Swedish teen climate activist takes school strike to gates of United Nations
U.S.
August 30, 2019 / 12:30 PM / Updated 37 minutes ago
Michelle Nichols 3 Min Read
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly campaign for greater action on climate change to the gates of the United Nations on Friday, urging everyone who cares about our future to join her when world leaders gather in New York next month.
Thunberg, 16, started missing school on Fridays a year ago to protest outside the Swedish parliament, sparking a global climate strike movement known as Fridays for Future. She joined 14-year-old New Yorker Alexandria Villasenor on Friday, who began picketing outside the United Nations in New York December.
A couple of hundred of other young protesters supported them with signs that read Help my home is on fire, If you wont act like adults, we will and Science not silence. Their chants included we are unstoppable, a better world is possible and sea levels are rising and so are we.
Wearing t-shirts that read In Greta we trust, New York students Bianca Pilcher, 11, and Lila Sabag, 10, said they had one message for world leaders: act now.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climate-thunberg/swedish-teen-climate-activist-takes-school-strike-to-gates-of-united-nations-idUSKCN1VK22J