The group ended the strike outside of the Chase Tower because Sun said Chase Bank is one of the biggest funders of fossil fuels. The strikers’ main demands were fossil fuel divestment and investment in clean energy.
Danica Sun helped lead a group of about 50 people, mostly in their teens and early 20s, holding posters and signs through the Loop Friday amid windy and wet snowy weather as they chanted phrases such as, “The planet, the people, always over profit.”
The group, which gathered at Heritage Green Park around 2 p.m. and ended outside Chase Tower shortly before 3 p.m. was participating in a global climate strike against fossil fuel funding hosted by a number of environmental justice organizations locally and across the world, such as Fridays For Future.The group ended up outside of the Chase Tower because Sun said Chase Bank is one of the biggest funders of fossil fuels.
“I want people in power, companies, officials in power, to take action and take responsibility for the consequences they have inflicted on the youth,” she said. “I shouldn’t be out here fighting for my future. The people in power should be using their positions to ensure a safe future for their kids, for kids like me, like my sister, my schoolmates, for all of us in our future.
Fridays For Future chapters traditionally try to hold strikes every Friday, Sun said, but the Chicago chapter tries especially hard to participate during global strikes in September and March, when Fridays for Future chapters across the world all organize to strike on the same day.“I’ve always cared about it,” she said. “I educated myself more and more, and I realized that the consequences reach us and our future.
In the seventh grade, Sun said she did a research project on permafrost, which “exploded” her interest in the climate crisis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined the local chapter of the
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