Still coming to terms with Donald Trump’s Election Day victory, University of Virginia students hosted a modest protest Friday taking aim at the president-elect’s climate policies.
“Our generation will suffer the most from the climate crisis,” 19-year-old student organizer Maggie Chang told about two dozen people gathered in the McIntire Amphitheatre just off the university’s central Lawn. “We must be the ones to speak out loudest.”
Chang and her fellow members within the Sunrise Movement, a national organization of young people dedicated to fighting climate change, scrambled to put the event together as an immediate response to Tuesday’s vote. A press release promoting the Friday event was sent out Thursday evening.
“Young people are already mobilizing and preparing to stop Trump from implementing his climate agenda,” it reads. “If Democrats want to win, they need to stand up for working people and deliver for our generation, not pander to big …