{"id":2449799,"date":"2019-10-12T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=314289"},"modified":"2019-10-12T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T21:28:37","slug":"youth-activist-greta-thunberg-tells-colorado-rally-we-are-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/youth-activist-greta-thunberg-tells-colorado-rally-we-are-the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth activist Greta Thunberg tells Colorado rally: \u2018We are the change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls her speech out of a pocket as she steps up to speak to several thousand people at a climate strike rally Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Denver. The rally was staged in Denver’s Civic Center Park. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/strong>
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DENVER (AP) \u2014 Young people must be prepared to continue striking to call for action on climate change for a long time and not back down, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told a climate strike rally in Denver on Friday.<\/p>\n

Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists won\u2019t beg those in power to act because she expects leaders to keep ignoring them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will instead tell them, if they won\u2019t do it, we will,\u201d the 16-year-old said to loud cheers. \u201cThe world is waking up and we are the change. The change is coming whether you like it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thunberg spoke for less than 10 minutes to a crowd of several thousand at Civic Center Park near the state Capitol. The rally highlighted Colorado activists, like Madhvi Chittoor, 8, who has campaigned in the state against plastics.<\/p>\n

Thunberg again scolded leaders for not doing enough to fight climate change and for ignoring science. Echoing a line from an angry speech at the United Nations last month that drew global attention, she said several times of leaders, \u201cHow dare they,\u201d with some in the crowd repeating the line.<\/p>\n

Thunberg began holding solitary demonstrations outside Sweden\u2019s parliament in August 2018, skipping classes once a week to protest climate change.<\/p>\n

Her \u201cFridays for Future\u201d demonstrations have inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to tackle global warming.<\/p>\n

Thunberg\u2019s Denver appearance followed rallies in North Dakota\u2019s Standing Rock Indian Reservation and in Rapid City and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She plans to keep touring the Americas through a U.N. climate conference in Chile in December.<\/p>\n

Thunberg began her remarks Friday by acknowledging that the crowd had gathered on land that once belonged to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes.<\/p>\n

Those attending included fourth graders from the Downtown Denver Expeditionary School who have been studying climate change.<\/p>\n

Zariah Edwards, 9, said she has learned to unplug appliances when she wasn\u2019t using them to save energy. Malisse Doung, also 9, said her class learned how the changing climate is affecting polar bears.<\/p>\n

Ellie Rusinova of Denver was among a group of adults taking photos of Thunberg with their cellphones from the edge of the park\u2019s amphitheater. She said she thought Thunberg\u2019s plain and clear way of speaking was very powerful and captured the feelings of many.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all felt that we need to make a change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls her speech out of a pocket as she steps up to speak to several thousand people at a climate strike rally Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Denver. The rally was staged in Denver’s Civic Center Park. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski) DENVER (AP) \u2014 Young people must be prepared to continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 16:02:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}