Fridays for Future: Demos all over the planet
New Zeland opened this Fridays for Future day of action. Followed by many countries around the globe where thousands of young people took to the streets.
In Venice thousands of students left schools to join the demonstration in the city.
Some 475,000 people took part in the first global climate strike in Italy on 15 March and a similar number are expected to join the latest demonstrations in cities including Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Naples, Bologna and Bari.
Earlier this week the education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti, urged schools to consider as “justified” the absence of children taking part in the mobilisation against the climate emergency.
He said on Facebook the climate strike was “essential” for students’ future, which was “threatened by environmental devastation and an unsustainable economic growth model”.
