Young people, many movements.
We are a movement of young people working for climate, social and economic justice, for a culture that includes everyone, and for everyone’s right to the natural world.
W.A.I.C. U.P. · World Accountability // Illustrating Communities // Uniting People
We build campaigns and partnerships that open up green space to young queer, BIPOC and working-class people, and connect them to the places worth protecting.
Murals, fashion, music and storytelling: we give artists and organizers resources and platforms to drive social change.
Working with the House of Lords, the EU Parliament and the White House, we have delivered hundreds of thousands of petition signatures for people and planetary health.
We report the stories others overlook, from frontline communities around the world. In 2024 alone: five op-eds and eight TV features.
A creativity-driven charity for social impact.
At the United Nations’ first-ever Youth Climate Summit, OneMillionOfUs was officially launched to the public. Throughout 2019, WaicUp co-organized the UK’s largest climate protest, bringing together 100,000 students in a mass demonstration for climate action. Building on that momentum, we worked with Indigenous leader Chief Raoni to present a petition of 111,475 signatures to the UK House of Lords.
With Voters of Tomorrow, we launched Prom at the Polls: giving our generation the prom we lost to the pandemic while turning out to vote. The campaign reached over 3.2 million young people nationwide.
Mobilizing over 111,475 petition signatures, WaicUp.org helped pause the proposed West Cumbria coal mine and raised engagement with UK climate policy by 1,567%. As of 2024, after our continued advocacy, the mine has been halted. Through YouthInGov, OneMillionOfUs also called on elected officials to create an Office of Young Americans in the Executive Office of the President.
Through Legalize Love, we partnered with the United Nations to advocate for persecuted queer refugees. Our work reached over one million people and led to the UN’s first recognition of LGBTQ+ communities as vulnerable to climate change.
Active in over 12 countries, The Climate Reporter platforms Indigenous communities, people on the frontlines of the climate crisis and young people advancing social justice where they live, and connects their stories to major news coverage.
We became WaicUp.org, bringing Legalize Love, OneMillionOfUs, The Climate Reporter, School Strikes for Climate and Stop West Cumbria Coal Mine together under one banner: a hub for social impact that backs activists and artists and defends marginalized voices worldwide.
As wildfires tore through Los Angeles, The Climate Reporter opened the year with “Playing with Fire,” on the global cost of climate inaction. We widened our work across culture, climate and civic life, with each campaign keeping its own voice and community.
This year we are putting our connection to nature at the center of the work: building campaigns that get young queer, BIPOC and marginalized people outdoors, into green space and into the movement on their own terms.
We sit where creativity meets social change. By working with communities and backing artistic expression, we take on pressing issues and inspire the next generation to act.
