Stand Up for Change
Suitable for grades 8-12
Severn Cullis-Suzuki shares the stage with young activists Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Tim Harvey, D. Simon Jackson and Lyndsay Poaps. They discuss how they started out and what other young people can do.
Writer Bio
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the daughter of David Suzuki, has been speaking out on social justice and environmental issues since she was a child, founding the Environmental Children’s Organization at age nine. In 1992, when she was 12, she gave a passionate speech at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. She is a commissioner for the Earth Charter and spearheaded the Recognition of Responsibility pledge, taking it to the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 and on tour in Japan. She is co-editor of and a contributor of Notes from Canada’s Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change and is currently studying ethnoecology at the University of Victoria. (bio current at February 2010)
Books Discussed:
Notes from Canada’s Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change by Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Acknowledgements
Taped live at the 2007 Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival. The creation of this video was made possible by CBC British Columbia, Langara College Film Arts Alumni, the Vancouver International Writers Festival, TELUS.
