Jane Fonda and some of the speakers lead activists marching through the streets during the ninth Fire Drill Friday. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes as well as Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson’s often daily anti-apartheid protests, 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 leads weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. Speakers for the ninth Fire Drill Friday included: Jane Fonda;
Kyra Sedgwick, Actress, Producer & Director;
Rev. Malik Saafir, Methodist Minister, Scholar & Community organizer;
Taylor Schilling, Actress;
Liz Butler, Vice President of Organizing and Strategic Alliances at Friends of the Earth;
Saket Soni, GPUS Board member, Founder of Resilience Force;
Hector Emilo Rivamar & Joel Alejandro Salazar, Saket's friends, activists, and leaders of Resilience Force;
Maura Tierney, Actress;
Imam Saffet Abid Catovic, GreenFaith's Senior Islamic Advisor;
Rev. Noel Anderson, Grassroots Coordinator for Church World Service and lead organizer for the UCC National Collaborative on Immigration;
Susan Gunn, Director of the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns;
Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Mordechai Leibling, who will be reading the new Rabbinic Statement on the Climate Crisis, “Elijah’s Covenant Between the Generations to Heal Our Endangered Earth”;
Rev. Kaji S. Douša, Senior Pastor of the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City., 8.19.90.9th Fire Drill Friday