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Reflecting on the Climate Strike

Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness · October 2, 2019 · Leave a Comment

On Friday, September 20, 2019 NC Interfaith Power and Light participated in the biggest climate strike in North Carolina history. Raleigh’s event was only one strike in the hundreds that happened all over the world for the Global Climate Strike. It was the largest worldwide climate mobilization ever and the largest youth-led mobilization on any issue in history. It was estimated that 1500 youth climate leaders and adult allies came out to Raleigh striking to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis.

The photos below are just a snapshot of the passion and energy that was seen and felt at the Raleigh Climate Strike. Don’t miss our youth-made video of participants sharing their reasons for striking! We hope the photos and video below inspire you to take action in your own faith communities!

Rishi Ranabothu, Intern & Youth Leaders Initiative Founder, Sarah Ogletree, NCIPL Program Coordinator, Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director of the NC Council of Churches, Susannah Tuttle, Director of NC Interfaith Power and Light, and Michelle Peedin, NCIPL Youth Leaders Coordinator

Gary Smith, Chair of NCIPL Energy Working Group, with his group Community United Church of Christ in Raleigh.

Gary, Connie, Diana from Pittsboro Presbyterian Church

Sue Barnett from Unitarian Universalist PEACE Fellowship, Raleigh with NCIPL Program Coordinator, Sarah Ogletree

The Rev. Pat Watkins and the Rev. Dr. Denise Honeycutt from the United Methodist Church Caretakers of Gods Creation Community.

Michelle Peedin, NCIPL Youth Leaders Coordinator

Phill Wilson from United Church of Chapel Hill

Becca Lamb, Michelle Peedin, NCIPL’s Youth Leaders Coordinator, and Avery Davis Lamb, previously with IPL DMV

Rishi Ranabothu, Tristan Peedin, Zeke DeGette

NCIPL Team: Michelle Peedin – Youth Leaders Coordinator, Sarah Ogletree – Program Coordinator, and Susannah Tuttle – Director of NC Interfaith Power and Light

NCIPL Youth Leaders Initiative – “For The Love Of” Video

Here is a video that one of our youth made. Tristan Peedin, 16 years old, interviewed and edited this compilation video of strikers at the Climate Strike last Friday in Raleigh, NC. At NCIPL we recognize that storytelling is a powerful way to educate, inspire, and mobilize this climate justice movement.We asked each interviewee to share with us their “For the love of” reason for striking! The ages range from 7-61! An intergenerational movement led by the youth – the generation who will carry the most weight of this climate crisis.

To learn more about NCIPL’s Youth Leaders Initiative or our newly forming network, Click Here. 

More Photos from the Raleigh Climate Strike

Filed Under: Blog, Homepage Featured Tagged With: Environment

Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness

About Michelle Peedin, Program Coordinator, Partners in Health and Wholeness

Michelle was born and raised in North Carolina. She pursued her higher education at UNC Chapel Hill where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies, with a concentration in economics, trade, and development, and a minor in music. Identifying as first generation Peruvian-American, Michelle's area of study while at UNC was Latin America. She credits her time studying in Ireland and volunteering in Costa Rica for how she was shaped both personally and professionally during her undergraduate time. She continued her educational experience as a Fellow at Student Action with Farmworkers, a non-profit organization in Durham, NC. Since February of 2017, Michelle continues to spend her time at the Council working with Partners in Health and Wholeness. She seeks to listen, learn from, and empower all communities of NC to pursue a just future for all beings on earth. In her downtime Michelle loves to travel and sing in a barbershop chorus.

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