Global climate strike. The historic 24 May of Fridays for Future
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The second global climate strike, organised on 24 May by the Fridays for Future movement, brought colour to cities around the world.
Global climate strike. The historic 24 May of Fridays for Future
The second global climate strike, organised on 24 May by the Fridays for Future movement, brought colour to cities around the world.
The Fridays for Future movement has passed its final exam. Young people from around the world took part today, Friday 24 May, in the second global climate strike. According to the organisers, at least 1.4 million people participated in the event, across 1,664 cities in 125 countries.
Following the one on 15 March, which had already involved more than 2,000 cities in over 120 countries, on every continent.
Tomorrow we schoolstrike for the right to a future. In 1623 places in 119 countries around the world.
And counting!
Join us!
Everyone is needed. Find or register your closest strike at fridaysforfuture.org/events/map
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And counting!
Join us!
Everyone is needed. Find or register your closest strike at fridaysforfuture.org/events/map
#fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate
"Mobilisation on the rise, particularly in Italy and Germany"
The YouthForClimate network, which had been gathering support for months, spoke of "mobilisation on the rise, particularly in Italy and Germany", but also "in Africa and Asia, continents that had not been very engaged until now". The collective was born from the strike call launched last August by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.
According to the international environmental organisation 350.org, in March more than one and a half million students took to the streets, giving rise to the largest global climate action in history.
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Rome – where the Scandinavian activist herself spoke, in Piazza del Popolo, last 19 April, before meeting numerous authorities including Pope Francis – also hosted a march.
In the same way, another 126 Italian cities turned green. The LifeGate editorial team covered the strike live: from the capital, from Milan, Bologna and Bergamo. In the latter case, in particular, representatives of indigenous peoples who are in Chiuduno, in the province of Bergamo, these days to attend the Festival dello Spirito del Pianeta also took part in the Global Strike for Climate. Three important testimonies — the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, the Aztecs of Mexico and the Cree of Canada — joining the young people fighting for our planet.
It was the Cree who recalled that in 2018 Canada recorded a record number of wildfires caused by climate change, and that a similar phenomenon is expected in 2019. The Aztecs are also joining the fight because their lands are threatened by the rampant deforestation perpetrated by human beings. "We must change our perspective," said the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, because "the Earth is not ours — rather, we are part of the Earth; our planet will continue to live, but it is we who will become extinct if we do not act immediately." In the morning, the first to begin the marches were students from nations such as Japan, New Z