February 27, 2025
Students strike at 200 universities demanding climate treaty compliance
Students strike at 200 universities demanding climate action
🌱Environment🤝Civic Action🎓Education
On 2025-02-27 at noon, students in 200 U.S. colleges walked out to demand U.S. re-entry to the Paris Climate Accord (ClimateNow press)
The #ClimateNow walkout toolkit spotlighted the Clean Competition Act (S. 1423) as the bipartisan carbon-fee bill students urged the Senate to pass (Senate release)
Givebutter’s public dashboard recorded USD 480,000 raised for a bail fund supporting arrested activists (Campaign page)
Fox News ran a chyron reading “GREEN INDOCTRINATION ON CAMPUS” during its coverage of the protests (Media Matters clip)
RMI’s Subsidy Snapshot estimates USD 58 million per day in implicit fossil-fuel subsidies students demanded be re-allocated (RMI brief)
About 3,000 Minnesota high-school students encircled the State Capitol in St. Paul on 2025-02-27 (MPR News)
🌱Environment🤝Civic Action🎓Education
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What media strategy mistake do most student movements make that limits their political impact?
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Complete this analysis of climate policy leverage: When students organize _____ protests, they create _____ pressure that forces legislators to respond because politicians fear _____ consequences if they ignore organized _____ sentiment.
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Republican support for carbon pricing shows that climate action can be genuinely bipartisan when policies are designed to appeal to conservative economic principles.
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The Paris Agreement works through peer pressure rather than enforcement. When the US withdraws, what actually happens to global climate commitments?
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Order these events in the climate activism timeline that led to the #ClimateNow walkouts
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