I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she marched in New York: 鈥淚 would never have predicted this.鈥
It was just over a year ago that Thunberg, now 16 years old, began skipping school every Friday to protest in front of the Swedish parliament, demanding action to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Timor-Leste joined the global climate strike for the first time, on September 24.
More than 400 people took part in the climate strike in the capital, Dili. The protest stared from the Palacio Governo, marching to Bidau for speeches and a concert.
More than 300,000 people across Australia walked out of school and work for the September 20
Footage from the September 20, 2019 Sydney Climate Strike march as it gathered in the Domain and, later on, as the crowd marched past NSW Parliament House.
Thousands left the Domain via Art Gallery Rd, and at least some of those were prevented from joining the main march by police.
The main march took about 40 minutes to go past. This is just some of the footage of the march.
While estimates of the size of the Climate Strike in Australia vary, one thing is certain: many generations want real action to deal with climate change 鈥 and they want it now.
Greta Thunberg delivers her thoughts on next steps for the School Strike 4 Climate movement with precise accuracy. Her call for a "concrete plan鈥 and 鈥渘ot just nice words鈥 reveals how all climate activism should be rooted in mass action, rather than rhetoric.
Support for the September 20 student-led global Climate Strike is growing in Australia as the big day nears. Councils, unions and churches are declaring their support and more strikes are being organised every day in what is building up to be the biggest day of protest since the 2003 anti-Iraq war mobilisations.
Young people around the world are taking seriously the warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that genuine action is urgently needed if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change.
That is why they have initiated a global Climate Strike on September 20, just days out from an emergency United Nations climate summit, to pressure governments into action.
The world recently commemorated the anniversaries of the dropping of nuclear weapons on the people of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) in 1945. But it hasn't been a good few weeks for world peace.
The Australian Education Union鈥檚 (AEU) Victorian branch voted to support a student-initiated call for a Climate Strike on September 20. The internationally coordinated strike, which will be held just days out from a United Nations Emergency Climate Summit, is seeking to pressure governments to take serious action to address the聽climate crisis.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
School Strike 4 Climate outline just 10 of many reasons why you should join students when they go on strike to save the climate on September 20.
School Strike 4 Climate is encouraging unionists to move the following motion at meetings of their trade unions.