reality Project.
City determines next steps after strike By Allison Garfield CITY NEWS EDITOR
Thousands of people showed up to Madison’s climate strike last Friday to support various local organizations that hosted
the protest. Though, one question lingers on many local activists’ minds: What next? Protest leaders demanded local county and city govern-
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ments declare climate emergencies and put in place comprehensive policies to combat the climate crisis. One organization involved in the strike, NextGen Wisconsin, took the energy from students and the public and redirected it toward the polls. They spoke to hundreds of students, said State Director Hannah Marcus — and even got 120 people registered to vote. “Madison itself has seen climate change-related events in the past couple of years,” Marcus said, referencing the city’s severe flooding last year and environmental consequences of Madison Gas and Electric’s power plant fire. “It’s a safety concern for the commu-
nity of Madison and the community of the world.” Marcus said the Madison chapter of NextGen has yet to work with city officials, but they do “support organizations that put pressure on local government to set standards.” Jared Schumacher, Chair of the Madison chapter of the Climate Reality Project, noted several obstacles in planning and implementing the strike: lack of communication between organizations, difficulty finding funding from local businesses and — mainly — how to make the momentum from the strike last. Schumacher discussed it with the Youth Climate Action Team, a youth-run organization
who took the lead in planning the Madison climate strike. “There’s no one good answer and there’s no one overarching answer,” Schumacher said. “I think that’s what we need. This shouldn’t be the last strike because this isn’t something that’s going to be solved in six months and this isn’t something that’s going to be solved by the U.N. climate summit going on now.” Schumacher noted some difficult financial aspects to the strike, mainly that organizations want to get as many donations as possible due to already tight budgets, he also said many were willing to chip in. For example, Salvatore’s
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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”