[Southern California Permaculture] Fwd: Europe Climate Change Protests: Teenage Girls Organize Mass School Walkouts And Protests

[John Calvert]

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*Europe Climate Change Protests: Teenage Girls Organize Mass School Walkouts And Protests

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"...So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. The loose movement’s inspiration, a 16-year-old girl who began a solitary picket last year outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm...

In the latest mass climate strikes, large crowds took to the streets in The Hague on Thursday, in the largest such protest in the Netherlands so far. The teens leading the climate strike across the border in Belgium were in Leuven, the country’s eighth-largest city, where they told BuzzFeed News they had 12,000 people on the streets in one of many actions across the country..."


“This system is just wrong,... It discriminates against people.  We’re not taking care of this planet.” – */Anuna De Wever/*


https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/europe-climate-change-protests-teens


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