The Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, in cooperation with 350 SB and the Greta Thunberg Fridays for Future international organization, is sponsoring a Shoe Strike for Climate Justice, noon-1 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at the County Administration Building, 105 E. Anapamu St.
Shoe Strikes are a COVID-safe means of holding a demonstration without the need for large in-person gatherings.
Modeled on the SkoStrejk movement that started in Sweden and is spreading worldwide, the Shoe Strike will display shoes to represent the people who, but for the COVID-19 pandemic, would be demonstrating in the streets.
Shoe strikes are being held worldwide on the last Saturday of each month to raise awareness of the need for climate justice and to demand that elected officials at every level of government take
immediate action to address the climate crisis and the social and economic impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saying the two unprecedented crises require unprecedented action to protect citizens and our planet, the group demands that elected officials at all levels of government do the following:
• Deny any new permits for fossil fuel projects.
• Focus responses to the COVID-19 crisis on a just transition from the fossil fuel economy.
• Protect people and the environment — not corporate profit.
• End systemic oppression to stop the long history of racial and economic injustice.