Heather Toney addresses the eleventh Fire Drill Friday. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate. Every Friday through January 2020, she will be leading weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. We can't afford to wait. Speakers for week eleven include:
Heather Toney, First African-American, first female and the youngest person to serve as Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, at the age of 27;
Laura Seydel, Jane's stepdaughter, and Director of the Environmental Working Group;
Casey Wilson, Actress, Comedian and Screenwriter;
Anabell Castro Thompson, Nurse Practitioner and Senior Vice President of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Equality Health;
Gloria Steinem, Feminist, journalist, and social political activist, widely recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s;
Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, and one the century’s most powerful and respected labor movement leaders;
Ai-jen Poo, Organizer, Social innovator, author, and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations;
Sweet Honey In the Rock, musical artists, performing;
Roshi Joan Halifax, Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, activist;
Reverend William Barber, President & Sr. Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, and organizer of the Moral Monday protests.