David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others I
wonder if anyone other than Kevin Vickers Dominic Cardy or Don Allen
recall my being barred from the UNB Campus and the All Candidates debate
when I ran in Fredericton in 2006 for a seat in the 39th Parliament?
Daniel Nunes, a fourth-year student at UNB, was a lead organizer of the Fridays for Future climate strikes in the area. (Logan Perley/CBC)
Dozens of people gathered at the University of New Brunswick in
Fredericton on Friday as part of a global "climate strike" aimed at
forcing political and industrial leaders around the world to take urgent
action to deal with climate change and to end fossil fuel use.
Similar rallies took place in 150 countries Friday, with students taking time off school and work to attend.
The
day of action in Fredericton started with poetry from Halifax poet and
professor El Jones. The microphone was then opened to any participant
who wanted to share thoughts and messages on climate action.
Daniel Nunes, a fourth-year student at UNB, was a lead organizer for Friday's for Future climate strikes in the area.
"These rallies are is based off an initial movement by Greta Thunberg" he said.
Shelby
Harnish, co-owner of the Veg Out vegan food truck in Fredericton,
closed her food truck to attend the climate strike with her dog. (Logan Perley/CBC)
Thunberg
famously started skipping school last year to demonstrate outside the
parliament of her home country of Sweden, calling on lawmakers for more
action on climate change. She's become a leader in the movement to end
fossil fuel use and will be one of hundreds of young people taking part
in the United Nations's first Youth Climate Summit in New York this
weekend.
"She believes that there's no purpose to getting an
education and getting a degree if the world would already be destroyed
by the time she is old enough to actually use her degree and become a
professional," Nunes said.
"What we wanted to do here in
Fredericton is take Greta's message and kind of just disseminate
it among students and also just provide them a chance to to speak on
climate change to kind of vocalize their concerns."
Nunes
wanted students at the rally to know how important voting and the issue
of climate change are in the federal election coming up Oct. 21.
Election
candidates were invited to speak at the rally and present their
platforms on climate change and how they would increase "climate
literacy," he said.
Two Fredericton election candidates, Liberal Matt DeCourcey and Jenica Atwin of the Green Party, both attended the event.
Shelby
Harnish, the co-owner of local vegan food truck Veg Out, said she
closed her truck for the day to attend the climate strike.
Harnish brought her dog and a placard that read "Stop denying the world is dying."
"I don't think it's a topic that even needs to be debated anymore," she said of climate-change deniers.
David Coon, Green Party MLA for Fredericton South, spoke to the crowd about climate change. (Logan Perley/CBC)
She encouraged people to vote.
"If
you are of age, you need to take it upon yourself to use your power and
to put people in charge who know what is right for our earth right
now."
Fredericton South MLA and Green Party Leader David Coon,
who was also at the rally, said he is inspired by young people talking
about their concerns, since they see "the writing on the wall."
Grand
Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council says Western science
is finally catching up to the philosophies of Indigenous peoples and
realizing it's time to protect the Earth. (Logan Perley/CBC)
"They
know that fundamental change is needed and we've got to start beginning
those steps now to try to implement the actual changes that are
required and do so in a democratic way," Coon said.
"A way that is based
on meeting the needs of our communities and assuring the well-being of
all."
Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council
came to the protest with his two young grandchildren. He said corporate
and political leaders are "gambling with" the children's futures.
"Their mom pulled them out of school just to be here, just to make a statement that their future is so crucial," he said.
Tremblay was
encouraged that people around the world are finally starting to see the
Earth through the same lens as Indigenous people.
"Science is
finally catching up to our philosophies, our theories and our beliefs
about how we need to protect and preserve water, the Earth and the air
for the future generations," said Tremblay, who is also known as
Spasaqsit Possesom.
"Water has life,
and the Earth has life, and the trees and the medicines that grow in it
need to be protected," he said. Indigenous people have held these
beliefs since time immemorial, he said.
Following the rally some of the crowd walked through downtown Fredericton in a march dubbed the "Extinction Rebellion."
Logan
Perley is a Wolastoqi journalist from Tobique First Nation and a casual
reporter at CBC New Brunswick. You can email him at logan.perley@cbc.ca
or follow him on Twitter @LoganPerley.
David Raymond Amos I
wonder if anyone other than Kevin Vickers, Dominic Cardy and Don Allen
recall my being barred from the UNB Campus and the All Candidates debate
when I ran in Fredericton in 2006 for a seat in the 39th Parliament?
David Raymond Amos I
wonder if the Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council
recalls the conversation we had on a bench overlooking the river after
he was in a protest before the election of the 42nd Parliament and who
stopped him from talking to me?
David Raymond Amos Methinks it is not rocket science to understand why Ron Trembaly would support Jenica Atwin of the Green Party, N'esy Pas?
John Holmes
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Please explain your statement. I'm curious as to why you think that.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @John Holmes: She is his daughter
Donald Gallant Those who don’t pay taxes should not be allowed to vote.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Donald Gallant: Everybody pays taxes even those who are not allowed to vote
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Donald Gallant: what next, those who don't pay tax should not be allowed to exist?
Marguerite Deschamps
If we continue to wreak havoc on this planet, soon none of us will exist, taxpayers included.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Excellent observation, David!
JJ Carrier Great
job on the rally, but as a person who covered all the heavy industry
stories in the North Shore from 1986 to John Bennett's recent jail term
for graft at his Belledune site, I'm sorry this never happened years ago
because more events like these are needed to get people informed this
planet is ours, not the makers of plastic or Big Money or foolish
politicians...Making up for the failures of the previous generation
should be the goal of every young person...This on-going increase on the
world stage among the youth is comparable to start of the Greenpeace
years.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier: Yea right
Terry
Tibbs Isn't it just great, watching our young people being exploited..........
Though it was a fine day out, winter is coming, a good day to phone in well to work/school.
Oh yes, you are making a difference, and proving once again you are no different.
Roy Nicholl
Reply to @Terry Tibbs:
Perhaps we can demonstrate to them the loss of becoming jaded and personally defeated ;-)
John Holmes
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: Exploited by who? The secret Green Cabal? Militant tree huggers
and Radical Vegan extremists? Please detail who is responsible for this
exploitation, and while you're at it, explain how those exploiters
benefit from doing it.
Terry
Tibbs
Reply to @John Holmes:
Exploited by politicians using the very inexact science of climate change to literally pick our pockets.
If you have any age to you, first the ice caps were melting, and we were
to be waist deep in water. Then they were freezing and an ice age was
upon us. Now we have come back full circle and we are warming again.
But as I said, nothing was lost, the day was outstanding, and winter will soon be upon us, so get out and get it while you can.
Terry
Tibbs
Reply to @Roy Nicholl:
Jaded by politicians who have weaponized the inexact science of climate
change to pick our pockets? You bet, and when they are working, and
paying their own way, they are more than welcome to decide.
Personally defeated? Not on your life. I've worked hard my whole life
and I have enough to do what I want, when I want, any time I want.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: I concur
John Holmes
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: No answer to my questions? I thought you might actually have
answers before posting on the public record.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @John Holmes:
Sure I answered your questions........ my questions to you, is reading
your "trouble", or is it comprehension that gives you difficulty?
Mo Bennett don't vote for liberals or reformacons. they will do nothing. vote green, give the planet and yer futures a chance.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @mo bennett:
You mean vote green where the leader jaunts around the country in jet airliners?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @mo bennett: YO Mo tell us another one
Methinks the Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council and
his daughter forgot why I ran against Andy Scott in Fat Fred City for
his seat in the 39th Parliament but his former assistant DeCourcey, his
green meanie buddy and everybody pal Chucky Leblanc certainly have not
N'esy Pas?
McKenzie
King How did all these people get to the protest? Did they come in machines using fossil fuels?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @McKenzie
King: Methinks somebody named after a former liberal prime minister
should be capable of figuring that out N'esy Pas?
What I would like to know is how many dead dinosaurs are in a barrel of
oil and how did they get that deep underground? When we are finally out
of Mother Nature's hair how much oil will she turn us into?
SarahRose Werner The
planet is not dying. Various species that inhabit its surface are
dying. Our own species may eventually be among them, which to my mind
would be well-deserved. But the planet itself will be fine. That said,
I certainly encourage anyone who's eligible to vote to do so.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @SarahRose Werner:
Plus if we do die off, within s billion years another intelligent species will develop. Maybe they will get it right,
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Methinks George Carlin explained that quite well long ago N'esy Pas?
Mike Morton In
approximately 5 billion years the sun will expand and turn into a red
giant. That will destroy the earth, and that is science...
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Mike Morton:
Are sure about that or do you believe everything some professor or good
book tells you? Methinks some folks claim that their god has another
plan and that he created everything in just a week or so Then there is
the big bang theory that I never understood as well N'esy Pas?
I am comfortable admitting that I don't know and definitely don't trust all knowing priests or professors.
“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Marguerite Deschamps
David Raymond Amos said: "Methinks...BS ...N'esy pas?
David Raymond Amos Methinks many would agree that the liberals and the Greens deserve each other N'esy Pas?
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