{"id":37696,"date":"2019-09-20T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37696"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:44:23","slug":"2020-climate-change-forum-and-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/20\/2020-climate-change-forum-and-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Climate Change Forum and Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Climate activists are holding their annual Climate Change Forum.&nbsp; This year it&#8217;s at Georgetown University.&nbsp; Democratic candidates for President are keynote speakers.&nbsp; Also today, students and their supporters all over the world are cutting class to protest for climate change.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0920Forum\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0920Forum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0920Forum.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"391\">  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/9\/5\/20849548\/msnbc-climate-town-hall-2020-democrats-bill-weld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC<\/a> is hosting a televised climate change forum this week with 12 candidates running for president in 2020. The event is split across September 19 and September 20 and will cap the network\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/climate-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate in Crisis<\/a>\u201d series, a week of dedicated programming on climate change. MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Chris Hayes will be questioning the contenders and fielding questions from young voters in the audience.  <\/p>\n<p>The forum will be held at <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.georgetown.edu\/climateforum2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgetown University<\/a> and is also sponsored by Our Daily Planet and New York magazine. It comes after CNN held an unprecedented seven-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/9\/5\/20850009\/cnn-climate-town-hall-2020-presidential-democrats-winners-and-losers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change town hall<\/a> with 2020 Democratic presidential contenders earlier this month\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Notably, five prominent Democratic candidates will be absent from the MSNBC forum: former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and former Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/9\/18\/20868891\/msnbc-climate-town-hall-2020-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Liz made a big mistake by opting out.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the complete video for Day 1 and Day 2.&nbsp; Overall, I think it will be about eighteen hours total, and I suggest that you skip around and watch what interests you.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aV03QZRvjVE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Live: MSNBC\u2019s Climate Forum 2020 (DAY 1)<\/a> (9 hrs. 6 min.)  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aV03QZRvjVE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think Bernie Sanders was the star. His segment begins at about 4:00:00.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wZOpNa41GOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch live: MSNBC\u2019s Climate Forum 2020 (DAY 2)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wZOpNa41GOM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is still live and I have not had time to watch it, yet.&nbsp; On to the protests.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0920Strike\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0920Strike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0920Strike.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\">  <\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of high school students concerned about climate change planned to let their feet do the talking Friday in a nationwide walkout of classes to join <a href=\"https:\/\/globalclimatestrike.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Climate Strike<\/a> marches.  <\/p>\n<p>Organizers said protesters would be turning out in 156 countries from such disparate locations as Nepal, Senegal, Quebec, Rome, Kyrgyzstan, Sweden, Bolivia and Peru\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026<strong>&#8216;It&#8217;s our future that&#8217;s at stake&#8217;<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/09\/19\/climate-strike-us-students-skip-school-fight-climate-change\/2368349001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US students plan to skip school Friday to fight climate &#8217;emergency&#8217;<\/a> The days of protest are an effort to coordinate different groups for different actions in different countries. Supporters who were backing The Global Climate Strike on Friday planned to join Earth Strike, another worldwide effort, in one week.  <\/p>\n<p>The face of the worldwide effort is Swedish climate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/09\/18\/greta-thunberg-6-things-know-climate-change-activist\/2358463001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activist Greta Thunberg<\/a>, 16, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2019\/08\/28\/greta-thunberg-completes-atlantic-ocean-voyage-un-climate-meeeting\/2139310001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came to New York on a solar-powered sailboat<\/a> to attend the strike in New York City and then the summit.  <\/p>\n<p>While Thunberg is not the organizer, she is a major motivating force. She gave the global movement a push starting in August 2018 when she began skipping school on Fridays to stand outside the Swedish parliament holding a sign protesting inaction on climate change&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/09\/20\/global-climate-strike-students-school-walkout-new-york-chicago-san-francisco\/2373323001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vznT5nVOZgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greta Thunberg To Congress: &#8216;I Want You To Listen To The Scientists&#8217;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vznT5nVOZgw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the kids, and especially to Greta!&nbsp; This is the only earth we&#8217;ve got.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate activists are holding their annual Climate Change Forum.&nbsp; This year it&#8217;s at Georgetown University.&nbsp; Democratic candidates for President are keynote speakers.&nbsp; Also today, students and their supporters all over the world are cutting class to protest for climate change. MSNBC is hosting a televised climate change forum this week with 12 candidates running for <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/20\/2020-climate-change-forum-and-protests\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}