Earth Strike is an international

grassroot A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to effect change at t ...

s movement that called for a global

general strike A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large co ...

for

climate action Climate change mitigation is action to limit climate change by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases or removing those gases from the atmosphere. The recent rise in global average temperature is mostly caused by emissions from fossil fuels b ...

. Their aim was a global general strike lasting from 20 until 27 September 2019. The movement has had public support from organizations including

Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk o ...

and

Fridays for Future School Strike for Climate ( sv, Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday ...

, as well as public figures including

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...

. The Earth Strikes were part of the worldwide

September 2019 climate strikes The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate change, which took place from 20–27 September 2019. The strikes' k ...

, which gathered millions of protesters. An estimated 6 million people participated in strikes worldwide from 20–27 September. Youth environmental activist

Greta Thunberg Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Thunberg's activism began when she persuaded ...

spoke in New York on the 20 September strike and Montreal on the 27 September strike.

History

Earth Strike was founded on 10 November 2018 after a user on the

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r/Chomsky called for a "General Strike to Save The Planet". The post quickly gathered attention within Reddit, and the r/EarthStrike subreddit was formed to organise a general strike. The initial protests were held on 15 January 2019, with 27 September being announced as the date for the "Earth Strike". General strikes in Iceland in 1975 and India in 2019 were cited as inspirations.

UK actions

The UK General Strike for Climate was planned for .

Endorsements

Trade unions * The

University and College Union The University and College Union (UCU) is a British trade union in further and higher education representing over 120,000 academics and support staff. UCU is a vertical union representing casualised researchers and teaching staff, "permanent" ...

(UCU) * The

Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1847 in Manchester, it represents workers in the food industry. History The union dates its origin to 1847. The Manchester Friendly Association ...

(BFAWU) * IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus *

International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); german: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), link=no; es, Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI), link=no. is the world's largest trade union federation. History The federation w ...

(ITUC) Politicians *

Alex Sobel Alexander David Sobel (born 26 April 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West since the 2017 general election. He defeated the Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland, wh ...

MP * Julie Ward MEP *

Patrick Harvie Patrick Harvie (born 18 March 1973) is a Scottish politician who has served as Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights since 2021. He has served as one of two co-leaders of the Scottish Greens since 2008, and is on ...

MSP *

Monica Lennon Monica Lennon (' Ward; born 7 January 1981) is a Scottish politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party, she has served in various roles ...

MSP *

Alison Johnstone Alison Johnstone (born 11 October 1965) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament since 2021. Elected as a member of the Scottish Greens, she relinquished her party affiliation on becoming Presid ...

MSP *

Neil Findlay Neil Findlay (born 6 March 1969) is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 2011 to 2021. A member of Scottish Labour, he was previously a councillor in West Lothian from 2003 to 2012. Early l ...

MSP *

John Finnie John Bradford Finnie (born 31 December 1956) is a Scottish Greens politician. He was the Green Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 2016 up until 2021, having previously sat as a Scottish National P ...

MSP International organisations *

Campaign against Climate Change The Campaign against Climate Change (variously abbreviated to CCC or CaCC) is a UK-based pressure group that aims to raise public awareness of anthropogenic climate change through mobilising mass demonstrations. Founded in 2001 in response to ...

Youth Strike 4 Climate School Strike for Climate ( sv, Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday ...

350.org 350.org is an international environmental organization addressing the climate crisis. Its stated goal is to end the use of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy by building a global, grassroots movement. The 350 in the name stands fo ...

* Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD) * ActionAid International *

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

Avaaz Avaaz is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization launched in January 2007 that promotes global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, and conflict. In 2012, ''The Guardian'' referred to Avaaz as ...

* CAN International *

Change.org Change.org is a worldwide nonprofit petition website, based in California, US, operated by the San Francisco-based company of the same name, which has over 400 million users and offers the public the ability to promote the petitions they care abo ...

* Demand Climate Justice * Earth Strike *

Friends of the Earth International Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split with ...

* Fund our Future *

Global Forest Coalition The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is a coalition of NGOs and indigenous peoples organizations engaged in the global policy debate related to forests. History The Global Forest Coalition was set up in 2000 by 19 groups from all over the world. ...

* GreenFaith *

Greenpeace International Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to ...

* Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) * Indigenous Environment Network (IEN) * International Student Environmental Coalition * Oil Change International * Open.net * Our Kids' Climate *

Oxfam Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Co ...

* Pan African Climate Justice Alliance * Parents for Future Global * War on Want * World Wide Fund for Nature International (WWF) * Yes! 4 Humanity Notable public figures *

Naomi Klein Naomi A. Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism ...

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...

* Natalie Wynn Local organizations Pacific, Australia, New Zealand * Tipping Point * School Strike for Climate NZ * School Strike for Climate Australia * 350 Australia
350 Aotearoa
*

Regenesis ''ReGenesis'' is a Canadian science-fiction television series produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons from 2004 to 2008, revolves around the scientists of No ...

* New England Worker's Party Asia * Aksyon Klima *

Alyansa Tigil Mina Alyansa Tigil Mina (abbreviated as ATM, ) is an environmental advocacy organization that campaigns to protect communities and the environment from the ill effects of large-scale mining operations in the Philippines. It is a coalition composed of n ...

* AGHAM Science & Technology for the People * Agham Youth * Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development * 350 Pilipinas * 350 East Asia * Lilok Foundation * Powershift Nepal * Nepalese Youth For Climate Action * Waterkeepers Bangladesh * A SEED JAPAN * e-shift * NGO FoE Japan * NPO Kiko Network * CAN-Japan * Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) * Greenpeace Japan * Green Alliance Japan * Renewable Energy Institute * Citizen's Alliance for Saving the Atmosphere and the Earth (CASA) * Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. * PUP SEED Network * No Burn Pilipinas * Break Free From Plastics * Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment * Ecological Justice League of Youth Leaders * KAISA UP * University of the Philippines Diliman Student Council * Youth Strike for Climate PH * Center for Environmental Concerns * Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) * Buklod Tao * Center for Energy Ecology and Development * Penuel School of Theology * Sanlakas * Power 4 People Coalition * Global Catholic Climate Movement Philippines (GCCM-PH) *

League of Filipino Students The League of Filipino Students ( fil, Kapisanan ng mga Pilipinong Mag-Aaral}, abbreviated as LFS) is a student-led national democratic mass organization and movement organized during the martial law era in the Philippines on September 11, 1977. ...

Kabataan Partylist Kabataan, also known as the Kabataan Partylist (KPL, ) and formerly known as Ang Nagkakaisang Kabataan Para sa Sambayanan (ANAK ng BAYAN, ), is a partylist in the Philippines affiliated with the leftist political coalition Makabayan. It is curre ...

* Safehouse Infoshop * Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century * Citizen for No Coal in Sodegaura (そでがうらしみんがのぞむせいさくけんきゅうかい) * Citizen's Nuclear Information Center * Protect Our Winters Japan * Healthcare Without Harm (HCWH) * SPARK – Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan * Sloth Club * Peace Boat * Sapiens Foundation Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia * 350 Ukraine * Ecoaction * Ekoltava * UYCA * Sweet Osvit * Fridays For Future Ukraine * O.ZERO * One Planet * U-Cycle Europe * Klimastreik Schweiz * WeMove.eu * Earth Strike NL * FridaysforFuture NL * Teachers for Climate NL *

Code Rood Code Rood (also styled CODE ROOD, Dutch for "Code Red") is a network of climate activists based in the Netherlands. The activists organize large-scale civil disobedience actions in opposition to the fossil fuel industry. Code Rood is horizontall ...

* Fossielvrij NL * Stamp Out Poverty * Europe Beyond Coal * ActionAid France * Adéquations * Alternatiba / ANV-COP 21 * Amis de la Terre France * Association l’Âge de faire * ATD Quart Monde * Attac France * BUND * BUND Jugend *

Campact Campact is a German non-governmental organization that aims at creating political pressure in a wide variety of issues through mass digital mobilization. The origins of the organisation and of the first activists are in the anti-nuclear- and ...

* Collectif des Associations Citoyennes * Cap ou pas cap * Carre Geo&Environnement * CCFD-Terre Solidaire * Chrétiens Unis pour la Terre * Citoyens Pour le Climat * CliMates * Colibris * Collectif Gilets Jaunes Argenteuil * Comité pour le Respect des Libertés et des Droits de l’Homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT) * Confédération paysanne * Coordination EAU Île-de-France * CRID * CSP75/CISPM * E-Graine * Enseignant.e.s. pour la planète * Étudiants et Développement * Fédération des Tunisiens pour une Citoyenneté des deux Rives (FTCR) * Fondation Danielle Mitterrand * Fondation ELYX * Fondation Nicolas Hulot * Greenpeace France * Greenpeace Germany * Immigration Développement Démocratie * Ingénieurs sans frontières * Klima-Allianz * La Mine * Le Début des Haricots * Ligue des droits de l’Homme * Mouvement de la Paix * Mouvement Utopia * MRAP (Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples) *

NABU Nabu ( akk, cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû syr, ܢܵܒܼܘܼ\ܢܒܼܘܿ\ܢܵܒܼܘܿ Nāvū or Nvō or Nāvō) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom. Etymology and meaning The Akkadian "nab� ...

* NAJU Jugend *

Naturfreunde Friends of Nature (international abbreviation: NFI, for German: Naturfreunde International) is a non-profit organisation with a background in the social democratic movement, which aims to make the enjoyment of nature accessible to the wider commun ...

* Naturfreunde Jugend * Notre Affaire À Tous * ODASS * Oxfam France * RADSI Nouvelle-Aquitaine * REFEDD * Réseau Foi et Justice Afrique Europe * ResiWay * Sciences Citoyennes * Sherpa * SOL * Alternatives Agroécologiques et Solidaires * Together for Future * Umwelt Institut * Un Climat de Changement * Union des Tunisiens pour l’Action Citoyenne (Utac) * Union syndicale Solidaires * Unis Pour Le Climat * Urbamonde * WWF Jugend * Workers For Future France * Youth For Climate France * ZEA Africa * Fridays For Future Uganda * 350 Africa * AfrikaVuka Latin America * 350.org America Latina North America *

Sunrise Movement Sunrise Movement is an American 501(c)(4) political action organization that advocates political action on climate change. When launched in 2017, the movement's goal was to elect proponents of renewable energy in the 2018 midterm elections, fi ...

* Peoples Climate Movement * Oil Change International * Indigenous Environmental Network * Center for Biological Diversity *

Greenpeace USA Greenpeace USA is the United States affiliate of Greenpeace, Greenpeace International, an environmental nonprofit organization that spawned a social movement inspired by direct actions on the high seas to stop whaling and nuclear testing. Headqua ...

* Amazon Watch * 350.org * 350 Canada * Friends of the Earth U.S. * Food and Water Watch * Elected Officials to Protect America * People's Action * STAND.earth * 350 PDX * 350Kishwaukee (Illinois) * Sierra Club * Earth Strike Canada * MN350 * Climate Justice Alliance * The Climate Mobilization * Progressive Democrats of America * Parents For Future Seattle * The Climate Reality Project * March for Science * NextGen America * Our Children's Trust * Climate Reality Youth Working Group * Seventh Generation * Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics * 198 methods * Rock the Earth (LCV Education Fund) * Rootskeeper * Center for Popular Democracy * Labor Network for Sustainability * Hip Hop Caucus * GreenFaith * La Planète s’invite au Parlement * Women's March * Climate Guides / Youth4Nature * Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) *

Moms Clean Air Force Moms Clean Air Force is a nonprofit, grassroots environmentalism, environmental advocacy group, based in the United States, which focuses on protecting children from air pollution. It has chapters in 26 states and more than a million members, an ...

* Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. * Our Children's Trust * ''No Kill Magazine'' * 350 Charlotte (NC, USA) * David Gibson for US Senate * Mobilized.news * The New School * Blue Future * Peoples Climate Movement NY

Days of action

* 19 July 2019 - Youth Strike for Climate * August 2019 - Climate protest * 20 September 2019 - General Strike for Climate

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Earth Strike 2019 protests 2019 in the environment Climate change and society Environmental protests Direct action General strikes International climate change organizations

History

UK actions

Endorsements

Days of action

See also

References

External links