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September 24, 2021The youth of Fridays for Future are back to demonstrate around the world for the Global Climate Strike under the hashtag #UprootTheSystem, "eradicate the system".
In Italy parades in over 70 squares against climate change made evident by a tropical summer, the sixth hottest since 1800 with a temperature 1.55 degrees higher than the average and almost 1,300 storms, water bombs, trumpets of ' air, hail and lightning storms, up 58% compared to last year and devastating effects on cities and countryside.
Milan, capital of the climate debate
Hundreds of people gathered this morning in Piazza Cairoli in
Milan
in view of the Youth ForClimate and Pre-Cop 26, the two major international events that, for five days, will transform the city into the world capital of the climate debate. To open the procession a large green banner with the words “uproot the system” (let's eradicate the system). “Today is a global strike, all over the world and it is the first demonstration after almost two years of pandemic. It is a very important day. - says one of the organizers -. We are seeing our ecosystem being destroyed, environmental disasters. They are taking away our future and our dignity, but we are back. We want concrete facts and actions. The ecological and environmental crisis cannot be resolved without a radical change ”. The procession after crossing the city will end at the tree library in the Gae Aulenti area.
Greta in Milan on October 1st
The Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani is also in the sights of the environmentalists, guilty of "not including" the movement in the debate on the actions to be taken to fight climate change. "You cannot ignore us, we will make ourselves heard and for better or for worse in the end you will agree with us", is the message addressed by Marta Comparelli, one of the six spokespersons of Fridays for Future Italia to the institutions who announced a great strike with
Greta Thunberg in the square in Milan
. At the pre-Cop26 in Milan - he explains - "we will not go there, none of us will enter. The Fff Italia have been totally ignored by this government; but we will be heard from outside. Our proposals have been around for some time - he concludes - are contained in the document 'Back to the future', a plan to start again "
Parades in Rome, Genoa, Turin, Venice, Bari
To the cry" saving the future is priceless "the students of Fridays for future are parading in the center of
Rome
on the day of the global climate strike.
"The effects of the climate crisis are increasingly devastating, we cannot stand still while our present and future burn!"
the organizers stressed when they launched the initiative.
Hundreds of young people participating in the procession that will parade from Piazza Vittorio through the streets of the center of the capital to Piazza della Repubblica.
Nearly 500 people, mainly young students, also took to the streets in
Genoa
. The Fridays for future Genova banner opened the procession, which started from the gardens in front of the Brignole station. "Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening: climate justice is needed. Laws are needed to defend the future of all - said Francesco Devoti, 18, of the Student Network, in his speech - We, here from the Monumental bridge where we we are stopped and where the partisans are remembered, we say that we are resistance against a collapsing system ". Among the interventions, it was recalled that Banca Etica today chose to close all the branches to be present at the parades throughout Italy. There are many banners present, from the traditional "No planet no pesto" to "You have run out of excuses, we have run out of time". Among the choirs the popular "power to the people cause the people got the power "and the invitation to everyone to take to the streets. The demonstrators also urged the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, and the mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci to join the protest, at cry of "Come down come down come down manifest too".
Parade also in
Turin
.
"We invite citizens to read the programs of the various coalitions - they explain referring to the upcoming administrative elections - The important thing is not the vague promises of intervention, but a list of precise, rapid and punctual measures to be adopted as a time schedule that indicates how much is how long must emissions be abated ".
Among the banners "Our house is on fire", "There is no planet B".
Young
Venetians
respond to the appeal of the global climate strike 'Fridays for future', organized this morning nationwide by student networks. There were about 400 around 9.30 in Piazzale Roma, with signs and banners praising the protection of the environment, but the number of participants has grown steadily with the passing of the minutes. "We have decided to be here, because as we have been saying for a long time we have reached a point of no return and we cannot take it anymore - say the activists -. We are tired of inaction in the face of the climate crisis. We are in Venice, one of the cities that it will be the first to suffer the effects of climate change and we cannot sit idly by ". "The planet can only change with us young people,because those who sit in the offices must understand that the planet is dying and we are the ones who will have the task of changing the world ".
Also in
Bari
Fridays for future students are back in the streets after two years to join the global climate strike. The last march dates back to November 2019, before the pandemic. Some hundreds of Bari scholars are demonstrating, as in other cities in the region and the country, to ask for "climate justice" with banners and megaphones. "It is time for the revolution to begin" is written on some banners. "Let's change the system, not the climate", "You broke our lungs" are just some of the slogans chosen for the sit-in underway in Piazza Libertà, in front of the headquarters of the Bari Prefecture. At the center of the event, not only climate issues, but also "social justice that must go hand in hand with environmental justice", and schools: "after almost two years of distance learning due to the pandemic, we demand a school in the presence "say the boys, complaining that" the real criticality are the means of transport where gatherings are created and for which nothing has been done in all this time "and calling on local institutions.
Greta parades in Berlin 2 days before the vote
Two days before the German elections, the guys from Fridays for future will take to the streets to protest for the climate in several German cities and in
Berlin
, where Greta Thunberg is expected, to increase the pressure on the politicians who will assume responsibility for the post Merkel. Parades are scheduled in Hamburg, Freiburg and Cologne, but the movement that is now mobilizing at an international level has promoted as many as 450 initiatives in the federal territory. That the presence of the Swedish activist can help Annalena Baerbock in the final phase of the electoral campaign is to be seen: currently the green candidate is third in the polls and has no chance of becoming chancellor. Today he will surprise the parade in Cologne with the Fridays for future, before closing his electoral campaign with a rally in Duessledorf.
"Germany is one of the countries that cause the most emissions in the world. Historically, we are in fourth place as the cause of the climate crisis. The foundations for real change will be laid in the coming years. This is why we are now talking about the election of the century".
Speaking is Luisa Neubauer, the German leader of the "Fridays ForFuture" movement.
According to Neubauer, the next legislature is crucial from the point of view of the fight against the climate: "The decisions that will be taken in these four years will influence the next decades".