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Squares packed with colourful signs, chants and marches by optimistic young people willing to do anything to protect the Earth. It is with these images that we will remember 2019, the year of the global strikes in the name of the climate.

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After months of protests, which began in August 2018 with Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist who gave life to the Friday strikes and the Fridays for Future movement, last year activists decided to join forces and protest simultaneously all over the world, four times in a row, demanding one thing only: real action against the climate crisis.

After the global strikes of 15 March, 24 May, the Climate action week – from 20 to 27 September – and 29 November 2019, Fridays for Future are back on Friday 24 April with a new global strike, this time online.

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The fifth global climate strike on Friday 24 April is online

For weeks now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, generated by the Sars-Cov-2 virus and responsible for the disease Covid-19, many countries have been opting for the forced isolation of their populations, preventing demonstrations and gatherings.

But the Fridays for Future activists have never let themselves be stopped and have moved their weekly strikes online, integrating them with other forms of protest such as tweet storms and online actions. All united under the hashtags #digitalstrike and #ritornoalfuturo.

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BREAKING NEWS:

24 Aprile: lanciamo il Global #digitalstrike !

Da mesi aspettavamo di avere di nuovo l'occasione di scendere nelle piazze, tutti insieme, per chiedere giustizia climatica e azioni immediate contro la crisi climatica.

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A special strike

The fifth strike not only inaugurates the crucial decade for the fight against the climate crisis, but it cannot take place in the streets precisely because of one of the consequences of the very crisis that activists are trying to combat. It is indeed an increasingly widespread view that the erosion of ecosystems and the destruction of natural habitats is one of the causes of the spread of new viruses that are potentially lethal to humans, such as Sars-Cov-2.

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This is one of the reasons that led the Italian Fridays for Future activists to write a letter to the country calling for a sustainable recovery after the end of the pandemic, especially now that Cop26, the United Nations world climate conference, has been postponed.

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This is just how powerful our movement is together! In social distancing we might be alone but together we are powerful and unstoppable! Join the #digitalstrike to keep building this phenomenal movement. #ClimateStrikeOnline #actonscience

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Over to the activists

During the eight weeks leading up to the fifth global climate strike, we had the pleasure of speaking with the Fridays for Future Italia activists, who told us about some of the most important figures relating to the climate crisis. We talked about the 11 trillion dollars that have been divested from the fossil fuel sector to date, the 251 million spent by fossil fuel corporations on lobbying activities within European institutions, the 10 years we have left to change our way of life, and the 200 million people who could be forced to migrate by 2050 due to the climate crisis.

The Friday protests in the name of the climate have been a true revolution — worldwide and linguistic. It remains to be seen what will emerge from the digital strikes.