“Youths raise voices in climate crisis for people of color like themselves”

Quaker testimony calls us to be good stewards. The following feature story published by the non-partisan, non-profit news group, Maryland Matters, speaks to such stewardship.

From Maryland Matters

[Reposted with permission]

Hannah Choi leads chants at a BIPOC Green New Deal protest in September 2023 against diesel school buses. Photo by Jim Driscoll.

“Every Tuesday evening, Hannah Choi jumps online to join two-dozen high school students for lessons in advocacy.

They are all interns with BIPOC [biracial, indigenous, people of color] Montgomery County Green New Deal, a program created by the nonprofit National Institute for Peer Support, which organizes the weekly training workshops. It’s here where Choi and her peers learn to strategize to advance the environmental and social change they want to see.

“Overall, it has inspired me to become more politically active in my community, and more aware of what’s … CONTINUE READING. 


 

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