National Student Power Summit 2016

This month, we reached a historic and devastating milestone in the fight for our planet’s future. For the first time, the average global temperatures have reached 2º higher than average - which has long been held as the marker for catastrophic climate change.
We are a group of students and organizers working on building power at the local, statewide, regional and national level, and rooting our work in an understanding that the climate crisis is merely a symptom of the underlying systemic inequality that manifests in our communities. Through a diverse set of strategies — ranging from policy proposals, to organizing in-person convenings, to taking escalated direct action — young people are engaging in work that shifts the power and ensures that climate justice is a top priority for movements for justice.
In this breakout, we will hear stories about movement-building work happening in a number of areasstates on intersecting issues. By digging into case studies, and holding space for questions and conversation about the relationship between climate justice and other social justice issues, we hope to provide a deepened analysis and talk about how we can be putting climate justice front and center in the work we do.