Kids striking against climate change: 'We're fighting for our lives'
Published 17 Mar 2019, 08:59 GMT
Young demonstrators join a #FridaysForFuture #YouthStrike4Climate event outside the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Hundreds of young people in the city walked out of school and took to the streets as part of a global youth-led day of action bringing attention to climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist who started skipping school on Fridays in August, 2018 to protest outside Sweden's parliament, school and university students worldwide who share her alarm and anger have joined her movement.
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Strike participants gather in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Young strikers brought signs and drew on brightly-painted parachutes on the lawn in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
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Other students in London gathered outside Buckingham Palace, demanding that elected officials take action on climate change.
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Students shout slogans during a climate strike in New Delhi.
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Portuguese students chant and hoist placards in front of the Portuguese Parliament building. Cities around the world were the scene of unprecedented climate change activism during 2019.
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Protesters bounced an inflatable planet earth is bounced around the crowd during a Climate Change Awareness rally outside the Sydney Town Hall in Australia.
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Students lined up with signs and chants at a protest in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Students from the Braeburn Garden Estate School chant during a march in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Yang Tzy-Ching, 12, joined a protest outside the Presidential Palace in Taipei, Taiwan.
Thousands of students marched across the streets of London during the March 15, 2019 climate strikes.
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Participants in a #FridaysForFuture event in Tokyo, Japan gathered before they started their climate strike.
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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who kicked off a global movement of young people striking to bring attention to climate change, can be seen on an iPhone screen as she participates in a strike outside the Riksdagen, the Swedish parliament house she has protested outside of most Fridays since August, 2018.
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In Nantes, France, some demonstrators painted an Earth motif on their faces during the climate strike.
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