“That perspective doesn’t acknowledge the social impacts of fossil fuel divestment as a movement. This movement has empowered thousands of young people around the world to be skilled community organizers with an understanding of climate change that challenges systemic power and inequity.” and has taken on different meanings for different people throughout the years. It became a popular identifier for Mexican-Americans in the 1960s as they sought to establish traditions and ways of understanding their communities that existed outside of Anglo notions of Americanness. In many ways, the Chicanx movement was at once an effort to define a national identity as well as a national consciousness among Mexican-Americans; along with it came the realization that the community itselfwas deeply divided Editor's note: The author of this piece has previously made small financial contributions to LGBT Books to Prisoners and Tranzmission.Get the Teen Vogue Take.Sign up for theTeen Vogueweekly emailRelated: call to action at the United Nations climate change summitwhich led to a Nobel Peace Prize nomination,Sunrise pushing forward the Green New Dealand the ongoing school strikes around the world —including one held on March 15—