Posts Tagged ‘ Fridays for Future ’

Young climate activists ask leaders not to ignore the science: Why we strike again

9 December 2019

Marching in Madrid, COP25, 6 December (Twitter - @Greta Thunberg)

Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Angela Valenzuela Ecojesuit shares this article released before COP25 started in Madrid, Spain and written by three young women climate activists from Sweden, Germany, and Chile who are leading and inspiring student and youth climate strikes in different parts of the world. For more than a year, children and young...
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Fridays for climate in Madrid

31 March 2019

Students in Madrid, Spain joined the global call for school strikes for climate on 15 March. Photo credit: J Tatay

Jaime Tatay Nieto SJ Two weeks ago, a group of graduate students at Universidad Pontificia Comillas approached me and invited me to join the Fridays for Future climate change demonstration, a student-led protest started last August by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager. They knew I was part of a group of teachers trying to...
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Inspired by a young Swedish student’s solo protest on climate inaction, students around the world strike and demand climate action from their governments

19 February 2019

On 10 January, 3,000 young people took to the streets of Brussels, calling for climate action outside the European Parliament. A week later on 17 January, 12,500 came out (part of the crowd shown in this photo).

A protest that started with a 15-year-old Swedish girl who refused to go to school unless politicians start “prioritizing the climate question” has snowballed into a global movement fueled by children who want their adults to take urgent action on the changing climate. Thousands of students in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia have...
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