Biography of activists

Telegram Greta Tunberg about the environmental problems of Greta found out when she was eight years old. The changes that occur with our world because of ourselves, and the inaction of the adults struck her so that Tunberg brought himself to depression. To change the world, as it should be good girls, Greta began with herself - refused meat, flights and unreasonable consumption. Then she lured her parents to the side of eco-activism: the tunbergs were installed in the house solar panels, began to move on bicycles and grow vegetables on the suburban area.

Even the mother of the girl, the famous Swedish opera singer Malena Erman, had to abandon the aircraft without prejudice to his career and transfer to the train less malicious for the ecology. In August, in order to attract the attention of politicians to the environmental problems of Sweden, Greta - three weeks before the parliamentary elections, began to go out on the pickets near the RICSDAG building instead of the school.

With a bright poster - "School strike for the climate." In addition, Tunberg wrote the devastating essay "Sweden is not an example to follow." Then, several dozen people joined the schoolgirl's protest, and the media drew attention to the young activist. After the election, Greta returned to school, but only for 4 days a week - on Fridays she continued to go to the pickets to the parliament building and call on the other not indifferent to the fate of the planet to join her struggle.

The example turned out to be contagious: now on Instagram under the official hashtag initiatives of the fridaysForfuture of thousands of publications. In January, the girl performed at the International Economic Forum in Davos, in March she became a nominee for the Nobel Prize of the World, and a couple of days ago, during a performance at the Climate Summit, the UN accused world leaders of "stolen empty chatter of dreams and childhood." Disputes about this performance are still not silent.

But, despite all the criticism in his direction, Greta copes with the task of attracting attention and giving wide publicity to the problems of ecology - never the anthropogenic change in the surrounding world has excited the minds of millions of the planet. Malala Yusufzai Malala comes from the Pakistani district of Svat border with Afghanistan. Her father, the director of a local school, always encouraged his daughter’s desire to study and believed that girls should be educated with boys along with the boys - the conviction by local standards is very radical.

At the age of 11, Malala began to conduct a blog for BBC under the pseudonym Gul Mahai in translation from the language of Urdu “Vasille”, in which she talked about an unstable situation in the region, controlled by the Taliban, and shared her thoughts about female education. After signing the contract between Islamabad and the leaders of the movement in the matchmaker, Sharia laws began to operate.

They proclaimed the “liberation of the women of the East” - including from education. Malale, like other girls, was forbidden to go to school. After the operation to displace the Taliban from the region, the legal proceedings on the basis of Sharia were canceled. The girls were again allowed to go to lessons.

Malala and her father organized a campaign to protect children's rights to education. The activist starred in the documentary “Gul Mahai” and revealed her personality, standing behind the famous blog. An urgent flight the girl was delivered to the UK. The bullet passed over the head and neck, but the efforts of the doctors Malala managed to save. Later, the activist said in an interview with Forbes: "On that day, my weaknesses and fears died, power was born." Malala became a symbol of the struggle of women around the world for the right to education.

Her first public performance after the attempt took place on his birthday - and immediately at the UN assembly. Then there were meetings with the first persons of the states, the book “I am Malala”, the Nobel Prize of the World in the year and the title of ambassador of the world. In the year, Malala entered the University of Oxford, study philosophy, politics and economics.

In the year, for the first time in six years after the attack, the girl returned to her homeland to Pakistan-for a meeting with the Prime Minister. Malala says that now in her plans to find a balance between student life and activities within the framework of the Malala Foundation. Sophie Cruz Sophie Cruz was born in the USA and is a full citizen of this country, unlike her parents, Mexican immigrants who are not entitled to permanent residence in America.

The girl was very scared that because of the bureaucracy, her mother and dad could be deported. At the age of five, she decided that she needed to take the initiative into her own hands and begin to act. In the year, when the Pope Francis came to Washington, Sophie, uniting with a group of activists from Los Angeles, handed over a pontiff drawing and a letter asking him to raise the question of illegal immigrants.

Pictures of the head of the Catholic Church and a little girl, dressed in a traditional Mexican costume, appeared in the media around the world, and Pope Francis really raised the question of immigrants in Congress. Sophie did not stop there - the girl wrote a letter to Barack Obama, in response to which she received an invitation to the White House. By that time, the title of “face of American immigration reform” had already been entrenched in the girl.During the political debate of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the activist asked the presidential candidates the question of emigrants.

During the female march in Washington, Sophie Cruz made a speech, becoming the youngest participant in the protest: “Let's fight with love, faith and courage so that our families are not destroyed.” A joke Martinez This summer young man fights for the ecology of the planet almost from the diapers. When he was six years old, he first spoke in front of a couple of hundred people with a call to act to protect nature.

When I was six, I realized that we ourselves support them. We are those who fuel the destruction of the planet with their money. ” Over the years, the joke moved from words to business. When he was nine, he with a group of like -minded people opposed the spraying of harmful chemicals in Baulder's public parks. The joke admits that it was a big victory. In the year, the boy received the US presidential prize for the volunteer service and became a member of the Youth Council of President Obama.

In the year, the joke spoke at the UN, and in M ​​became one of the more than 20 young activists who had a claim to the federal government and demanded actions to combat climate change. Now the jokesat Martinez works as the director of the Earth Guardians, which he founded by the World Environmental Protection Organization, which unites activists and artists fighting for the ecology.

How will NOW work, it is not yet clear-it is expected that it will be a kind of Netflix to combat the climatic crisis. Sonita Alizade Sonita Alizade was born in Afghanistan when the country was under the rule of the Taliban. Her family fled to Iran, where the girl had to work as a cleaner. For the first time, they tried to forcibly marry money for money when Sinita was 10 years old - this is a common practice in many Muslim countries, but the engagement did not take place.

The family’s stay in Iran was illegal, so the girl could not attend the school, but she managed to find an organization that provides primary education in Afghan refugees. Then Sonita discovered a passion for music and art. At first she was fascinated by pop artists, but when she heard such artists as Eminem and Yas, she realized that she wanted to read rap. Despite the fact that in Iran for a girl alone to work in this genre illegally, Sonita writes his first tracks - about children's work, refugees and a war in Afghanistan.

At 16, Sonita found out that her parents still sold her in marriage. The family needed money to pay for his wife for his brother Sonita. Then she wrote the song Daughters for Sale, with the help of a familiar director she shot a clip and laid it on YouTube. The lines like “I scream about the exhausted body in a cage, the body that broke under the price tag that you hung” convinced the girl’s parents to sell her such fate, not only Sena, but also her younger sister.

And the song Daughters for Sale has become a hymn encountered with forced marriages of girls in Afghanistan and other countries. Now her dream is “to become a lawyer who knows how to read rap” and develop new legislation against forced marriages. Desmond Polos Desmond Polos for 12 years, and he, perhaps, is the most famous drag in the world. For the first time, he showed interest in Dreg culture when, at two years old, he watched the Ru RuPol Race Races with his mother.

At first, the boy’s parents were concerned about his hobby, afraid of the condemnation of society, and even turned to a psychologist, but the specialist advised not to interfere with the child to express himself. Then Desmond the magnificent stage name of the boy crossed from improvised bows from the sheets, towels and mother’s shoes on his own bright dresses, skirts and wigs. Desmond gained fame after participating in the New York Gay Pavel in the year.

Then the boy’s first fans began to appear in the boy in a rainbow pack. Now there are thousands of subscribers on the Dreg-Rubenka page on Instagram. Over the past four years, he managed to star in that same Rupol show, go through the Gypsy Sport catwalk during a fashion week in New York and even open the “first drag club for children”. Desmond is an active member and fighter for the rights of the LGBT community.

Despite a huge amount of criticism of the boy and his family, Desmond continues his activities - under the motto “always be yourself”. Instagram Content This Content Can Also Beewed On the Site It Originates from. Photo: Gettyimages.