Youth organizations all over the world have arisen to address the issues and problems they will inherent during their adult lives. From a lower voting age to gun violence and climate change, young people are using their voices to seek change in the world around them. After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, students spoke out against gun violence and rallied thousands of young people across the country to their cause. They sponsored the March for Our Lives protests that occurred nationwide in March 2018, including an event in Boston that attracted tens of thousands of protesters. Less than six months later in August 2018, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg began her one-person school boycott, skipping class on Fridays, in protest of the Swedish government’s inaction on climate change.

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Photographs from Boston’s chapter of the March for our Lives.

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Photographs taken of protests led by Greta Thunberg. Left: Her original school strike in August 2018. Right: She speaks to thousands at a climate rally in December of the same year.