5 Young Female Activists Changing the World

They're striking to save the climate and fighting for justice. These five young women activists are changing the world.

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00:31My message to young people is that we need to realize what the older generations have done to us

00:39and keep doing in this very moment and will not stop until something happens.

00:45And we need to hold them accountable for this mess they have created.

01:00What is your message to young people?

01:11I noticed a revolutionary poem.

01:14At the beginning of the protests, it was a short poem.

01:18It says, the bullet does not kill, it kills the silence.

01:21But it is a very long poem.

01:23It is a realistic poem.

01:25It is very emotional.

01:27It describes the revolution in a very precise way.

01:45I do not believe in politics.

01:47I believe in myself and the people.

01:55What is your message to young people?

02:01Information is an extremely powerful tool in the struggle.

02:06And, let's say, at the rallies, the difficulties that I face,

02:14they make me protest further.

02:20That is why I do not feel fear or anything like that.

02:51Missing and murdered indigenous women is an epidemic

02:55that you cannot really ignore when it is happening to your family and your community.

03:00And to me, when I realized that I could use the state track meet

03:04as an opportunity to present this issue, it was something that I knew I needed to do.

03:09Violence against women acts need to be taken seriously

03:14and really understood that this is an epidemic and it is genocide.

03:40I cannot support violence in any way.

03:43I cannot see someone die and say, oh, that's okay.

03:53I wanted to be a powerful and defiant bolero.

03:57It is easier to ignore these things, but we have to talk about it.

04:01If we ignore it, nothing is going to change.

04:04For us, we wanted her to be like she survived this even though he thought he killed her,

04:14but he didn't and she starts recomposing herself little by little until she goes her own way.