cassette

Fridays For
Future Online
Climate Strike
By Ezgi Sönmez
“Fridays For Future” is an international
organization that is fighting against the climate
crisis and trying to create awareness for these
climate problems. I am a co-founder of Eskişehir
region of this organization. On Friday the 25th of
September 2020 we made an online strike about
climate justice and social justice and I made a
speech during which I represented Eskişehir with
my friend Aslı who is the founder of the Eskişehir
region of this organization. We designed and
created some banners and used them for
protesting at a busy corner used by
pedestrians place by holding them. We aimed to
create awareness about social and climate justice
and to make the world a more livable
environment by talking about several justice
problems in the world.
I met the “Fridays For Future” international organization one year ago. My friend informed
me about it. Therefore, we started one in Eskişehir too. This organization provided an attempt
to my mental, intellectual, and emotional development. The FFF online climate strike and all
other small protests that we made were very productive experiences for me. They taught me
to manage my time with all the meetings and the rehearsals we made and also they taught me
to have more self-confidence in myself. I have made many friends from the organization team
and by this, my social communication skills have improved. This experience means a lot to me
because we are trying to become known as the Eskişehir part of the organization for 2 years. So
this strike made our voices heard and maybe opened new doors from which we will need support
from.
In the strike, we made a speech with Aslı where we expressed our opinions about the climate
crisis and social injustices. We started to see the existing injustices increasingly all over the
society, in all ways. Among these, femicide was the one that concerned us the most. The events
we have experienced have shown us that sometimes people can still embrace the idea that they
are superior to someone and something. We think that the biggest source of this sickly mindset
is the wrong policies followed. Just like with the ecological disasters we are beginning to see
so often all over the country. Innocent citizens paid the price for their mistakes. The climate
crisis, on the other hand, came closer to being an inevitable threat for all creatures, despite the
lives climate crisis destroyed and the nature it slaughtered. Although all this saddens us, as the
Eskişehir branch, we will always try to make our voice heard, both locally and throughout the
country, without losing our hope for the future. Beyond being a spectator in this effort, standing
by our side and joining our struggle will strengthen us, so in the climate strike we encouraged
people to join us and we concluded our speech by stating that we hope to overcome all kinds of
injustice together.
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