The young people taking part in Friday’s strike called on the government Running the environmental movements in the past. Young women, many of whom are rejecting the role of men who have been The movement is being driven almost exclusively by teenage girls and Now up to 70,000 school students are striking every week – in at leastĢ70 different cities and towns, – under the tag #FridaysForFuture. Since the new year, they have spread even further to countries acrossĪfrica and South America, with strikes in Colombia, Uganda, Nigeria,
Including in Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, the US and Canada. Of students had joined them, mostly in Europe and North America, “And we have to continue like this, every day, or every week, or every month, just to continue putting pressure on people in power.” “They should not let anyone tell them not to do this, because it is our future and our choice,” she said. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish student who started the Friday strike movement in August last year by striking outside the parliament in Stockholm, said that her message to the students striking in the UK was the same as to students striking everywhere. “Climate over capitalism” and chanting “Whose future? Our future.” Marching to the Royal Northern College of Music with signs reading In Manchester, hundreds gathered outside the Central Library before “Turn off your engines” at passing cars, and “We want the chance forĬhange now” before mounted police moved them away. They blocked the roads outside parliament chanting In London, the protesters held banners and chanted as police and Gathered in London, with 2,000 in Oxford, 1,000 each in Exeter and LeedsĪnd several hundred in Brighton, Bristol, Sheffield and Glasgow.
Organisers also estimated around 3,000 schoolchildren and young people Generation’s inaction on the environmental impact of climate change. Organisers said more than 10,000 young people in at least 60 townsĪnd cities from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall joined the strike,ĭefying threats of detention to voice their frustration at the older to save the planet amid growing anger at theįailure of politicians to tackle the escalating ecological crisis. Thousands of schoolchildren and young people walked out ofĬlasses on Friday, skipping class as part of a global youth action over climate change, co-ordinated by the UK Youth Climate Coalition.
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