Image by María Fuentes.

A dangerous myth is brewing in the US: Gen Z isn’t interested in protesting.

Hundreds have taken to social media sites to question and scold young people’s lack of appearance at recent anti-Trump protests like “Hands Off” and “No Kings.” The theories for why Gen Z is “checked out” range from the keen observation that Gen Z can’t afford rent to snarky remarks about social media-induced apathy.

We might not be at some of the recent large anti-Trump marches en masse. But Gen Z sure as hell is still organizing. We’re the generation that brought strikes for climate and encampments for Palestine to the mainstream. In the face a polycrisis of economic instability, fascism, and climate change, protests are on the rise – and are increasingly led by youth.

The difference between Gen Z’s activism and the recent large anti-Trump marches is this: we’re not simply calling for a return to Democratic party leadership. The Democratic Party is the one that ignored our calls for climate justice and charged students with terrorism for begging their schools not to profit from genocide. Over 3,000 college students were arrested or detained while protesting the genocide of Palestinians........

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