From Sydney to Sao Paulo, thousands of students will participate Friday, September 19 in a very symbolic "school strike for climate" which should be one of the most massive calls for action ever organized.
Pacific and Australian schoolchildren kicked off more than 5,000 world events, culminating in a massive demonstration in New York City where 1.1 million students and students are expected to attend. who were allowed for the occasion to dry the courses.
The "Fridays for Future" campaign initiated by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg aims to mobilize children around the world to persuade adults to tackle global warming more seriously. In a video message, the 16-year-old Swede on Thursday called on children to mobilize: "Everything counts, what you count."
Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture pic.twitter.com/5jej011Qtp
Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 16, 2018"It's our future that is at stake"
As the sun rose over the Pacific archipelagos, which was seriously threatened by rising sea levels caused by global warming, students started the day in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati, where children chanted: "We are not sinking. no, we are fighting. "
Tens of thousands of young Australians have started protesting in Sydney, Melbourne and dozens of other cities. Some companies, administrations and schools even encouraged their employees and students to participate in this strike.
"We are here to send a message to the people in power, to show them that we are sensitized and that this issue is important to us," Will Connor, 16, said in Sydney. "It's our future that is at stake."
With AFP