Greta Thunberg joins LA protest of oil drilling

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


BY JOHN ROGERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
OCTOBER 31, 2019 10:03 PM, UPDATED 2 HOURS 1 MINUTE AGO

LOS ANGELES
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl who accused international leaders of standing idly by as global warming threatens to destroy the planet in a speech shared around the world is joining young activists in Los Angeles for a protest aimed at getting California out of the oil-drilling business.

Thunberg is the scheduled keynote speaker at Friday's downtown rally organized by Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles as part of an effort to have the state put more restrictions on oil extraction, especially in densely populated urban neighborhoods like those dotting Los Angeles and surrounding cities.

"Our goal is to shut down oil wells that are around communities where people are suffering," said 17-year-old Kailynn Cruz, lead organizer of the protest that plans a march from City Hall to Gov. Gavin Newsom's Los Angeles office. Protesters want California, one of the nation's largest oil-producing states, to eventually end petroleum extraction.

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After members of her group saw Thunberg lead thousands in a global-warming protest last month in New York they decided to invite her to Los Angeles.

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[Magoo48]

1. Great to have Greta here in SoCal.

I’m baffled how little recognition Greta receives here on DU. If Democrats don’t realize the necessity of viewing all the worlds pressing issues through the lens of impending Climate Catastrophe, then the entire US political system is useless in regards to humanity’s future.

We are going to win the upcoming election, but if we’re saddled with vulture-corporate-capitalism, extraction-business as usual economy, then we are still faced with global systems collapse in the quite near future.

Sadly, of the candidates remaining with a chance, I see only two who are even nominally committed to the massive climate action needed.

[real Cannabis calm]

2. K&R