There’s a thin bit of cord that surrounds a smattering of tents and people, older and younger alike, while the sound of hammers pounding tent nails rings in the air. A soccer ball goes back and forth between campers wearing keffiyehs and a Palestinian flag whips in the evening wind.

Young activists from Sonoma, Kern, and San Diego counties began marching 266 miles from Paradise to San Francisco to pressure Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein to support an ambitious and equity-focused Civilian Climate Corps. The CCC would employ thousands to combat the climate crisis and is the first piece of