
Rome, 25,000 people take part in the Fridays for Future strike with Greta Thunberg
What Greta Thunberg said and did in Rome, where she participated in Fridays for Future’s strike, encouraging young people to keep fighting for the climate.
Emanuele Rigitano
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I’m a blogger dedicated to cross-media environmental communication and social media. I write about ecology on ecodellaterra.blogspot and politics on Linkiesta, in the Ego Politico blog, and founded the alternative information website Nuova Repubblica. I have worked with the environmental newspapers Terra and Greenreport and in 2011-13 I was part of the web communications team at the Federazione dei Verdi after having obtained a Master’s in Environmental Communications. In my spare time I like to cook, read, take photographs, run and use my bicycle, as well as participate in socio-political community initiatives to make a difference, however small, in my society.
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“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” (George Orwell)
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