CAPITALISM IS NOT SUSTAINABLE DESPITE FAME
PROTEST IS NOT A CHALLENGE TO CAPITALISM
ONE MORE STEP FROM PROTEST TO CREATING THE NEW SOCIETY
PROTEST IS NOT A CHALLENGE TO CAPITALISM
ONE MORE STEP FROM PROTEST TO CREATING THE NEW SOCIETY
WITHIN THE SHELL OF THE OLD BY CREATING SELF MANAGED
ORGANS OF DUAL POWER
30/01/2020 ADDED MY MEMES BELOW
Issued on: 29/01/2020
Stockholm (AFP)
Teen eco warrior Greta Thunberg said Wednesday she has registered both her own name and her "Fridays For Future" global protest movement as trademarks in order to prevent them from being hijacked for fraudulent purposes.
"My name and the #FridaysForFuture movement are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever," the 17-year-old Swede wrote on her Instagram account.
"I assure you, I and the other school strikers have absolutely no interests in trademarks. But unfortunately it needs to be done."
She complained that "there are still people who are trying to impersonate me or falsely claim that they 'represent' me in order to communicate with high profile people, politicians, media, artists etc."
There had also been instances of marketing, product selling and people collecting money "in my and the movement's name," she wrote.
"That is why I've applied to register my name, Fridays For Future,... as trademarks. This action is to protect the movement and its activities."
Thunberg, whose protests have attracted millions of young people across the globe, also said she was setting up a non-profit making foundation to handle the financial side of "Fridays for Future", such as book royalties, donations and prize money.
She insisted that the foundation would be "completely transparent," for example, with regard to the taxes it has to pay.
"The foundation's aim will be to promote ecological, climatic and social sustainability, as well as mental health," the campaigner wrote.
Thunberg's climate struggle began quietly in August 2018 when she skipped school for the first three weeks, and then on Fridays to spend the day outside Sweden's parliament with a sign labelled "School strike for climate".
Since then, she has become the face behind the global protest movement, particularly for young people.
Thunberg has also come under ferocious attack from climate changes deniers, who accuse her of being manipulated by a "green lobby".
© 2020 AFP
ORGANS OF DUAL POWER
30/01/2020 ADDED MY MEMES BELOW
Issued on: 29/01/2020
Stockholm (AFP)
Teen eco warrior Greta Thunberg said Wednesday she has registered both her own name and her "Fridays For Future" global protest movement as trademarks in order to prevent them from being hijacked for fraudulent purposes.
"My name and the #FridaysForFuture movement are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever," the 17-year-old Swede wrote on her Instagram account.
"I assure you, I and the other school strikers have absolutely no interests in trademarks. But unfortunately it needs to be done."
She complained that "there are still people who are trying to impersonate me or falsely claim that they 'represent' me in order to communicate with high profile people, politicians, media, artists etc."
There had also been instances of marketing, product selling and people collecting money "in my and the movement's name," she wrote.
"That is why I've applied to register my name, Fridays For Future,... as trademarks. This action is to protect the movement and its activities."
Thunberg, whose protests have attracted millions of young people across the globe, also said she was setting up a non-profit making foundation to handle the financial side of "Fridays for Future", such as book royalties, donations and prize money.
She insisted that the foundation would be "completely transparent," for example, with regard to the taxes it has to pay.
"The foundation's aim will be to promote ecological, climatic and social sustainability, as well as mental health," the campaigner wrote.
Thunberg's climate struggle began quietly in August 2018 when she skipped school for the first three weeks, and then on Fridays to spend the day outside Sweden's parliament with a sign labelled "School strike for climate".
Since then, she has become the face behind the global protest movement, particularly for young people.
Thunberg has also come under ferocious attack from climate changes deniers, who accuse her of being manipulated by a "green lobby".
© 2020 AFP
Greta Thunberg seeks to trademark her name and movement
The 17-year-old climate activist said the trademark was meant "to protect the movement" from being used for commercial purposes. Thunberg has also set up a foundation to be transparent about the movement's financing.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is seeking to trademark her name and the Fridays for Future campaign in a move meant "to protect the movement and its activities," she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.
In her post on the photo sharing platform, Thunberg said she and her fellow school strikers have "absolutely no interests in trademarks, but unfortunately it needs to be done."
The trademarks would cover the 17-year-old Swede's name, as well as the name of the "Fridays for Future" movement and 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' (which translates as "School strike for the climate" in Swedish), the slogan on a sign she held during her weekly solo climate protests outside of Sweden's parliament which inspired similar protests by other activists.
Thunberg was named Time's Person of the Year in 2019 for her climate action.
The climate activist said the trademark was needed because her name and that of the movement "are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever."
"It happens, for instance, in marketing, selling of products and people collecting money in my and the movement's name," she wrote.
"Fridays For Future is a global movement founded by me. It belongs to anyone taking part in it, above all the young people. It can — and must — not be used for individual or commercial purposes," she added.
Thunberg also announced that she and her family were setting up a foundation "for handling money (book royalties, donations, prize money etc.) in a completely transparent way."
Thunberg was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2019 for her climate activism. Earlier this month she attended the Global Economic Forum in Davos, where she and her fellow activists urged world leaders and politicians to listen to climate activists and to take action on global warming.
No comments:
Post a Comment