Willamette Week

Student Climate Activists Don’t Want the Portland Mayor to Fly to Copenhagen

What climate-striking teens want to tell the mayor.

When Climate Change Forces You to Flee the Earth on a Spaceship, What Two Items Will You Definitely Bring With You?

Photos from the 2019 Global Climate Strike.

City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Blasts Portland Police Actions at Friday Climate Rally

Echoing Urban League president, Hardesty says cops “unnecessarily escalated a situation.”

Forceful Arrest of Student Climate Protesters Draws Condemnation From Portland Civic Leaders

“It was shocking to see police officers push into a group of children, and toss two boys to the ground to be handcuffed,” Nkenge Harmon Johnson tells WW.

“We Want Change”: Tens of Thousands of Portland Teens Call for Action in Global Climate Strike

“I came out here because we’re all going to die soon if we don’t!” said PNCA sophomore Clay Kemper.

Portland’s College Students Want Their Schools to Cancel Class So They Can Strike on Climate

These petitions demand that schools cancel class, close campus or not punish those who join the Sept. 20 Global Climate Strike.

Students With Excused Absences Can Cut Class to Strike on Climate, Portland Public Schools Says

Just ask a teacher, kids.

Thousands of Portland Public School Students Stage Walkout Against Climate Change

Thousands of Portland high school and middle school students walked out of class today to protest climate change.

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