Fridays for Future

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Fridays for Future
Part of the climate movement
Maximum number of school strikers per country:
  1000 
  1000+ 
  10000+ 
  100000+ 
  1000000+
DateSince 20 August 2018, mostly on Fridays, sometimes on Thursdays, Saturdays or Sundays
Location
International
Caused byPolitical inaction against global warming
GoalsClimate justice
MethodsStudent strike
StatusActive
Parties
Youth
Lead figures
Greta Thunberg
Number
1.4 million (for 15 March 2019)[1]
4 million (for 20 September 2019)[2]
2 million (for 27 September 2019)[3]
Website

Fridays for Future (FFF), also known as the School strike for climate (Swedish: Skolstrejk för klimatet), is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy.

Publicity and widespread organising began after Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside of the Swedish Riksdag (parliament), holding a sign that read "Skolstrejk för klimatet" ("School strike for climate").[4][5]

A global strike on 15 March 2019 gathered more than one million strikers in 2,200 strikes organised in 125 countries.[1][6][7][8] On 24 May 2019, in the second global strike, 1,600 protests across 150 countries drew hundreds of thousands of strikers. The May protests were timed to coincide with the 2019 European Parliament election.[7][9][10][11]

The 2019 Global Week for Future was a series of 4,500 strikes across over 150 countries, focused around Friday 20 September and Friday 27 September. Likely the largest climate strikes in world history, the 20 September strikes gathered roughly 4 million protesters, many of them schoolchildren, including 1.4 million in Germany.[12] On 27 September, an estimated two million people participated in demonstrations worldwide, including over one million protesters in Italy and several hundred thousand protesters in Canada.[3][13][14]

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  9. ^ "'We're one, we're back': Pupils renew world climate action strike". Al Jazeera. 2019-05-24. Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  10. ^ Gerretsen, Isabelle (2019-05-24). "Global Climate Strike: Record number of students walk out". CNN. Archived from the original on 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  11. ^ Haynes, Suyin (2019-05-24). "Students From 1,600 Cities Just Walked Out of School to Protest Climate Change. It Could Be Greta Thunberg's Biggest Strike Yet". Time. Archived from the original on 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  12. ^ Largest climate strike: 4 million protesters overall: 1.4 million protesters in Germany:
  13. ^ "Fridays for future, al via i cortei in 180 città italiane: 'Siamo più di un milione'" [Fridays for future, kids in the streets in 180 Italian cities: 'We're more than a million']. la Repubblica. 2019-09-27. Archived from the original on 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
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