Joaquin Phoenix with Jane Fonda during the 14th 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 10t, 2020, she leads 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 fourteen include:
- Naomi Klein, Social activist, environmentalist, filmmaker, and author of The Burning Case For A Green New Deal;
-Tasina Sapa Win Smith, Itazipco, Mnicojou and Hunkpapa Lakota of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and frontline environmental and social justice grassroots activist;
- Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe), Tribal attorney, co-founder of the Giniw Collective;
- Joaquin Phoenix, Actor and Producer;
- Omekongo Dibinga, Motivational speaker, diversity consultant, poet and positive rapper;
- Kat Taylor, Environmental and Social Justice activist, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a Community Development Financial Institution;
- Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Dënesųłiné woman (ts'ékui), member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and mother of two;
- Martin Sheen, Actor and Activist;
- Rebecca Adamson, American Cherokee businessperson and advocate, and Founder of First Peoples Worldwide;
- Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA;
- June Diane Raphael, Actor and Producer;
- Amber Valletta, Model and Actress., 8.19.90.14th Fire Drill Friday