The students had all walked out of class to protest climate change.

This is part of a global climate strike with over a thousand marches happening in 100

countries all around the world.

And Portland students are right there in the thick of it.

We're still down here today to show our world leaders where real power lies.

This is a school walk out that kids in Portland, Oregon organized back in 2019.

You might remember that around that time, a lot of students were holding these kinds of

protests.

It was a year after Greta Tunberg held her first school strike for the climate and millions

were showing up for these similar strikes around the world to basically demand that governments

give us some real action on climate change.

But the Portland March was a little different.

It wasn't solely focused on getting local and federal governments to enact policies to

reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It was also about this fight with the school board happening

right there in Portland.

In the past four episodes of this series, we've gotten into the fossil fuel industries

insidious infiltration of school curricula.

It's something they've been doing for the past century.

We've shown how these companies pushed this false idea that we could never live without

them, that free markets are what make us free, then nature is there for humans to extract

from.

It's been pretty dark, but today we're going to talk about people who are trying to fix

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