THE YOUTH SPEAKS UP: Here’s what happened at Geelong City Hall

On their way to City Hall, the climate strikers passed the office of Richard Marles, Labor member of Parliament for Corio, whose speech is included in this video. Independent candidate in the federal election for Corangamite, Damien Cole, spoke at the city hall, where the microphone was open for anyone who wanted to say a few words. Heidi Fog spoke on behalf of the Victorian ResourceSmartSchool program. She can be contacted via www.heidifog.com.au

Two students from Kardinia International College organised this school strike for climate action in Geelong – a town of 230,000 residents, located 75 kilometres from Melbourne in Australia.

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The Guardian: It’s our time to rise up’: youth climate strikes held in 100 countries Think we should be at school? Today’s climate strike is the biggest lesson of all

Biggest climate action event ever

What started with one single student’s display of determination to make difference and call on the politicians’ inaction on climate change, has grown into a global youth movement. The co-ordinated global school strike on 15 March turned out historically as the biggest climate action event ever, with strikes taking place in around 2,000 cities in more than 100 countries.

BREAKING: 150,000 young Australians take to the streets in over 60 places across the country for #SchoolsStrike4Climate demanding our “leaders” take #ClimateActionNow 1) #StopAdani 2) No new/upgrades of coal or gas!3) 100% renewables by 2030 We are the generation of NOW! pic.twitter.com/et9u74x41h— Nicholas Fitzpatrick (@NickClimate) March 15, 2019

Sydney saw a massive participation of more than 30,000 students and parents. Across Australia organisers counted 150,000 people taking part in 55 strikes around the country.

 4 October 2018: Greta Thunberg in front of the coal power plant Moorburg in Hamburg, which is owned by the Swedish state-owned Vattenfall. On their website they call it “environmentally friendly”.

Greta’s amazing journey

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