With a focus on social movements as tools for citizen participation in global movements, I turn to the Fridays for Future movement. Started by Greta Thunberg in 2018, the movement has garnered worldwide support and has been able to mobilize and target historically underrepresented groups in politics; namely children in politics. Because they are under the legal voting age, it is easy for minors’ voices to be overshadowed by the adults in positions of power in the realm of political movement. Thunberg was able to harness her strength as a figurehead for children in political movement in order to galvanize the world.
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