Youth Worldwide Demand a Bright Future

Global Student Climate Strike -- Photo Review


Parliament Hill in Ottawa

On March 15, an estimated 1.5 million youth, in some 2,200 events in 130 countries worldwide took part in a global Student Strike for Climate. This recent action is the culmination of a movement of youth that began in 2015 under various names -- Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and Youth Strike 4 Climate -- to demand action to put an end to global warming. They are making clear their responsibility to look after the social and natural environment and are demanding that governments today also take up their responsibilities to ensure the well-being of their generation and those yet to come. A global student strike on November 30, 2015, the first day of the COP 21 UN Climate Conference, involved 50,000 people in more than 100 countries.

In Canada, there was participation from coast to coast to coast, with outstanding organization and participation from the Quebec youth in particular. In Quebec alone, 150,000 students took part, with 50,000 students marching through the streets of Montreal. Organizers in Canada are planning another mass action for the fall, to ensure their concerns are on the agenda of the 2019 federal election. Meanwhile, weekly Fridays for Future actions continue around the world.

Gatineau-Ottawa

Quebec

Montreal






Magdalen Islands and Gaspésie

Chicoutimi

Sherbrooke

La Pocatière


Sept-Îles


Baie-Comeau


Quebec City

Canada

St. John's


Fredericton


Halifax


Kingston


Toronto




Hamilton


Kitchener


Winnipeg



Regina



Saskatoon


Edmonton



Calgary


Vancouver



Victoria



Whitehorse


Yellowknife


Inuvik

Asia and Oceania

Tokyo, Japan


Seoul, Korea


Hong Kong, China



Quezon City, Philippines


Bangalore, India


Delhi, India



Melbourne, Australia



Sydney, Australia


Auckland, New Zealand


Nelson, New Zealand


Wellington, New Zealand

Vanuata

Africa

Dakar, Senegal


Capetown, South Africa


Latin America

Mexico City, Mexico


Santiago, Chile

United States

Washington, DC


New York City, New York



Minneapolis-St. Pauls, Minnesota


San Francisco, California

Europe

Reykjavik, Iceland


Helsinki, Finland



Stockholm, Sweden


Berlin, Germany



Dresden, Germany


Zurich, Switzerland


Amsterdam, Netherlands


Brussels, Belguim


Edinburgh, Scotland


London, England


Dublin, Ireland


Paris, France



Lisbon, Portugal


Barcelona, Spain


Milan, Italy


Turin, Italy


Athens, Greece


Prague, Czech Republic



Zagreb, Croatia


Kiev, Ukraine


(Planete Invite Ecole, Student Climate Strike, Peoples Climate Movement, Spectre Media, Le Placoteux, Le Nord Cotier, Le Manic, E. Chouinard, Shev 11, Stephen L., I. Froude, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, G. Fitzgerald, K. Boerder, S. Seck, Kingston Climate Hub, M. Ilnyckyj, N. Voinot, E. Mackey, Dying circles cub, Davoren Lab, M. Oberman, S. Schroeter, L. Shasko, Saskatoon Climate Strike, D. Forbes, M. Kalmanovitch, Climate Justice Edmonton, Calgary Social Change, H.M. Kobluk, youth rising 2030, S. Furstenau, Sierra Club, M. Lien, W. Gagnon, Abedrennan, A. Hofford, A Bhardwaj, Haiyya, School Strike 4 Climate, L. Owen, S. E. Smith, A. Greenberg, N. Arnold, A. Diouf, 350 South Africa, Nuevo Democracia, E. Holthaus, A. Dsabet Brynjars, odeingrid, Petri Pusa, E. Nikunin, Green Rojava, Redfishtream, R. Rohde, France 4 Bernie, M. Molinari, European Greens, March for Science.)

This article was published in

Volume 49 Number 10 - March 23, 2019

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Youth Worldwide Demand a Bright Future: Global Student Climate Strike -- Photo Review


    

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