Kids all over the country are walking out of school to take part in the youth led movement to spur climate action Friday.
Hundreds marched around the block at the State Capitol in Lansing with signs and chants as part of the Lansing Climate Strike.
People of all ages chanted about fossil fuels and held up colorful handmade signs of the earth burning and a large black cardboard coffin.
They marched from the capitol to the sidewalk below Senator Gary Peters office.
Jessica Diaz, is a student at Michigan State University and a member of the Sunrise movement...a group that lobbies for the Green New Deal and climate action from politicians.
She says the politicians aren’t hearing them and they’ve taken things into their own hands.
“We know that we have to fight this fight that policy makers aren’t doing. We’ve repeatedly asked them ‘will you support the green new deal? Will you stop taking fossil fuel money?’ And they still haven’t done that. So, if they’re not going to speak up for us then we’re speaking up for ourselves.”
The climate strikes are happening before a U.N. summit on Climate change in New York that begins on Monday.