Tairawhiti Youth Environment

Tairawhiti Youth Environment AKA - Gisborne SS4C! We Tairawhiti youth campaigning to make a change to protect our region's environment and for action on climate change.

We've spent too long getting fed up at lack of inaction: so now we are standing up and making change happen.

12/04/2021

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Today we demand change 🌍✨
09/04/2021

Today we demand change 🌍✨

23/06/2020

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When our leaders are blinded to the obvious climate emergency we are in, we refuse to back down. We keep fighting for ac...
20/12/2019

When our leaders are blinded to the obvious climate emergency we are in, we refuse to back down. We keep fighting for action that will not only safeguard our futures, our now. 🔥
This week, we presented a petition with over 1,200 signatures to the GDC, demanding they declare a climate emergency 🚨. But even with this, councillors thought their finances were of more importance than safeguarding Tairawhiti with strong climate action, not understanding that the cost of not inaction, anywhere, is much, much higher. 🌏
They ignored the demands of our community and went back on promises they made in the local body election this year. The frustration about these local leaders is high: but we are not giving up. We have vowed to come back stronger than ever and continue the fight for climate justice in Tairawhiti: because this is the most important issue humanity has ever faced. ✊

Tears in Gisborne council chambers as councillors stopped short of declaring a climate emergency despite impassioned pleas.

This is why we need everywhere to declare a climate emergency: because our leaders clearly don’t understand the crisis w...
17/12/2019

This is why we need everywhere to declare a climate emergency: because our leaders clearly don’t understand the crisis we are in 🚨 It starts with the Gisborne District Council - see you tomorrow as we present our petition ✊

The Environmental Protection Authority granted OMV GSB's application to drill up to 10 exploration and appraisal wells and discharge into the ocean.

👏👏👏 This the first step.
07/11/2019

👏👏👏 This the first step.

This 👏 is 👏 action. The Zero Carbon Bill has passed parliament. This bill is just the start of transformative climate action 💚🌏

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07/11/2019
02/11/2019
Gisborne District Council, it's a climate emergency, admit it! 🌍🌅☀️💚Save our future!
30/10/2019

Gisborne District Council, it's a climate emergency, admit it! 🌍🌅☀️💚

Save our future!

Our petition to the GDC, asking they declare a Climate Emergency, is so close to 1000 signatures!!! 📣We know that the cl...
21/10/2019

Our petition to the GDC, asking they declare a Climate Emergency, is so close to 1000 signatures!!! 📣
We know that the climate crisis is nothing short of an emergency, and it’s time our leaders stand up and treat climate change like it is.
We are presenting this petition to the council in a matter of weeks, and we need as many signatures behind this as possible to make sure the council take our petition seriously and DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY 🚨
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Comment below ⬇️ if you’ve signed and shared the petition!

This is a call to action for our representatives to declare a climate emergency for Gisborne and to take decisive action. Climate breakdown is a challenge for all humanity, but it is also our biggest opportunity. By declaring a climate emergency we can ensure our representatives make the necessary d...

25/09/2019
Guidelines for Friday! Let’s go!! ✊✊
25/09/2019

Guidelines for Friday! Let’s go!! ✊✊

We want our strikes to be as inclusive and as safe as possible for everyone! We've got just a few guidelines for Friday to make sure this happens ✊💚

20/09/2019

Last night, we for 🌏 We took to the streets with chalk to spread our message - PLANET OVER PROFIT - and show that we will not be quiet until we have climate action ✊
Although the GDC washed away our slogans early this morning, the rest of our work can be seen throughout Gladstone road and Gisborne!
Nothing can stop us - we will see you on September 27th 📣🚨

🌏 SEPTEMBER 27TH STRIKE 4 CLIMATE: Everything you need to know! In this post, we will explain what September 27th is all...
17/09/2019

🌏 SEPTEMBER 27TH STRIKE 4 CLIMATE: Everything you need to know!
In this post, we will explain what September 27th is all over the world. In our last post we told you what Gisborne’s plan for September 27th is, and in a coming post we will explain why we are striking on the 27th. 📣
A GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE 🚨
September 27th is part of a week long global campaign for action, lasting from the 20th - 27th.
The week takes places as Greta Thunberg addresses the UN summit in New York.
There are two global climate strikes on this week, on the 20th and the 27th. In NZ, we are striking for the climate on September 27th to demand action from our leaders, both locally, nationally, and globally.
The idea for September 27th is not only for students to strike from school, but for everyone to strike for climate justice. That’s right: this is an inter generational Strike 4 Climate. Parents, teachers, aunties, uncles, friends, grandparents - we want everyone to strike with us for climate action. After all, we will all be affected by climate change - we we all need to take action. We cannot wait any longer.
People in over 150 countries are organising for the global climate strikes.
In NZ, cities and towns across the country are taking part but organising strike events. In Gisborne, we are holding a march and sit-in. Collectively, we can put pressure on our Government to act, and with the rest of the world, we can put pressure on leaders everywhere to act. Climate change is happening: it is here and we need end the age of fossil fuels now. As Greta Thunberg said, - “I want you to act as if your house is on fire. Because it is.”
So join us on September 27th to fight for our planet, our homes, our futures and our now. ✊

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Last night, we #floodedthecity for #climateaction 🌏 We took to the streets with chalk to spread our message - PLANET OVER PROFIT - and show that we will not be quiet until we have climate action ✊ Although the GDC washed away our slogans early this morning, the rest of our work can be seen throughout Gladstone road and Gisborne! Nothing can stop us - we will see you on September 27th 📣🚨

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Our activism began with a strike.

Our group started long before we even knew we were a group. It was February, the start of the school year, and a youth movement inspired by climate activist Greta Thundberg was taking to world by storm.

A school strike to demand climate action was making the rounds on Facebook. It was on March 15th, and places all over New Zealand were holding marches, rallies and protests, all organised by and for students, to make our voices heard about inaction on climate change. It was a crisis, we all knew, and suddenly there was a way to tell it to our politicians.

One of us texted a mate she knew cared about climate change as much as she did, and suggested they do a strike in Gisborne. They forged connections with students from other schools, and together we somehow made a protest for climate action on March 15th, along with thousands and thousands of other students across New Zealand - even more across the entire world. Our message was clear: we want climate action. Most of us had never been to a protest before, let alone know how to organise one: and with roughly 200 students in attendance, it was a success all around.

But the action we demanded had not been taken. Climate change was and is threatening our futures, and yet Governments weren’t yet treating it like a crisis, and physical action had not been taken. So another national strike was scheduled for May 24th.