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riversedge

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Sat Apr 29, 2017, 02:17 PM Apr 2017

The kids suing Donald Trump are marching to the White House

Really smart kids---lots of infor at link.


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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141763450#post12








Nine-year-old Levi Draheim, center, shown on the Washington Metro, is among the 21 young people suing for a right to a future that isn't wrecked by climate change.
Nine-year-old Levi Draheim, center, shown on the Washington Metro, is among the 21 young people suing for a right to a future that isn't wrecked by climate change.



The kids suing Donald Trump are marching to the White House




http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/29/politics/sutter-climate-kids-march-washington/index.html
By John D. Sutter, CNN

Updated 1:24 PM ET, Sat April 29, 2017

"John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion who focuses on climate change and social justice. Follow him on Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook or subscribe to his email newsletter. "

Washington (CNN)A 16-year-old walked up to the microphone.
"The state of the planet is unraveling all around us because of our addiction to fossil fuels," Xiuhtezcatl Martinez said at the steps of the US Supreme Court this week. "For the last several decades, we have been neglecting the fact that this is the only planet that we have and that the main stakeholders in this issue (of climate change) are the younger generation. Not only are the youth going to be inheriting every problem that we see in the world today -- after our politicians have been long gone -- but our voices have been neglected from the conversation.

"Our politicians are no longer representing our voices."

So, what's a voiceless kid to do?

How about sue President Donald Trump and his administration -- and then march to the White House?

Martinez is one of 21 young people taking Trump and members of his administration to federal court over inaction on global warming. On Saturday, several of these "climate kid' plaintiffs -- the youngest is 9 -- will walk alongside the chanting and sign-pumping adults at the March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington. That demonstration is a call for a clean energy revolution, and it's expected to draw thousands. Perhaps fittingly, local forecasts call for potentially record-setting temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Demonstrators plan to converge on the White House.

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