David Raymond Amos@DavidRayAmos Replying to @DavidRayAmos@alllibertynews and 49 others I wonder if anyone other than Kevin Vickers Dominic Cardy or Don Allen recall my being barred from the UNB Campus and the All Candidates debate when I ran in Fredericton in 2006 for a seat in the 39th Parliament?
Daniel Nunes, a fourth-year student at UNB, was a lead organizer of the Fridays for Future climate strikes in the area. (Logan Perley/CBC)
Dozens of people gathered at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton on Friday as part of a global "climate strike" aimed at forcing political and industrial leaders around the world to take urgent action to deal with climate change and to end fossil fuel use.
Similar rallies took place in 150 countries Friday, with students taking time off school and work to attend.
The day of action in Fredericton started with poetry from Halifax poet and professor El Jones. The microphone was then opened to any participant who wanted to share thoughts and messages on climate action.
Daniel Nunes, a fourth-year student at UNB, was a lead organizer for Friday's for Future climate strikes in the area.
"These rallies are is based off an initial movement by Greta Thunberg" he said.
Shelby Harnish, co-owner of the Veg Out vegan food truck in Fredericton, closed her food truck to attend the climate strike with her dog. (Logan Perley/CBC)
Thunberg famously started skipping school last year to demonstrate outside the parliament of her home country of Sweden, calling on lawmakers for more action on climate change. She's become a leader in the movement to end fossil fuel use and will be one of hundreds of young people taking part in the United Nations's first Youth Climate Summit in New York this weekend.
"She believes that there's no purpose to getting an education and getting a degree if the world would already be destroyed by the time she is old enough to actually use her degree and become a professional," Nunes said.
"What we wanted to do here in Fredericton is take Greta's message and kind of just disseminate it among students and also just provide them a chance to to speak on climate change to kind of vocalize their concerns."
Nunes wanted students at the rally to know how important voting and the issue of climate change are in the federal election coming up Oct. 21.
Election candidates were invited to speak at the rally and present their platforms on climate change and how they would increase "climate literacy," he said.
Two Fredericton election candidates, Liberal Matt DeCourcey and Jenica Atwin of the Green Party, both attended the event.
Shelby Harnish, the co-owner of local vegan food truck Veg Out, said she closed her truck for the day to attend the climate strike.
Harnish brought her dog and a placard that read "Stop denying the world is dying."
"I don't think it's a topic that even needs to be debated anymore," she said of climate-change deniers.
David Coon, Green Party MLA for Fredericton South, spoke to the crowd about climate change. (Logan Perley/CBC)
She encouraged people to vote.
"If you are of age, you need to take it upon yourself to use your power and to put people in charge who know what is right for our earth right now."
Fredericton South MLA and Green Party Leader David Coon, who was also at the rally, said he is inspired by young people talking about their concerns, since they see "the writing on the wall."
Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council says Western science is finally catching up to the philosophies of Indigenous peoples and realizing it's time to protect the Earth. (Logan Perley/CBC)
"They know that fundamental change is needed and we've got to start beginning those steps now to try to implement the actual changes that are required and do so in a democratic way," Coon said.
"A way that is based on meeting the needs of our communities and assuring the well-being of all." Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council came to the protest with his two young grandchildren. He said corporate and political leaders are "gambling with" the children's futures.
"Their mom pulled them out of school just to be here, just to make a statement that their future is so crucial," he said.
Tremblay was encouraged that people around the world are finally starting to see the Earth through the same lens as Indigenous people.
"Science is finally catching up to our philosophies, our theories and our beliefs about how we need to protect and preserve water, the Earth and the air for the future generations," said Tremblay, who is also known as Spasaqsit Possesom.
"Water has life, and the Earth has life, and the trees and the medicines that grow in it need to be protected," he said. Indigenous people have held these beliefs since time immemorial, he said.
Following the rally some of the crowd walked through downtown Fredericton in a march dubbed the "Extinction Rebellion."
Logan Perley is a Wolastoqi journalist from Tobique First Nation and a casual reporter at CBC New Brunswick. You can email him at logan.perley@cbc.ca or follow him on Twitter @LoganPerley.
David Raymond Amos I wonder if anyone other than Kevin Vickers, Dominic Cardy and Don Allen recall my being barred from the UNB Campus and the All Candidates debate when I ran in Fredericton in 2006 for a seat in the 39th Parliament?
David Raymond Amos I wonder if the Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council recalls the conversation we had on a bench overlooking the river after he was in a protest before the election of the 42nd Parliament and who stopped him from talking to me?
David Raymond Amos Methinks it is not rocket science to understand why Ron Trembaly would support Jenica Atwin of the Green Party, N'esy Pas?
John Holmes
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Please explain your statement. I'm curious as to why you think that.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @John Holmes: She is his daughter
Donald Gallant Those who don’t pay taxes should not be allowed to vote.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Donald Gallant: Everybody pays taxes even those who are not allowed to vote
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Donald Gallant: what next, those who don't pay tax should not be allowed to exist?
Marguerite Deschamps
If we continue to wreak havoc on this planet, soon none of us will exist, taxpayers included.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Excellent observation, David!
JJ Carrier Great job on the rally, but as a person who covered all the heavy industry stories in the North Shore from 1986 to John Bennett's recent jail term for graft at his Belledune site, I'm sorry this never happened years ago because more events like these are needed to get people informed this planet is ours, not the makers of plastic or Big Money or foolish politicians...Making up for the failures of the previous generation should be the goal of every young person...This on-going increase on the world stage among the youth is comparable to start of the Greenpeace years.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier: Yea right
Terry Tibbs Isn't it just great, watching our young people being exploited.......... Though it was a fine day out, winter is coming, a good day to phone in well to work/school. Oh yes, you are making a difference, and proving once again you are no different.
Roy Nicholl
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Perhaps we can demonstrate to them the loss of becoming jaded and personally defeated ;-)
John Holmes
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Exploited by who? The secret Green Cabal? Militant tree huggers and Radical Vegan extremists? Please detail who is responsible for this exploitation, and while you're at it, explain how those exploiters benefit from doing it.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @John Holmes: Exploited by politicians using the very inexact science of climate change to literally pick our pockets. If you have any age to you, first the ice caps were melting, and we were to be waist deep in water. Then they were freezing and an ice age was upon us. Now we have come back full circle and we are warming again. But as I said, nothing was lost, the day was outstanding, and winter will soon be upon us, so get out and get it while you can.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Roy Nicholl: Jaded by politicians who have weaponized the inexact science of climate change to pick our pockets? You bet, and when they are working, and paying their own way, they are more than welcome to decide. Personally defeated? Not on your life. I've worked hard my whole life and I have enough to do what I want, when I want, any time I want.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: I concur
John Holmes
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: No answer to my questions? I thought you might actually have answers before posting on the public record.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @John Holmes: Sure I answered your questions........ my questions to you, is reading your "trouble", or is it comprehension that gives you difficulty?
Mo Bennett don't vote for liberals or reformacons. they will do nothing. vote green, give the planet and yer futures a chance.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @mo bennett:
You mean vote green where the leader jaunts around the country in jet airliners?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @mo bennett: YO Mo tell us another one
Methinks the Grand Chief Ron Tremblay of the Wolastoq Grand Council and his daughter forgot why I ran against Andy Scott in Fat Fred City for his seat in the 39th Parliament but his former assistant DeCourcey, his green meanie buddy and everybody pal Chucky Leblanc certainly have not N'esy Pas?
McKenzie King How did all these people get to the protest? Did they come in machines using fossil fuels?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @McKenzie King: Methinks somebody named after a former liberal prime minister should be capable of figuring that out N'esy Pas?
What I would like to know is how many dead dinosaurs are in a barrel of oil and how did they get that deep underground? When we are finally out of Mother Nature's hair how much oil will she turn us into?
SarahRose Werner The planet is not dying. Various species that inhabit its surface are dying. Our own species may eventually be among them, which to my mind would be well-deserved. But the planet itself will be fine. That said, I certainly encourage anyone who's eligible to vote to do so.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Plus if we do die off, within s billion years another intelligent species will develop. Maybe they will get it right,
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Methinks George Carlin explained that quite well long ago N'esy Pas?
Mike Morton In approximately 5 billion years the sun will expand and turn into a red giant. That will destroy the earth, and that is science...
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Mike Morton: Are sure about that or do you believe everything some professor or good book tells you? Methinks some folks claim that their god has another plan and that he created everything in just a week or so Then there is the big bang theory that I never understood as well N'esy Pas?
I am comfortable admitting that I don't know and definitely don't trust all knowing priests or professors.
“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Marguerite Deschamps
David Raymond Amos said: "Methinks...BS ...N'esy pas?
David Raymond Amos Methinks many would agree that the liberals and the Greens deserve each other N'esy Pas?
