Kerry Smith reports that thousands of school students and supporters took to the streets around Australia on May 21 to demand: "Fund our future not gas".
School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C)
Jim McIlroy and Laurie MacSween review a new documentary on Australia's frontline environmental activists.
Zebedee Parkes reports that communities across Australia have turned out in hundreds of locations to demand climate action and oppose the Scott Morrison government's drive for a gas-led economic recovery.
Make Rojava Green Again聽joined the call by Fridays For Future to participate in the Global Climate Strike on September 25, issuing the following statement.
Climate activists Greta Thunberg,聽Luisa Neubauer,聽Anuna de Wever and Ad茅la茂de Charlier聽have initiated an open letter to European Union and global leaders, calling on them to聽deliver on their promises, writes Susan Price.
School Strike 4 Climate has called a national day of action focussed on decarbonising the post-COVID-19 economy. And they聽are asking for support from workers and the community.
Activists expressed solidarity with communities suffering from bushfires and raised money for fire services. One woman spoke about 鈥渁pocalyptic鈥 scenes as her family home was burned down on her 18th birthday. She invited Prime Minister Scott Morrison to her community and tell them that climate change is not causing the fire storms.
School Strike 4 Climate WA challenges Premier Mark McGowan to meet them outside a conference of fossil fuel industry corporations.
With a crowd of 500,000 people, Montreal鈥檚 march for the climate was the largest in the world during the September 20-27 week of climate action. Despite provincial labour laws preventing unions from striking over political issues, 7500 workers formally voted to go on strike for a day, reports Alain Savard.
Across the globe, people are rising.
People's power movements are toppling dictators and forcing governments to resign. These movements are demanding democratic rights and economic justice, opposing corruption, oppression and occupation.
Mass student-led mobilisations for serious action on climate change are shifting domestic and international politics, putting the climate emergency on the agenda like never before.
One of the more atypical protesters at the September 20 Climate Strike was Newcastle coal miner Ian Hodgson. But he exemplifies a large number of workers, including those in the fossil fuel industry, who want real action on the climate emergency, including new secure jobs for those who may lose theirs in any transition.
Capitalism has locked us into a logic that is forcing humanity to participate in its own spectacular self-annihilation, writes Ammar Ali Jan.
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