Name: Xavi Solish

Social Justice Group: Global Warming (A)

Date of Fieldwork: February 4, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

My partner Harvey and I spoke with Keanu Arpels-Josiah, a former LREI student and climate activist who works for Fridays for Future. He told us how important it is to speak out about climate change and to push for a better future. He said how important it is to find common ground with the people who don’t believe in the climate crisis and call it a hoax.

He spoke strongly about how there is still hope for the future. He said that I lot of people tried to ignore climate change. Keanu said that this is the worst thing that could be done as well as letting the people who don’t believe that climate change is real have a voice in what is best for the planet that we live on. The most important thing that we can do is to get outside and have our voice heard and speak out on what we to do to help our planet.