Hello, everybody. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. My name is Lucy, I'm going to be your trainer for today, and today's topic for the webinar is goals and strategy. So for those of you who've never joined us before, I'm going to do a quick introduction to the webinar, to the tools we're going to use, and to myself. So I'm Lucy Carina, I use the pronouns she and her, and based in Budapest, I'm from the UK, and I've been a climate activist for the past 10 years. I started off as a youth climate activist with the UK Youth Climate Coalition and Young Friends of the Earth. And now I'm a regular old climate activist. I've worked for Friends of the Earth International and now I'm working at 350 as your online trainer for the climate strikes. So this webinar is goals and strategy. It's one of three topics that we've been running over the last week, a few weeks. The other topics are escalation and going big. We're running escalation webinars tomorrow. But that's the last of it for this kind of series of webinars. So this is actually the last time that we are running this goals and strategy workshop. So, so welcome to our last ever goals and strategy webinar. And so I need to take you through some of the zoom tools that we'll be using today. So you will notice that you are already on mute, and there will be chances to come off mute during this call. But for most of our communication, we're going to be using the chat box. So some of you have already found the chat box great and you're typing in your introductions. So I'm inviting you all to open your chat box now. You'll find it by it's the little kind of speech bubble icon in your zoom window. And just type in your name, your age or location so we know who we have here in our virtual room if you're comfortable with that. And you can type into the chat box at any point during this webinar to communicate with me to communicate with your fellow participants. So just as a tip, though, make sure that when you're typing in there, you're typing to all panelists and attendees. So there's a little blue drop down menu in the chat box, you can change it to all panelists and attendees and that means that everybody's going to be able to see your message, which is what we want. And so we'll also be using during this webinar a couple of other tools. So there's raise hand. So there's going to be times when I ask people to share during this webinar to give an example to explain something.  We also will be using the question and answer box. So Q&A box. So that's really for any any questions that arise that you don't want them to get lost in the zoom chat as it scrolls up. We'll try and answer all of these questions live if we can. If we can't, then we'll try and make sure that we have time at the end of the webinar to have a kind of question and answer session where we'll address your questions there. We're also going to be using the poll. We're going to launch a poll during this webinar. You won't be able to see that yet in your zoom window. That's something that's going to pop up on your screen when I launch it. So if you're joining via phone on a voice call, you won't be able to participate in the poll, but I'll talk you through it so you're still in the loop. So I'm going to introduce our tech person today who is Nona. Nona, would you like to say hello. My name is Nona. I'm based in Paris, and I will be here to help you troubleshoot any problems that you have with Zoom. And while Lucy is doing the presentation, I will also try to answer any questions that you put into Q&A box. Thank you very much, Nona. And just to let you know that we're recording this webinar, and this is really for you so that you have an opportunity to watch it back. If you don't catch everything, if you have to do something halfway through, you have the opportunity to watch it back. So let me just say hello to everybody. I think we have around 20 odd people on the call today. Hello, Mariam. Hello, Michael. Hi, Andrew. Hi, Queen Esther. Hi, Nicole. Hi, Tim. Hi, Heenal. Hi, Alio. Hi, Priscilla. Hi, Indra. Hi, Emily. Good to see some familiar names there. Welcome back. If this is the second or third webinar that you're joining, and if this is the first one, then welcome to you. So what you're going to need for this webinar, it's handy if you have a piece of paper and a pen handy. This is because there'll be a couple of tasks that I set during this webinar where I'll ask you to write something down, list something, that kind of thing. So make sure you have that to hand. So the objectives for this webinar, first of all, by the end of this hour, we'll hopefully all be able to articulate what are our global national and local goals. We'll also be able to finish this sentence, I'm joining the global's climate strikes because at a global level, at a national level, at a local level. And this is so that we can explain to people, if people are interested in joining, we can make it, you know, we can motivate other people to join us. So I know that for many of you, maybe the goals of your strike might already be set, maybe at the national level, for example. The aim of this webinar is really to enable you to articulate these goals, to kind of use them as a motivational force for the purposes of movement building, not so much for the purposes of measuring progress as we do with some goals. So by the end of this training, you're going to have a sheet of paper that hopefully looks a little bit like this. And just to remind you that this webinar is designed to be interactive. So there are certain tasks and questions that I'll be asking during the webinar. I'm inviting you to take responsibility for your learning, engage with the questions as much as you can, and you'll enjoy it a lot more that way anyway. So what we're going to go through today. First of all, we're going to talk about why we're mobilizing and why it's important to know our goals and strategy. And then we're going to be talking about what we hope that the global climate strike is going to achieve at the local global national level. And then we're going to move on to making a plan of action together. And hopefully at the end, we're going to have time so that I can run you through some of the resources that are available to you. And we can have a kind of question and answer session as well. We always kick off these trainings with a poll and let me just launch the poll for you. So again, if you are joining via phone, you might not be able to see this up on your screen. But if you're joining online, hopefully you will have just seen this poll pop up like magic, and you're invited to start filling that out as soon as you can. And so this is really for, it's for me really to see, you know, who is on this call. What's the kind of level of experience of people here, who's already connected up to the movement, that kind of thing. So the questions are, have you been involved in a climate action event before? And your options are no, this will be my first time or I've participated maybe once before a couple of times before, or I'm a regular activist. And the other question is, are you connected with other local activists? So either yes, I'm involved in a local climate group, or there's a group locally, but I'm not involved yet. Or there isn't a local action group that I want to start one. Or some of you might be willing to organize for the strikes but not interested in being part of a group. That's also an option there. So I think everybody's voted. Wow, that's a first. Everybody's done it. I'm going to share the results with you. I didn't even have to do a countdown to prompt you. Amazing. Okay, great. So it looks like a lot of people on this call. It's your first time taking action. Oh wow, we have some incredible percentages here in these poll results. I'm not sure what happened there, but we have 105% people already involved in the local climate action group. I'm thinking maybe that's not quite accurate, but let's run with it. So a lot of people here, it's your first time taking action. A special welcome to you. That's incredibly exciting. And we have some regular activists here and some people who've already done a climate action before as well. So a bit of a mix.  And a few of you not yet involved, but yeah, the keyword there being yet. So thanks for participating in that poll. And I'm going to start off by asking you a question.  And I want you to say maybe in one word, maybe in a few words, how did you feel when you heard about the global climate strike? Did you feel empowered? Did you feel excited? Skeptical? Did you decide right away that you wanted to join? Did you need to be convinced? So please type into the chat. How did you feel when you heard about this upcoming global climate strike? And you can be honest here as well. So he now says excited zero to everybody seems excited so far. Hoping to start a green group. So lots of positivity here. I like it. But also it's okay if you if you needed some some convincing as well. Great. Wow decided to go to NYC to see Greta on the 20th inspired and impressed with the courage of young people. Happy no need to be convinced immediately got immensely excited. Okay, real positivity here. Great because so so the key thing here I think you know we've had a lot of different responses over these last weeks. Some people did need to be convinced right okay so Priscilla saying I needed to be convinced at first because where I live there is zero zero information about the climate strike right. To be honest you know Priscilla I kind of I kind of felt the same I didn't necessarily need convincing but you know as somebody who's been part of the movement for a long time. I you know I've seen a lot of big mobilizations and you know I needed convincing to that you know that this was going to be one that was going to be really impactful. And I think the key thing here is that people usually do join an action or something that they care about. Not just it's not really enough to care about the issue they also need to know that what they're what they're going to do is going to make a difference right. So these climate strikes we know they're not going to solve the climate crisis alone. What this moment can do is demonstrate that people are no longer willing to continue with business as usual right. So the urgency of the climate crisis does require this kind of new approach. And we know that the strikes are going to make a difference because they already have because look at the luck the results of the last few months of school strikes. In this webinar we're going to we're going to sort of learn how we can communicate exactly what we want to achieve and to use that as motivation for other people to join us. So I'm going to invite you, we're going to do a bit of a brainstorm right and I'm going to invite you to type into the chat. What do you think are the goals of the school strikes movement. So what have you heard what kind of slogans what demands what do they aim to do. So type into the chat box what you think of these goals. This isn't a test it's really at the very top level what do they want. What are they trying to achieve get world leaders to acknowledge yeah I encourage global leaders to take action so we're looking for action on climate change. Politics in line with the Paris agreement or yeah in line with what the science is demanding demand world governments to take action. Get the media to finally acknowledge the imminent threat of runaway climate change. Yes so so kind of words that I've heard are like wake up. Yeah wake up to the science. Climate change on the agenda making a priority absolutely. Green New Deal I've had I've had course for a green New Deal. Yeah acknowledge the truth so listen to the truth keep fossil fuels in the ground yeah system change not climate change. Yeah these really kind of big ambitious asks right. Yeah so listen to the science the facts exactly Mariam just transition climate justice for everybody. Yeah okay unite behind the science. Okay so yeah so I think these are all fantastic so yeah absolutely. Thank you Nona for for writing these down as they're coming in. Yeah people who are most affected at the forefront of the solutions that's that's what I've heard as well impacted peoples justice for impacted peoples and listening to their voices absolutely. So so thank you so so these are definitely some of the some of the top line kind of demands that I've asked that I've seen. And here's some other ones that we've we've kind of crowdsourced from these webinars as well you know we've heard people saying that you know the school strikers are saying listen to the science yeah wake up to the emergency no more fossil fuels radical shift system change. So all of those things that you just listed definitely. So my kind of follow up question then is what do you notice anything about these goals as goals you know do they have anything in common. I'm curious to know if you notice any any observations that you have about these goals so you can type into the chat. I encourage this action yeah they require a big power shift right. So these are ambitious goals right these are these are not these are not tinkering around the edges right. These are really ambitious yeah radical in a good way I totally agree. So what I would say what I would put to you is that these are movement building goals right. The movement building goals are quite different to for example are smart specific measurable campaign goals that you might use in campaigning for example to track progress behind the scenes you may have this kind of detailed action plan with these kind of specific indicators and measurable aims and that kind of thing. But you know one criteria of what we need is we do need these goals also for movement building. So in that sense they need to be motivational. So movement goal movement building goals are goals which are you know so many motivational that you can see the kind of tangible visible significant change that they will cause if we win. And so you know it takes time for a good process to decide on you know that the kind of nitty gritty that the measurable aims and the time bound, you know specifics. But what we need at this moment now is these movement building goals to galvanize and inspire people goals that people can really rally behind. Some other criteria of movement building goals what they also do you know they have the makings of a good story so you know we can see this will be a journey it's going to require a struggle a shift in power. They also build on our resources that we already have so our collective strengths our experience and that kind of thing. They also kind of allow everybody in the movement to be part of deciding, you know, the direction so they allow people in the movement to be to be creative and autonomous they're more kind of decentralized in that sense. But also they're kind of contagious so the idea is that you know people hear them and they're going to be inspired and they're going to want to adopt them as their goals as well. So I have a little test for you. And I want to know if anybody here recognizes this famous chance from used in many movements but used in the climate movement, especially. So I'm going to give you 10 seconds to type into the chat if you can complete this chance. What do we want. When do you want it. Now you've got in there. So climate justice now climate action now. Yeah, what do you want climate justice when do we want it now. Many of you might know that that chart, it might be that you know, this is used by many movements so you know you might have heard what do we want gender justice when do we want it now that kind of thing. 30 years ago. Yeah, that should really be what it is. Michael. Yeah, 10 years ago to yeah, exactly. So this is yeah so so that's exactly it.  It's catchy. It's telling a story. So here's an alternative answer to this. What do we want a 60% reduction in the number of private vehicles on the road alongside a mix of low carbon energies in our grid leading to a managed and realistic phase out of fossil fuels over the next few decades so that we can eventually achieve net zero emissions etc etc. When do we want it by 2100 or 2050 for industrialized countries, if possible. So my question is, is this a movement building goal yes or no. I'm feeling like maybe I made this too obvious. No. Daniel says oh yes it is. I'm really interested to hear why you think that maybe Daniel. Yeah it's more getting into the nitty gritty right so so if we're you know if somebody asks you why you know what do you want to achieve with the global climate strike and you give them this answer. So basically that they're probably not going to be very motivated by it. They're probably not going to be very inspired. You can't really sense what kind of change it's going to lead to. So there's a number of reasons why it's not. It's not a movement building goal it might be a goal, but it's not a movement building goal. So I think that we passed the test. So the key here is that you know to build the movement. Yes we need these movement building these motivational goals to get people on board that's that that's the job of these goals right. But we also need believable strategies so the ambition of these two things really needs to match up if we have these kind of really big ambitious boundary pushing goals. But you know with you know the measures that we are taking aren't going to really add up to that then people aren't really going to join us in doing those actions because they're going to. You know they're not going to see the point in in in giving their time and their energy. So if we have an ambitious goal we do need an ambitious strategy in the escalation webinar we asked the question. What if Greta hadn't been on strike what if she'd taken action on a Saturday. And the kind of conclusion is it probably wouldn't have been so effective. So with a movement building goal plus a believable strategy to get you there, you can scale up participation in your tactics. So when you can explain this movement building goal and your strategy to people they should want to join in. And this leads to more people participating, which means more people power, more likelihood of achieving your goal. So if we choose just one of those kind of school strikers goals which is you know people wake up to the emergency. We can see how their strategy which is made up of tactics such as striking from school, calling this global strike, how that can disrupt systems can create a new normal can shift public perception about climate change and the crisis we face. So I'm going to talk about global goals and why we set them and one reason here is global solidarity right we know that by taking action all over the world. We're connecting communities in solidarity. And on the one hand this is very important because it's important to know that your town's efforts are part of a global movement right. And at the same time, it's also important to show solidarity with those most affected by the climate crisis, who've been fighting for a long time sometimes in very difficult circumstances. So another reason to set a global goal is to open and shift the Overton window. So I wonder if anybody here has heard of the Overton window and knows what it is and wants to explain it to us. If you have maybe raise your hand and you can explain it into the mic I can take you off mute. Or if you're not happy with that you can also type it into the chat. No pressure here. Okay, so some people haven't heard about it so I can explain it now, unless anybody knows about it. So the Overton window. It's basically the concept of the range of ideas, which are tolerated and accepted in public conversation. It's also known, yeah absolutely Timothy so it's the scope of acceptable ideas that can be discussed by serious people so by decision makers, you know is those kind of is the ideas which are considered to be politically feasible or politically viable. They all sit within the Overton window. So ideas without you know outside of the Overton window are often you know considered to be radical and thinkable unacceptable that kind of thing. And the Overton window isn't static it shifts and it moves with with sort of public the public narrative and the public conversation. So what we want to do is to shift the Overton window so that more ambitious action is acceptable at all levels so at the global level the national and the local level. And actually we've already done that for many, many of our climate goals. So, for example, there was a time maybe 10 or 15 years ago when fossil fuels were considered widely to be a good investment.  And this is a global level. And it was really only the most radical voices in the movement at this time who were calling for all fossil fuels to stay in the ground, and for all energy to be renewable. And just forward a few years. These demands become much more mainstream right and investing in fossil fuels started to be seen as a less kind of acceptable thing to do. So now opinions vary from country to country obviously but at a global level, it's much more widely accepted that we need to end fossil fuels, and that humans are causing climate change. And on the other end of the scale investing in fossil fuels is now seen as unacceptable even a rep, a reputational and a financial risk for investors. So another example of this is that I've been going to the UN climate talks for the past few years and only a few years ago it was really only those movements in the from the global south and climate justice allies saying that a two degree temperature threshold was way too high. And they were calling for that threshold to be lowered to 1.5 degrees. And slowly that demand moved into the over two window so 1.5 degrees eventually made it into the Paris agreement and it's now widely considered as that upper limit that we must not breach. So this is really about, we set global goals, also to shift that narrative to shift the attitude towards climate change. So one of the key questions we'll be thinking about in the next few minutes is what's next. So what is the goal that science demands that equity demands that is so far seen to be too radical to be accepted, right. So we have some suggestions that we're going to go through and we're going to go through other global goals that kind of push the boundaries that enable us to open the over two window to highlight different ways to measure whether our goals are truly calling for the kind of system change that we need. And one global goal that many in the movement of pushing is refugees welcome. So we know that climate change is already causing a mass displacement of people that's set to continue that's set to get to exacerbate. And right now the idea of a world where people who are at risk can freely cross borders isn't taken seriously, but we need to shift that narrative to we need to work on it. We need to make sure that people have the right to move, but also the right not to move you know that they have the right to this to a safe home in the first place which is one of the reasons we're doing the climate strike and asking calling for action right now. So I wonder if no no can you paste this there's in the agenda guide there's a link in there I wonder if you could paste it into the chat box for me. It's that slide 25. Because there are some, there are some groups that are already bringing this message to the global climate strike so for example one of the main events in London is a an event climate strike migrant justice. So, so groups are already bringing this and bringing this as a kind of boundary pushing global movement building goal and to kind of make this more mainstream. When we call for climate action that centers climate justice we need to ask the question does this goal address the root cause of the climate crisis, who's going to bear the burden of this action if this action is taken. Is it going to be those who are historically responsible for causing climate change. We need to take care that the climate action doesn't place the burden of this transformation onto poor people or impacted peoples who have the least responsibility for causing the crisis in the first place. So, I have another question has anybody ever heard the term sacrifice zones. Anybody know what this means. And again you can raise your hand if you've heard about it. Nobody knows. Oh Brian knows Brian. Let's let's unmute you and see if you're able to explain sacrifice zones to us. So I'm just trying to unmute you might need to unmute yourself actually click the microphone icon. Hello Mike. Oh dear. Sorry about that. I can explain sacrifice zones then. I'm sure your explanation would have been spot on as well. So we use the term sacrifice zones to refer to these kind of entire geographic areas which have been sacrificed or abandoned to bear the brunt of climate impacts or impacts of dirty energy for example the idea is it's it's okay because it's happening over there kind of thing. These zones are usually in the global south usually areas populated by black and brown people, but also areas in the global north populated usually by poor and indigenous folks as well. And the concept is that the lives and livelihoods of people in these zones are kind of given a different value right they're deemed not not important. I need to call this out for what it is it's a form of racism and it's driven by this white supremacist attitude that are, and I'm speaking as a white presenter from Europe that our convenience is worth sacrificing other people's lives and well being. And the reason we're talking about sacrifice zones is that we'd argue that without that kind of worldview that this is acceptable in certain places. We never have allowed the climate crisis to progress to this point without the action that is demanded. So when we hear people say we're all in the same boat. It's kind of misleading right because many of us are sheltered or will be sheltered from the worst effects of climate change. So an end to sacrifice zones this means respecting people's rights respecting every part of our earth as part of an ecosystem. And just one more thing you know when we're putting together our goals we need to make sure that what we're calling for isn't going to adversely impact on marginalized communities. So solidarity with impacted peoples also means recognizing that emergency responses could further racial injustice for example. So for example taking indigenous lands and rivers to build a massive hydro dam cracking down on migrants as a national security response. So just because we're in a state of emergency it doesn't mean we can take action at any cost because who gets to decide that who gets to decide which sacrifices are worth it is going to be the people who got us into this mess right in the first place. So we know we know that there exists you know just and safe responses to the climate crisis. And that's what we need to be pushing for. So with these issues of kind of global solidarity in mind of boundary pushing global goals and of movement building goals. I want to set you the first kind of task, which is I'd like you to write down on your paper. Three movement building global goals that push the boundaries of what's possible. So I'm giving you two minutes your two minutes has started now. If you do finish early please do share in the chat or raise your hand if you'd like to share through the mic. Just to remind you these don't need to be perfectly worded. These are just your initial ideas. So don't worry too much about getting it perfect. Okay, so hopefully by now you'll have maybe a couple of global goals maybe three global goals. And so those are those are for you can share them into the chat if you like. And but we're going to move on now and talk about national goals. And so our national goals are going to have the same purposes as global goals right for example opening the overton window, shifting the narrative making sure our country is acting in a way that is equitable away that's just. There might be one difference though. And that's at the national level. There are specific decision makers right that we can target there are politicians. There are the voters who choose politicians. There's also likely to be, you know, climate criminals that we can that we can target as well so big investment banks, fossil fuel companies for example. So one useful way of applying the overton window to our national goals is like this is to think about it like this, that politicians are like a balloon tied to a rock. It's what at them they may sway to the left or the right, but tied down they can only go so far. Instead of batting at them. We should move the rock so people's activated social values. When we move the rock it automatically pulls all the politicians towards us without having to pressure each one separately. And that's from strategy and so by Daniel Hunter. So this really helps us to kind of to see how we can approach our national goals right. So some examples of national goals that do this that kind of move the rock movement building inspiring but slightly more focused to the kind of national context. There are climate emergency declarations like I just mentioned a Green New Deal.  And then for your next task I'd really like you to think about your national national context. So what is the national call for climate action where you are. So it might already be that these you know these are already decided, but I'd like you to again write down on your paper three national goals, so they can either be existing ones, or ones that you've made up. Three national goals that push the boundaries are motivational movement building but maybe slightly slightly more specific to your national context. So I'm giving you a couple of minutes. And again if you finish early please do type into the chat your goals. And in the meantime, I'm going to read your global calls. Green New Deal. Yes. So Sarah where are you based. Are you in Canada. I know that that's a big push in Canada right now for a Green New Deal. Yeah, stop land degradation. Fantastic. Increase renewables. Switch to EVs. Electric vehicles. Yeah, respect bouts of tribals and forest forest dwellers. Fantastic. Urban forests restoring mangrove belts. Okay. Zero waste. Reforestation. Yeah. Okay. National climate curriculum. Yeah, this is that's a really good example of something you can do at the national level. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, these are fantastic. Cool. So it looks like you've all got the hang of your national goals. So hopefully you've all got three national goals that you're happy with. Maybe they can be tweaked a bit, but maybe you're pretty happy about them. Okay. So the next thing I was going to ask you to do is to type just one of them into the chat, but it looks like everybody's written a few so maybe no no we can we can capture some of these into the into the slide. So I see I see a few calls for Green New Deal. I see a few calls for like land reform or agriculture reform. Lots of calls to respect indigenous rights. Stop pushing fossil fuel infrastructure and violence against indigenous peoples. Move to 100% renewables. Yep. Ending coal. Yeah, definitely things that can that can be enacted right at the national level and make sense. Yeah, rewilding. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you Nona for noting these down. And your speedy typing. So as time is marching on, I'm just going to move on. But thank you Nona for typing these out.  Just to kind of checklist is you know, is it a movement building goal can people rally behind it. And does it have those criteria of movement building goal. Does it have a target it might have a target. It might have, you know, certain actors who can enact that. Does it have, could it possibly have a negative impact on somebody. Okay, how do we make it more just. We don't mind if it has a negative impact on the fossil fuel industry for example, but we do mind if it has a negative impact on poorer people impacted peoples right. So moving on to local goals. And this is my favorite part. So, and at the local level, we're all a member of a local community. And in fact, we're actually more likely to be a member of lots of different local communities. So for example, I live in Budapest. So I'm a member of the community of the city of Budapest. I'm also in the 12th district so that's another community that I'm a member of my my the neighbors in my street and in my apartment building we form a community a smaller community right.  You might be a member of the cycling community or the knitting community. So, we're all a member of many many different local communities within our kind of. When we talk about local action it can seem kind of abstract right but if we kind of break it down into our local communities. It feels a little bit more relevant to our lives.  List those onto your piece of paper I'm going to give you maybe 30 seconds and see how we do. So I don't want you to list them in the chat yet, but just just on your piece of paper. Okay, hopefully that everybody now has a list so my next question is how many communities did you count so type that number into the chat. I'm curious. So this isn't a competition by the way if you have 20 or 30 communities then you need to take a break. So usually it's between like one and 10 or something like that. Yeah that's okay if it's one. Okay, so you've all got your communities, you've all got at least one. That's a good start. Cool. So the next task is to choose one community that you could engage in the global climate strike. So off those that you've listed, which one of those do you think would be most likely to be interested in joining the global climate strike. So I hope everybody kind of has one in mind. So what I want you to do into the chat is to have a go at writing a local goal proposal that you can take to that community. So I'm going to give you a couple of examples because this might be a little bit abstract to you or it might seem a bit confusing at first. So my examples are, first example, the community is me and all my fellow students at high school, and this is hypothetical because I'm not at high school. But the idea, yeah, me and my fellow students at high school, our local goal could be that all public educational buildings in my local area should be 100% solar powered, right. So, you know, that's a goal that that is relevant to that community. But it's also something that's within our power to change. And it's something inspiring that we can do to contribute to the global climate strike to to the climate movement in general. So another example is, you know, one of my communities. I'm a cyclist. So I'm a member of the cycling community in Budapest. So, you know, our goal could be space for cyclists on every road in the whole city, right. So this is this, these are just examples, you know, other examples of local goals could be, you know, divestment from from, you know, public funds and pension funds from fossil fuels, planting trees, refusing permits for new fossil fuel development, declaring fossil free zones, that kind of thing. And so, so I'd like you to have a go at choosing that one community and thinking about a relevant local goal that you could enact as a community as your contribution towards the climate movement. This one always takes a little bit more time as people. People are thinking about it and typing in. So do type into the chat once you have your idea, your local community goal. Okay, Miriam, that's a really nice one. So all local or regional church buildings supplied by 100% renewable energy. Yeah, I like that one because it's scalable, right. So you could start off with just your church building and make it a little case study, a little example. And then you could reach out to churches in your local area in other parishes. You can, you can build it up so that it becomes even a national goal that all of these buildings, we're committing that they're going to be 100% renewable. So, Nikhet, I wonder if you could repost yours, Nikhet, to all panellists and attendees, because I think only I can see, only I can see yours at the moment. Same with Emily, could you repost all panellists and attendees. So Michael's is for the fitness and nutrition crowd, okay, local scale system to capture organic waste streams and use for energy and compost. I think that's a fantastic goal. Yeah. And think about how you can scale that up as well, right? So, you know, you could start in that local community, fitness and nutrition community. But I'm sure that you're also part of networks, you know, at the local level, at the regional or national level that you can scale up. Great. Okay. Mothers out front getting your local utilities to fix leaks in the gas pipeline system. Yeah, okay.  My hometown community to wake up, actually wake up, raise awareness from the smallest scale. Okay, how can you turn that into a goal? What do you think could be your goal there, Priscilla? Like, maybe that everybody in your hometown is aware. And that's your goal kind of thing. Yeah, safe and clean footpaths. Yeah, I think Daniel, that's a really, you know, there's, there are obviously reasons why people use their cars or, you know, don't want to walk places and that could be one of them. So yeah, safe and clean footpaths. 100% usage of tote bags or cloth bags, complete ban of single use plastic. Yeah, absolutely. And at what level, what community do you think that could be Marion? All local schools powered by 100% renewable energy. Yep, like it. They kept proper waste management system, rainwater harvesting, solar energy generation. Great. Okay, green shipping, carpooling. Yep. Community in my neighborhood, goal free bus passes for everyone in the city. I really like that goal. I think it's great. Re-education, the use of papers, plastics. Fantastic. So I think these are all really great local goals. Think about, you know, how is this relevant to this kind of specific community I'm in? How does this leverage our resources, our unique power? And how can we make this into a story that could be replicated at scale, right? So I think as we're running out of time, I'm going to talk about how we're going to put these kind of learnings into practice. So one thing that I would like you to do, and for those of you who are new here, you might not know, but we have a Facebook group for all of you. So this was set up really for everybody who's taking part in these webinars and this training, and everybody who's, you know, who's organizing in the same way as you are towards the global climate strike. We've set up this kind of supporting group where we'll post information. You can ask questions. You can give advice or share learnings with your fellow participants. So thank you, Nona. Nona just put the link there into the Facebook group. If you want to click on that straight away, you can. You can click request to join right away. And after this webinar, I will approve you as a member of the group. And we'd like you to just post in your goals in there for discussion, you know, and see what other people come up with as well. Another thing we'd like to challenge you to do is in the next three days, please discuss your proposed goals with people. Bring that kind of, you know, that local goal that you thought about for your school or for your church or for your local community. Talk to people about it, you know, talk to people about the climate strikes, tell them why you're doing this, tell them, you know, your global goal, your national goal, and show them how we can actually make a difference at local level as well. And see if you can articulate together what are those goals right and use them for movement building. So I want to give you some resources to make sure you have the support that you need. And the first is the global climate strike website so hopefully you're familiar with this one already. But I'm just drawing your attention to it because just to let you know that the resources that were that are up there on the on the page, they're changing every day. So there's always something new. So for example, even in the trainings that we have coming up, we're adding new trainings, there's, there's, I don't know if it's already been but there's no not yet. There's a safety and risk planning training that's coming up tomorrow. And depending on where you are, you can double check the timing if you actually click on the time here, and it goes green. That takes you to a page where you can see what time that's going to be where you are so it converts the time to your time. So please do join that safety and risk planning webinar. It's going to be really useful. There's also a live coverage skills web webinar that's coming up and media training so so you have all the tools that you need to be able to get the word out about your climate strike.   And they're just really beautiful and free so so use them and share them. And I also want to let you know about the climate resistance handbook so this is where a lot of the concepts for these trainings have come from this free completely free ebook came out in July. With a forward by Greta Thunberg is by Daniel Hunter and is super relevant to the climate strikes it doesn't take long to read. You just scroll down and choose to click on your to download your PDF. So, just trying to navigate back to have way too many windows open back to there. So also, you know, if you have any questions that we don't get around to answering now do contact me at lucpcadena at 350.org. You can't remember that help at 350.org, but for the webinar stuff do contact me and let me just type into the chat. Oh, I wonder no no could you type my email address into the chat people. And you will get an email after this after this webinar where I'm going to give you all of those links and the resources I'm going to remind you to register for other topics and webinars. It's going to remind you of the Facebook group. So don't worry if you don't capture everything right now because we'll send it to you. And there's also going to be a survey that's going to pop up after this webinar. And it's optional, of course, but it will help us to monitor our progress in building this movement building it to be powerful and diverse. So you can indicate if you've already completed the survey you don't have to do it twice. So with all that, I think we probably have time for maybe one or two questions if there's any questions relating to the content on this webinar that I can help with. I'm just going to check our Q&A box we don't have anything in the Q&A box. So I wonder if anybody has any questions if you'd like to raise your hand or you can type it into the chat. Oh, there is a question from Timothy. Okay, how does that relate to strike with us? So the so global climate strikes dot net global climate strike net is the website of the coalition of partners who are joining for the global climate strike on the 20th to the 27th of September. So it's quite it's kind of particular to that. I believe that strike with us.org. I believe that that's from the school strikes movement. So that's that's specific to them. That's their that's their webpage. Just to let you know they're completely synced up. So we're working in partner with with the school strikes movement to make sure that you know we're not duplicating anything they're completely synced up all of the events on on strike with us are the same as the events on global climate strike dot net. It's just that global climate strike dot net is involving lots of different partners specifically for this moment here. I think that there was a question in the Q&A. So, Mariam's asking how to go about stories on climate change do you mean where to go to for stories on climate change. And so, I'm not quite sure exactly what you mean, Mariam, did you want to come on the mic and ask the question. In terms of where to go to for stories on climate change. And I think at the moment and in the next few moments. Oh, Mariam, would you like to unmute yourself so that I answer the correct question. You might need to unmute yourself. So click on the microphone icon. I don't think we can hear you. I'm just going to make sure that I that I can answer you though. We have we've we've actually been publishing a lot of different climate stories from all over the world in the lead up to to this global climate strike. If you go on Facebook you'll see or any social media channel really there's a bunch of different videos and also on the global climate strike net website.  And you scroll down in the multimedia hub. There's, there's loads of different case studies there's loads of videos and things that you can share of stories from people all over the world who are gearing up for the climate strikes. And I think it's got stories of impacted people stories from school strikers that kind of thing. Now I'm getting tons of questions and I'm afraid we only have one minute left so we're going to have to wrap up. So if I haven't asked answered your question, then please do post it into the into the Facebook group or email it to me. And he now Rajani the partners there's a full partners list on the climate strike net website so go to that website. And there's a full list and it's broken down into region as well. So, I'm really sorry but we're going to have to wrap up now but I want to say thank you very much everybody for joining. Thank you no no for doing the tech. Also thanks for being so engaged and participative during this webinar. You've made it a real joy. And I hope I hear from you again hope to see you on another webinar, maybe tomorrow or next week. So cheers everybody. Have a great rest of your day. Bye bye.


The results you guys have been getting are not what you're capable of. If you have the courage to change, you literally just change your entire bloodline. It is the secret to go to new levels. I swear to God, I've been at it for a minute. I'm into the top and this music was my ticket. Found a way to grind, turn a passion to a business, don't limit, I'ma get it, having millions as a witness.    You're like super shamed. Like, dude, I can't believe I did that. This is embarrassing. I'm never gonna come back from this. All right, so what we're gonna do is I wanna teach you guys some stuff today. Number one, we're gonna run a new play in 2024. So write this down. If I run the same play that I ran in 2023, I'm gonna get the same results in 2024 that I got in 2023 and that would be dumb. Okay, so everybody write down this word levels. There's levels to leveling up. If you wanna go to a new level, like Common Sense says that has to be a level. Now how do you get to a new level? Well, number one, you gotta max out the level you're currently on and that will put you on the bottom of another level. Okay, so I'm gonna show you guys how to scale levels really quick.    Or maybe, listen, hey guys, you know what? We're gonna, I want you to understand this. I have a massive business. Okay, we're streaming through social media. We get 150 million views every 28 days. I get thousands of DMs a day.  We coach people to make more money than know what to do with. I'm gonna tell you how I did it. I'm gonna tell you how you're gonna do it, okay?  So what we're gonna do right now is I want you to understand, when you take my advice from what I'm about to tell you to do, you're gonna have all these haters come out and they're gonna talk about what you did a long time ago and how they knew you were a bad person and you shouldn't deserve to go to this next era of life because of what you did a long time ago.    We're gonna empty all their bullets out.  You're gonna empty the bullets out of their gun. You're going to tell them everything you've ever done wrong. We're gonna own it all. You guys ready? Listen, I'm gonna tell you guys how we're gonna do this. I was raised poor, five brothers and sisters, Jerry Springer's show, mom left when I was two.  I never had more than $5 in my hand. I got a job in sales at 18. Made $1,700 in my first day on the job. Shit changed quick.  Okay, didn't go to college. Never liked to learn and all of a sudden I started to learn that if I became good at sales and good at leadership, I could make money. Now I want you to understand something. Everybody write this down, proximity. Proximity of the people that you hang out with will be ultimately who you become. Let me tell you who my leader was. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor. I'm gonna tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. My leader told me, listen Andy, you're either gonna give your life to work and make a lot of money, or you're gonna give your life to a family and make a lot of money.  He goes, do listen to me.  And you're gonna have to realize that one day you'll have plenty of time to go to the gym after you make a lot of money. Damn man, I had these leaders that were telling me I couldn't get it all. They were like, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. You gotta make money. So how am I trained? In my 20s I'm trained. I gotta make money. I gotta make money. I gotta make money. I gotta make money. I made a lot of money. I lost it all. All of it fell through my fingers. I lost it all. You know why? I had no good leaders. They didn't teach me how to operate with money. They didn't teach me to save my money. They didn't tell me to live below my means.  So the next month I had to show up hungry for work again. They told me that I couldn't have, my wife, she's sitting right here with me. I don't know if you guys can see her but she's right there. So what's up, baby girl? Yep, she's right there. I have my beautiful wife here with me right now. I was 26, she's 24. Guess what my manager told me? He goes, dude, you're gonna have to make a decision, bro. Okay, now what does this have to do with you making more money and running a new play in 2024? I'm about to get there real quick and I know you'll identify with me.   Everybody write down reprogram. We're gonna reprogram ourselves on this call right now. We're gonna reprogram. The results you guys have been getting are not what you're capable of. You're capable of 20 times more than what you're getting right now. You should look better. You should be different. You should be a better leader. You should operate different. You guys should be the standard setter in whatever it is that you do. Guys, this is our time right now. Men and women, this is our freaking time. Now, whenever I did get with my wife and I married her, my wife kept telling me that like Andy, the family's super important.  And she said when you fix the personal life, the business goes bam! And he goes through the roof. You get to keep the money you make.  Everybody write this down. Am I proud of my life? I'm gonna tell you guys something.  You know what I was proud of? I was proud of the paycheck day when I put the money in the bank. But I went home. I knew I was with my kids. I wasn't spending a lot of time with them because I was always freaking working. My wife wasn't admiring me. My children weren't choosing me as their hero. I looked in the mirror. I was disgusted with the way that I looked. I hated the way I looked, dude. I wasn't proud of me. But oh, everybody said I was doing great. I'm doing better than most. Dude, listen. I'm gonna tell you guys the play we're gonna freaking run, okay? And if you'll listen to me. If you have the courage to change, you literally just change your entire bloodline. Number one, the way that you're living right now, I guarantee it's a lie. Good chance that it's a lie that you've told yourself what's capable. You've put boundaries on you. Write this down. F boundaries. F boundaries. You put them on you. Okay, your family put them on you. Your friends put them on you. And that's the problem. Today we're breaking boundaries. There are no such things as boundaries. Those are things that you put on yourself. They are false. They don't exist. You've sold yourself a lie. Okay, now I need to tell you guys something super important.   You know what I learned?  No ways. Crabs in a bucket. Once you try to get out, they're gonna let you get out. No ways. I will tell you the greatest support you will ever get, ever in your life, will be from the future people that meet you as you become the new you.  But the people that have been with you more than likely will be the crickets. You guys know what crickets are, right? When you get near crickets, what do they do? They get quiet, you can't find them. But then when you walk away, they start screaming, right? They're crickets. What do we do to crickets?   Listen to me. The crickets, okay?  Now some of these crickets will scream in your face, but most will run their mouth when you're not around.  Do you know why? Because it took me until I was 39 years old. And listen guys, 39 years old to realize that physical fitness, getting in shape was the most important thing in my life. And once I fit, guys listen, you wanna change your life? Change your body first.  Change your language, no more I can't, no more I'm not good at that. Okay, stop complaining, stop whining. It's unattractive, right? Reason why we don't complain is first of all, nobody cares. But number two, it's ineffective. And it shows me what's going on in your head.  Okay, so language, body, focus. What are you focused on? In 2024, I need to know, are you willing to fight and build every single day for a new body? Are you willing to fight and build for the freaking greatest focus you've ever had intentional in your life? By the way, everybody do me a favor. In 2024, this is gonna be step number one in 2024. And I've said it a lot in number one. So you gotta write down number one like 19 times. Okay, my wife laughs at me. She's like, you love saying number one, two, three. Then we go back to one. Everybody write this down. Do things that are intentionally hard. This is gonna be step one for crushing it in 2024. And doing things that are intentionally hard means that I am getting up every day and intentionally, on purpose, doing things that are hard. And if I do things that are hard, when I make more calls than anybody else, when I wake up in the morning, when I don't want to, when I go ahead and put my phone down in the gym and put it on, do not disturb, so I don't mess with it, put my music on, grind for an hour and a half, when I do those things, when I do four straps, that means if I'm doing a set of 10 and then 10 it burns, I'm like, nah, you know what, I'm gonna do three more. I'm gonna do four more for me. I'm gonna make this, I'm gonna torture me intentionally. When that happens, do you know what happens?  You must learn the word intentional means to do on purpose. If I can get you guys addicted to intentionally doing hard stuff, me and my wife, I hated running.  But what I learned through the process is how to do things that I didn't want to do, which I will tell you is the secret to success. Okay, so it leads us to step number two. When you can be so disciplined that you'll do things that you don't want to do and find enjoyment in doing these things, that you know that everyone else don't want to do, you immediately go to a new level. It is the secret. It is the secret to go to new levels, to do things that you know that no one wants to do, including yourself, but to know that you have the courage to do them and find enjoyment. Guys, can I ask you a question? You want to feel a great euphoric feeling, something that just is indescribable, it feels so good? Be the only one in a group that wants to quit, but doesn't and push through. Matter of fact, be the only one in a group of society or people when everybody's quitting, complaining, whining, that doesn't and knows that you're not and actually increases yourself. I want you guys to understand something. You ready? Write this down. Increase testosterone, decrease cortisol. Everybody, I got to let you know how to win. It's called total immersion. So step three, whatever it is we're going to do, we're going to do it all the way, total immersion. Total immersion means we are going to go in deeper, harder, stronger, faster and crazier than anyone else ever has before into whatever it is we're going to do. Okay? All right, now listen, I'm going to tell you guys what happened. You guys are going to be qualified, okay? You guys are all qualified. If you're listening to me right now, number one, you're still alive. That means that you are capable of having the greatest success story that's ever existed. So I want to know who's going to get it because I'm going to tell you mine right now is pretty bad, but I want to tell you in 2012, I was running with some people that weren't the right people for me, okay? So everybody remember this, proximity is power. Run with the wrong people. Don't be surprised when you end up in a place that you didn't plan on being. When we run with the right people, don't be surprised when you end up in a place you didn't know you could ever get to. Who you running with? Okay, always find a bigger circle. Always find people who are crazier than you. Always find people who believe way bigger than you.  And are willing to do it again. Find people who have changed. Guys, the whole goal for 2024 is to change until you change.  And it's working, but I still grind every day for that thirst, it's a curse being first. Hey guys, I just want to tell you the true one percenters you made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor, share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications and then subscribe to the channel. We got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon. You'll be seeing my name on posters. You could call me POTUS. I got all the voters.


Chapter 39 of the Burgess Animal Book for Children. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Ava Harnick. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess. Chapter 39 Piggy and Heart Shell. The Bakery or Wild Pig and the Armadillo. All the way to school the next morning, Peter Rabbit did his best to guess who it might be that they were to learn about that day. Old Mother Nature said that he is related to someone who lives in Farmer Brown's barnyard, said Peter to himself. Now, who can it be? But try as he would, Peter couldn't think of anyone. He asked Jumper the head if he had guessed who it could be. Jumper shook his head. I haven't the least idea, said he. You know, I seldom leave the green forest and I never have been over to that barnyard in my life, so of course I don't know who lives there. Danny Meadow Mouse and Whitefoot, the Wood Mouse, were no wiser, nor was Johnny Chuck. But Chatterer, the Red Squirrel, it was plain to see. Was quite sure he knew who it was. Chatterer had been over to Farmer Brown so often to steal corn from the corn crib that he knew all about that barnyard and who lived there. But though Peter and the others teased him to tell them, he wouldn't. So when Old Mother Nature asked who had guessed to whom she had referred, Chatterer was the only one to reply. I think you must have meant the pig, who is always rooting about, and grunting in that barnyard, said he. Your guess is right, Chatterer, she replied, smiling at the little red-coated rascal. And this morning I will tell you a little about the relative of his who doesn't live in a barnyard but lives in the forest as free and independent as you are. It is Piggy, the Peccary, known as the Coloured Peccary, also called Wild Pig, Muskog, Texas Peccary, and Javelina.  You would know him for a pig right away, if you should see him. But in every other way, accepting his habit of rooting up the ground with his nose, he is a wholly different fellow. For one thing his legs, though short, are more slender, and he is a fast runner. There isn't a lazy bone in him, and he is too active to grow fat.   His hair is coarse and stiff, the kind of hair called bristles. From the back of his head along his back the bristles are long and stout. They are black at the tips, so that he appears to have a black back. When Piggy is angry he raises these long bristles so that they stand straight up, and this gives him a very fierce appearance. His color is so dark gray that at a distance he appears black. Indeed he is black on many parts of him. Just back of the neck a whitish band crosses the shoulders, and this is why he is called the colored peccary. You see, he seems to be wearing a color. On each jaw are two great pointed teeth called tusks. The two upper ones so long that they project beyond the lips. These tusks are Piggy's weapons, and very good ones they are. The home of Piggy the Peccary is in the hot south-western part of this country, where live Jaguar and Ocelot, the beautiful spotted members of the cat family. They are two of his enemies. He never likes to be alone, but lives with a band of his friends and they roam about together. He is found on the plains and among low hills, in swamps and dense forests, and among the sickets of cactus and other thorny plants that grow in dry regions. Plenty of food and shelter from the hot sun seem to be the main thing with Piggy. What does he eat? asked Peter Rabbit. Old Mother Nature laughed. It would be easier, Peter, to tell you what he doesn't eat, said she. He eats everything eatable, nuts, fruits, seeds, roots and plants of various kinds, insects, frogs, lizards, snakes and any small animals he can catch. Sometimes he does great damage to gardens and crops planted by men. He delights to root in the earth with his nose and often turns over much ground in this way, searching for roots good to eat. On the lower part of his back he carries a little bag of musky scent, and from this he gets the name of Muskhog. While as a rule he wisely runs from danger, he is no coward and will fight fiercely when cornered. His friends at once rush to help him and surround the enemy, who is usually glad to climb a tree to escape their gnashing tusks. However, he is not the fierce animal he has been reported to be ready to attack unprovoked. He will run away if he can. Mr. and Mrs. Peccary have two babies at a time. This is the last of the hoofed animals and the last but one of the land animals of this great country, so you see we are almost to the end of school. This last one is perhaps the queerest of all. It is heart shell the armadillo and belongs to the order of Ed and Tata, which means toothless. Do you mean to say that there are animals with no teeth at all, as happy Jack Squirrel looking as if he couldn't believe such a thing? Old Mother Nature nodded. That is just what I mean, said she. There are animals without any teeth though not in this country and others with so few teeth that they have been put in the same order with the holy toothless ones. Heart shell the armadillo is one of these.  But why do you call him heart shell? Asked Peter impatiently. Because instead of a coat of fur he wears a coat of shell, replied Old Mother Nature and then laughed right out at the funny expressions on the faces before her. It was quite clear that Peter and his friends were having hard work to believe. She was in earnest. They suspected her of joking. Do you mean that he lives in a sort of house that he carries with him like spotty the turtle? When should Peter? It is a shell but not like that of spotting, explained Old Mother Nature. Spotty's shell is all one piece, but armadillo's shell is jointed so that he can roll up like a ball. Spotty isn't a mammal as are all of you and all those we have been learning about, but is a reptile. Heart shell the armadillo on the other hand is a true mammal.  He is, replied Old Mother Nature. He's about the size of Uncle Billy Possum and if you can imagine a pig of about that size with very short legs, a long tapering tail, feet with toes and long claws and the shell covering his whole body, the front of his face and even his tail, you will have something of an idea what he looks like. He lives down in the hot south west where Piggy the Packery lives. His coat of shell is yellowish in color and is divided in the middle of his body into nine narrow bands or joints. Because of this he's called the nine-banded armadillo. In the countries to the south of this he has a cousin with three bands and another with six. Heart shell's head is very long and he carries it pointed straight down.  The shell of his tail is divided into many jointed rings so that he can move it at will. His tongue is long and sticky. This is so that he can run it out for some distance and sweep up the ends and insects on which he largely lives. His eyesight and hearing are not very good and having such a heavy stiff coat he is a poor runner. But he is a good digger. This means, of course, that he makes his home in a hole in the ground. When frightened he makes for this but if overtaken by an enemy he rolls up into a ball and is safe from all, save those with big and strong enough teeth to break through the joints of his shell. He eats some vegetable matter and is accused of eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds and of dead decayed flesh he may find. However, his food consists chiefly of ants, insects of various kinds and worms.  He is sometimes killed and eaten by men and his flesh is considered very good. He has from four to eight babies in the early spring. The baby armadillo has a soft tough skin instead of a shell and as it grows it hardens until by the time it is fully grown it has become a shell. Now this finishes the lessons about the land animals or mammals. There are other mammals who live in the ocean which is the salt water which surrounds the land and which I guess none of you have ever seen. Some of these come on shore and some never do. Tomorrow I will tell you just a little about them so that you will know something about all the animals of this great country which is called North America. That is, I will if you want me to. We do, of course we do, cried Peter Rabbit and it is plain that he spoke for all. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess Chapter 40 The Mammals of the Sea The sea otter, walrus, sea lions, seals, and manatee, or sea cow. It was the last day of Old Mother Nature's school in the green forest and when jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun had climbed high enough in the blue, blue sky to peep down through the trees, he found not one missing of the little people who had been learning so much about themselves, their relatives, neighbors, and all the other animals in every part of this great country. You see, not for anything in the world would one of them willingly have missed that last lesson. I told you yesterday, began Old Mother Nature, that the land is surrounded by water, salt water, sometimes called the ocean, and sometimes the sea. In this live the largest animals in all the great world, and many others, some of which sometimes come on land, and others which never do. One of those which come on land is first cousin to little Joe Otter, and is named the sea otter. He lives in the cold waters of the western ocean far north. He much resembles little Joe Otter, whom you all know, but has finer, handsomer fur. In fact, so handsome is his fur that he has been hunted for it until now. He is among the shyest and rarest of all animals, and has taken to living in the water practically all the time, rarely visiting land. He lies on his back in the water and gets his food from the bottom of the sea. It is chiefly clams and other shellfish. He rests on floating masses of sea plants. He is very playful and delights to toss pieces of seaweed from paw to paw as he lies floating on his back. Of course he is a wonderful swimmer and diver, otherwise he couldn't live in the sea. Another who comes on land but only for a very short distance from the water is called the walrus. He belongs to an order called finipedia, which means thin-footed. Instead of having legs and feet for walking, members of this order have limbs designed for swimming. These are more like fins or paddles at anything else and are called flippers. The walrus is so big that I can give you no idea how big he is, accepting to say that he will weigh two thousand pounds. He is simply a great mass of living flesh covered with a rough, very thick skin without hair. From his upper jaw two immense ivory tusks hang straight down and with these he digs up shellfish at the bottom of the sea. It is a terrible effort for him to move on shore and so he is content to stay within a few feet of the water. He also lives in the cold waters of the far north amidst floating ice. On this he often climbs out to lie for hours. His voice is a deep grunt or bellowing roar. The young are born on land close to the water. The sea lions belong to the same thin-footed order. The best known of these are the California sea lion and the fur seal, which is not a true seal. The California sea lion is also called the Barking sea lion because of its habit of barking and is the best known of the family. It is frequently seen on the rocks along the shore and on the islands off the western coast. These sea lions are sleek animals, exceedingly graceful in the water. They have long necks and carry their heads high. They are covered with short coarse hair and have small, sharp-pointed ears. Their front flippers have neither hair nor claws, but their hind flippers have webbed toes. They are able to move about on land surprisingly well for animals lacking regular legs and feet and can climb on and over rocks rapidly. Naturally, they are splendid swimmers. The largest member of the family is the stellar sea lion, who sometimes grows to be almost as big as a walrus. He is not sleek and graceful like his smaller cousin, but has an enormously thick neck and heavy shoulders. His voice is a roar rather than a bark. The head of an old sea lion is so much like that of a true lion that the name sea lion has been given this family. The most valuable member of the family, so far as man is concerned, is the fur seal, also called sea bear. It is very nearly the size and form of the California sea lion, but under the coarse outer hair, which is gray in color, is a wonderful, soft, fine, brown fur, and for this the fur seal has been hunted so persistently that there was real danger that soon the very last one would be killed. Now wise and needed laws protect the fur seals on their breeding grounds, which are certain islands in the far north. The young of all members of this family are born on shore, but soon take to the water. The fur seal migrates just as the birds do, but always returns to the place of its birth. Man and the polar bear are its enemies on land and ice, and the killer whale in the water. Mr. Fur Seal always has many wives, and this is true of the other members of the sea lion family and of the walrus. The males are three or four times the size of the females. Among themselves the males are fierce fighters. The true seals are short-necked, thick-bodied, and have rather round heads with no visible ears. The walrus and sea lions can turn their hind flippers forward to use as feet on land, but this the true seals cannot do. Therefore they are more clumsy out of water. Their front flippers are covered with hair. The one best known is the harbour or leopard seal. It is found along both coasts, often swimming far up big rivers. It is one of the smallest members of the family. Sometimes it is yellowish grey, spotted with black, and sometimes dark brown with light spots. The ringed seal is about the same size or a little smaller than the harbour seal, and is found as far north as it can find breathing holes in the ice. You know all these animals breathe air, just as land animals do. This seal looks much like the harbour seal, but is a little more slender. Another member of the family is the harp, saddleback, or greenland seal.  The female is not so handsome, being merely spotted. The handsomest seal is the ribbon seal. He is about the size of his cousin the harbour seal. He is also called the harlequin seal. Sometimes his coat is blackish brown and sometimes yellowish grey, but always he has a band of yellowish white like a broad ribbon from his throat around over the top of his head, and another band, which starts on his chest and goes over his shoulder, curves down, and finally goes around his body, not far above the hind flippers. Only the male is so marked. This seal is rather rare, like most of the others it lives in the cold waters of the far north. The largest of the seals is the elephant seal, once numerous, but killed by man until now there are few members of this branch of the family. He is a tremendous fellow and has a movable nose being several inches below his mouth. The queerest looking member of the family is the hooded seal. Mr. Seal of this branch of the family is rather large and on top of his nose he carries a large bag of skin which he can fill with air until he looks as if he were wearing a queer hood or bonnet. The seals complete the list of animals which live mostly in the water but come out on land or ice at times. Now I will tell you what a warm mammal, warm-blooded, just as you are, and air-breathing but which never comes on land. This is the manatee or sea-cow. It lives in the warm waters of the sunny south coming up from the sea in the big rivers. It is a very large animal, sometimes growing as big as a medium-sized walrus. The head is round, somewhat like that of a seal. The lips are thick and big. The upper one split in the middle. The eyes are small. It has but two flippers and these are set in at the shoulders. Instead of hind flippers such as the seals and sea lions have the manatee has a broad, flattened and rounded tail which is used as a propeller just as fish use their tails. The neck is short and large. In the water the manatee looks black. The skin is almost hairless. This curious animal lives on water-plants. Sometimes it will come close to a river bank and with head and shoulders out of water feed on the grasses which hang down from the bank. The babies are, of course, born in the water, as the manatee never comes on shore. Now I think this will end today's lesson and the school. Peter Rabbit hopped up excitedly. You said that the largest animals in the world live in the sea and you haven't told us what they are. He cried. So enough, Peter, replied Old Mother Nature pleasantly. The largest living animal is a whale. A true mammal and not a fish at all as some people appear to think. There are several kinds of whales some of them comparatively small and some the largest animals in the world so large that I cannot give you any idea of how big they are. Beside one of these the biggest walrus would look like a baby. The whales do not belong just to this country so I think we will not include them. Now we will close the school. I hope you have enjoyed learning as much as I have enjoyed teaching and I hope that what you have learned will be of use to you as long as you live. The more knowledge you possess the better fitted for your part in the work of the great world you will be. Don't forget that and never miss a chance to learn. And so ended Old Mother Nature's school in the Green Forest. One by one her little pupils thanked her for all she had taught them and then started for home. Peter Rabbit was the last. I know ever and ever so much more than I did when I first came to you but I guess that after all I know very little of all there is to know he said shyly which shows that Peter Rabbit really had learned a great deal. Then he started for the dear old Briar Patch. Lippity, Lippity, Lip. End of Chapter 40. End of The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess


Well, the moratorium on evictions has expired as of August 1st and now Millions of Americans face eviction Millions of Americans have unpaid rents or they're late on their rent. They have back rent owed and now There's no more federal protections for them. Yes, there is money being allocated at the state level sent by the federal government But yet not all of that money has been used In fact, just the small portion of that money has been used so additional action was necessary And we knew that additional action would be necessary back when the moratorium on evictions was extended to July 31st At the end of June, we knew okay That's 30 more days to act something has to be done But yet people in power in the Democratic Party leadership They didn't take the appropriate action Biden's administration Did nothing the CDC did nothing Congress did next to nothing and now we are facing a crisis of epic proportions That is going to leave millions of people without homes so Having been unhoused before Cory Bush is drawing attention to this issue by sleeping on the steps of the Capitol and what she's Doing is really really important here because this is a pure nightmare for the president It's a pure nightmare for individuals like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in Democratic Party leadership Who knew that this day was coming? But yet didn't take it seriously didn't act with the urgency needed to take things seriously And so the question is what needs to be done to extend the moratorium on evictions and who has the authority to do it and Currently all of the members of Democratic Party leadership are pointing towards each other and saying well No, you have to act and then the other will respond saying no you have to act and I wish I were kidding about this But this is actually what's happening first Biden's press secretary says that the president supported the CDC Extending the eviction moratorium But then three days before the latest eviction moratorium was said to expire Biden's administration then tried to pass the buck to Congress While doing absolutely nothing themselves Meanwhile Speaker Pelosi is calling on Biden to extend the eviction ban Implying that he has the authority to take the action that's necessary to stop this crisis But while the White House says it's quote unable to find a way to extend the eviction ban after previously saying that the CDC Should just do it well Biden's administration insists that again that it just doesn't have the legal authority needed to extend at the moratorium On evictions and after sharing all of these headlines Jordan all points out incredible leadership on display here And mind you this back-and-forth has continued for days now There's no action But the fact that they're scrambling in and of itself speaks to the success of Cory Bush's pressure campaign Because the spotlights on Joe Biden and Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and now they don't like that He does on them and it doesn't help especially when it comes to Nancy Pelosi for for the optics You know there that the house is gonna be on a recess for six weeks. They're not reconvening until September 20th So right before this crisis started that you knew was coming You all left and you didn't take meaningful action to stop it and now You're trying to point the finger at you know one person and the other person and we'll get to who I think is actually Ultimately a blame here but to speak to this back-and-forth Nancy Pelosi and Members of House Democratic Party leadership released a joint statement calling on the White House to extend the eviction moratorium And now after previously Supporting the idea of a CDC extension. Well now the White House is saying Okay, we talked to the CDC and it doesn't necessarily seem like they can do much either So this is per Jeff Stein of the Washington Post Biden asked CDC on Sunday to consider 30-day eviction moratorium where COVID is rampant But CDC director and her team have been unable to find legal authority for a new targeted eviction moratorium White House pushing states and cities to speed up the spending of the money that was sent to them So the Supreme Court ruled that the CDC doesn't have the legal authority to impose these moratoriums So the Biden administration talked to the CDC director and said can you find a more narrow eviction moratorium on areas? Hit the worst by COVID-19 and you know Rochelle Walensky said we just don't have the legal authority to do that Now meanwhile while Biden and Pelosi are pointing the fingers at each other the vice president weighed in and She was asked why the administration won't extend the eviction moratorium Administratively as House Democrats say they can do and then she responded saying it's an important issue Very important issue. She said to me in the Senate referring to CNN reporter Manu Raju Well, thank you so much for this bold statement madam vice president without your leadership without your courage here I don't think anyone would know what to do it So I'm so glad that you chimed in to tell us what we already know that this is very important I mean this just it is so bad for Democrats and again I want to remind you that they knew this day was coming But yet they're scrambling currently because finally somebody Cory Bush Decided to hold their feet to the fire and draw attention to this issue We are facing one of the most serious crises in the history of the United States where millions of people are about to be a victim from their homes and Those of you in power who were elected you don't know what to do So in terms of like who actually is to blame my answer is all of them They're all to blame Joe Biden the CDC Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer Everyone with power who's in leadership is to blame and it's because they should be doing everything they can right now To stop this crisis. So let me tell you what I would have done in this situation as President I would have directed the CDC to extend the moratorium on evictions regardless of what the courts had to say before and Then that sets up a legal challenge, of course They're gonna strike it down, but that buys you a little bit of time You tell them to extend the moratorium on evictions and you do what you can Via executive order to also maybe embolden the CDC here and on top of that while that's happening The house has to take action to extend it Legislatively through Congress as well. So all of these things can be done simultaneously you can also do everything in your power to assist states in being more efficient at getting out these funds because a lot of them They received this money and there was no like existing system that they had set up So they're trying to create the infrastructure to distribute the money that they got from the federal government to people to stop You know them from getting evicted and they're kind of left scrambling because they don't know what to do So we need more time currently is the issue and it doesn't matter that the CDC is going to get struck down in the courts If they you know extend this eviction moratorium do it anyway subvert their authority And do it anyway by time because you can't just allow this to happen as Congress goes on recess for six weeks and People are losing their homes. You can't allow it to happen But they are allowing it to happen and that's why I say they're all to blame They're all to blame because you knew this was coming and when we knew we had until the end of July That still wasn't enough But now the eviction moratorium has expired and only now they're taking it seriously and they wouldn't have taken this Seriously had Cory Bush not exerted a pressure on them had Cory Bush not got all of the mainstream media to pay attention to what she's doing right now So good on Cory Bush the fact that Democratic Party leadership cannot get their act together and they're busy playing the blame game is so Embarrassing this is gonna be a bad look come 2022 and they should all feel ashamed with themselves for not caring about this issue Because that's exactly what the issue is here. They don't care enough That's why they're only focusing on this now because somebody is forcing them to So this is a huge crisis that we are now dealing with who knows how many people have already been evicted. It's just it's bad


Brazilian football legend Pelle has died following a long battle with cancer, is agent Joel Frager and his family confirmed on Thursday. His daughter, Kelly Nassimento, took to Instagram as the news broke to post a tribute to her father, accompanied by a photo of family members holding his end as he rested in a hospital bed. Pelle had been hospitalized since November with multiple ailments, including a respiratory infection. Well, Joel Nassimento live to discuss this is Mouda Shirushito, his plus TV's African support anchor. Thank you so much for joining us tonight Mouda. Thank you very much. All right. What can you say about the life and times of the great football legend and how is the world reacting to his death? He will surely be missed because he was one of the first global icons in the world, not just football, but beyond football. Second, next to him is the late Mohamed Ali, these two athletes brought global recognition to the world of football. Pelle just made us the world that goes beyond just being a talented footballer to one of the most popular athletes across the globe.  And he is the only player across the globe to have won three World Cups. And for more than 60 years, the name Pelle has been synonymous with soccer. He played in four World Cups and is the only player in history to win three World Cups. His legacy straight forward beyond his trophy and a remarkable goalscoring record is a perfect gentleman and both on and off the field. He has is a perfect example of what a soccer player is. And if you look at how humble his background is, as a child, his first taste of soccer involved playing with barefoot and with socks and rags and rolled up into a ball, a humble beginning that could go into a longer and a fruitful career. But let us look at it as the fact that in 2015, we all know what he did. He was famous in Brazil, not just in Brazil, beyond like I said, a global football. It was a role model to a lot of people. And let's not forget, in 1958 World Cup, when he made his World Cup debut for Brazil, H17, it's called Brazil, only goal in that quarterfinal victory against Wales and then went on to score a hat-trick in the semifinal against France. And before he did a two goal against Sweden, and he was in 1952 World Cup. So you can see how fantastic he, fantastic football icon is. And let's not forget, the issue of his death started from years ago when he was diagnosed for colon cancer. And he has been able, he has been on and off the field. So I think he's going to be remembered and the celebration of himself, his life, they will not just end today. It's something we continue talking for a very long time. And that's also the exit of the icon. Let's not forget, three years ago, another footballing legend, the grandma and daughter of Brazil died. So it's a continuous one, a continuous life of celebration for the Brazilian soccer legend who died just today at the age of 82. I hope, ladies and gentlemen, so rest in peace. Thank you so much for joining us on the news tonight, Moda Shiro.