School climate strikers join Valentine's Day protests across world
Striking students have
joined Valentine’s Day rallies across the world as the protest movement
attempts to ratchet up pressure on governments and companies before crunch UN
climate talks in Glasgow later this year. In London, the young
demonstrators held banners proclaiming “Roses are red, violets are blue, our
Earth is burning and soon we will too” and “Climate change is worse than
homework” as they marched through Parliament Square on Friday to mark the first
anniversary of nationwide climate strikes in the UK.
Students in
Durham, Glasgow, Brighton and dozens of other cities also braved often wet and
cold condition to march through the streets chanting, “What do we want? Climate
justice. When do we want it? Now.” Greta Thunberg, who
initiated the movement as a solitary striker in Stockholm in August
2018, said climate strikes were planned in 2,000 cities across the world on
Friday, and that bigger actions were planned for the coming months....
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