Strike In not Out
On Friday, September 20th the Woodstock Union High School students participated in climate change workshops to raise awareness about the severity of climate change. WUHS students decided to have a teach-in rather than a climate strike as a way to educate students as a part of the international youth climate strike.
“I thought it was a huge success, I was really surprised to see the wide range of students participating in the workshops,” Erica Kurash, one of the organizers of the event says.
Another leader in the Climate Change Event was Noah Anderson, he helped lead and plan workshops. He was 2nd in command after Erica, he called himself a “Support Line”. “My workshop (Activism) consisted of a lot of independent work time,” Noah said.
Overall Noah thinks that the workshops went really well and definitely brought awareness to some students about how serious this crisis truly is. “I do believe that in my lifetime I will experience major changes.” Noah says.
Zoe Montag watched climate change movie The Human Element with a large number of other students. “I learned that pollution is affecting kids with asthma by making it worse for them, the kids had to take meds 5-6 times a day because it was so bad as well as go to different schools.”
Maria Sell went to the Fast Fashion workshop. “I took away that fast fashion was more than purchasing new clothes each season”. She also says that there is so much more that you can do rather than just throw your old clothes away. Instead they can be repaired, given to a friend or donated.
Maddie Rieger led one of the middle school workshops ”I learned a lot about how the middle school was very aware with what's going on currently with our climate,” she says. She thinks that it's really good that our younger generation is aware of what's going on. “I realized how hard it was to get the middle schoolers to talk and you have to break them into smaller groups in order to get them to communicate.”
WIth workshops covering topics like, The Minimalist Life, Activism, Fast Fashion, BioDiversity, and Pollution, there was something for everyone.