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Greta Thunberg and her colleagues at the protest in front of Sweden's parliament
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From Sweden, Greta Thunberg turned Fridays for Future into an international movement.
Now the activist and around 40 fellow campaigners have protested for more climate justice in front of the entrance to the Swedish Parliament.
According to consistent reports, the group blocked several entrance doors.
The aim is to draw attention to urgent social crises and the need for immediate and just change, it said in a statement.
Parliamentary operations were apparently not affected by the action.
Swedish media reported that the politicians used other avenues.
»This action is a resistance to the continuation of this deadly, unjust system.
The richest consume enormous amounts of resources, while large parts of the world's population cannot even meet their basic needs," Thunberg said, according to the statement.
The world is changing rapidly;
It is a democratic duty to actively shape the direction of change.
In addition to Thunberg, a group of scientists from various research areas and dozens of activists took part in the action.
The climate protection movement has been repeating the same message for decades, like a broken record, Thunberg told the Associated Press news agency.
You have the feeling that you are not being heard.
Thunberg began her climate protests in 2018 when she protested weekly in front of the Swedish parliament and demanded greater efforts to protect the climate.
This gave rise to an international movement with Thunberg as a central figure.
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