PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 16, 2022
If you hold white privilege, you can discover and recognize how you benefit from the system built on the backs of others. I ask you to use your privilege to plug into your community, into the issues you care about. Listen to learn, meet people and come to understand them. You will find we all fight for the same thing; for our families, for our communities, for our home. In the meanwhile youth will continue the charge against anthropogenic climate change, the single biggest threat to humanity in our time. We youth leaders will continue to recognize the role of the original stewards of the land since time immemorial and present. ~ Deb Paredes-Martinez, youth organizer, greater Bangor area