Article snippet: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday praised the climate change activists who are striking on Black Friday, urging them to “stay strong in this fight!” Climate change activists across the globe opted to protest what they consider a climate “crisis” on the biggest shopping day of the year, disrupting shoppers at the Water Tower Place shopping mall in Chicago, Illinois, and holding a “Black Friday Funeral For Future” in the nation’s capital: Warren emphatically expressed her support for their efforts. “Climate change is an existential threat, and it’s going to take a grassroots movement ready to fight for big, structural change to defeat it,” Warren wrote. “I’m standing with the young activists on #ClimateStrike today—stay strong in this fight!”: While protests, indeed, broke out across the globe, the protest in D.C. featured a funeral procession to “draw attention to the crisis and show that business, as usual, can not continue.” “We’ll gather on the Southeast lawn of the Capitol to eulogize and mourn all that has been lost and all that is threatened by the climate crisis,” the event’s description reads. “All those with hopes and dreams who cherish the future are invited to gather in the shadow of the Halls of Congress. The ceremonial closed-casket funeral will conclude with a funeral procession through the streets of Washington, DC,” it added, quoting activists who called petroleum a “plague” and the “black death of our generation.” “We’re bringing the loss of ... Link to the full article to read more