Fire Drill Fridays: We have a Climate Emergency - greenpeace.org

Fire Drill Fridays: We have a Climate Emergency - Greenpeace USA

Fire Drill Fridays

The science is clear — we need to rapidly phase out destructive fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal) and start investing aggressively in a just transition to renewable energy.

Fire Drill Fridays invites lifelong activists and new climate advocates to take action for a cleaner, greener, more just world. The future of our planet depends on us.

As climate activist Greta Thunberg said, “Our house is on fire” — and we need to act like it.

Inspired by Greta and the youth climate strikes, Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays, and Randall Robinson’s anti-apartheid protests, actor and activist, Jane Fonda, launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF) in collaboration with Greenpeace USA in October 2019. Starting in Washington, D.C. with a series of civil disobedience actions, FDF brings together frontline activists, youth, Indigenous leaders, climate experts, celebrities, and lovers of the planet to demand our elected leaders act on the climate emergency.

Since its inception, thousands of people have rallied with Fire Drill Fridays to support climate action, more than 600 people have been arrested in civil disobedience, and over 12 million people have tuned into FDF virtual shows. Now, Fire Drill Fridays is headed to the frontlines of the climate crisis to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with communities who are fighting back against Big Oil!

With less than a decade left to prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, we need to take action at the scale that science and justice demands

This is not a drill. Join the movement. Make the change.

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Activist, advocate and actor Jane Fonda addresses the first Fire Drill Friday. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes as well as Reverend Barber's Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson's often daily anti-apartheid protests, Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate. Every Friday through January 2020, she will be leading weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. We can't afford to wait.
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Activist Vasser Seydel, left, with a sign along with activist, advocate and actor Jane Fonda and other activists on the steps of the Capitol at the first Fire Drill Friday. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes as well as Reverend Barber's Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson's often daily anti-apartheid protests, Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate. Every Friday through January 2020, she will be leading weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. We can't afford to wait.
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Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes as well as Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson’s often daily anti-apartheid protests, Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate. Every Friday through January 2020, she will be leading weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. This sixth week of protests brings Actresses June Diane Raphael & Brooklyn Decker introducing the speakers including: Kerene Tayloe; Mark Magaña; Catherine Flowers; Von Hernandez; Khadija Khokhar; Abigail Disney; Robert Kennedy, Jr.; and Yvette Arellano., 8.19.90.6th Fire Drill Friday
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Activist Jerome Foster addresses the first Fire Drill Friday press conference.