Aus school students striking & organising to demand real action on the climate crisis 🌏🪧✊🔥⏳🌳
Authorised by Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth, Collingwood.
THOUSANDS of school students walked out of school today across Australia to send a message to the Labor Government: SHIFT THE POWER away from dirty coal and gas companies!! 🌱✊🌏🪧 #ClimateStrike#ShiftThePower
"Symptoms include increased anxiety from the Federal Government's climate policy inaction": @StrikeClimate students take a sick day for a sick planet.
Next weekend Nov 25/26 they'll co-host the #peoplesblockade in Newcastle. Join us to #ShiftThePower ! https://t.co/1ruHnf3urT
Thousands of Australian children are skipping school today to protest against government inaction on climate change as part of School Strike 4 Climate|@StrikeClimate#ShiftThePower#ClimateStrike
Students calling for climate justice on Sydney streets today.
They might have missed a day of school but outside Minister of Environment Tanya Plibersek office they educated her about the impact climate change is having on them, their families and their lands.
Thousands of students across the country have abandoned the classroom, as part of national action on climate change. The coordinated day of protest was aimed at pressuring governments to do more to tackle global warming | @BaumgartelSteph@StrikeClimate#AUSPOL
“Plibersek has got to go”
Fantastic energy at the school climate strike today. Students marching out of school and onto the streets to demand an end to fossil fuels, a just transition for workers and First Nations rights. Currently sitting in outside Tanya Plibersek’s office.
As Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill talks onstage at Premier @RogerCookMLA’s Energy Transition Summit right now, WA school kids are marching the streets of Perth. They’re protesting Woodside’s aggressive gas expansion plans. They’re demanding a safe climate future which means no new gas.
"The day the Australian government stops burning my future is the day I’ll stop protesting." - Western Sydney student Jeremy Phu Howard, who is participating in today's School Strike 4 Climate
@StrikeClimate#SS4C#AusPol
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“fossil fuel representatives ... these aren’t the people who have the best interests of the community or the future of people like me, yet they hold all the power to make the decisions.” Emma Heyink, Margret River and WA School Striker
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“We’re inching towards the point of no return and the government’s watching the Earth dying and still not doing anything,” Min Park, Sydney School Striker https://t.co/LIe16HoKZF
This friday: National climate strike.
@StrikeClimate has organised actions around the country.
'We are STRIKING to demand Albanese and Plibersek #ShiftThePower away from fossil fuels!'
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