ROME - The student procession started from Sapienza. "End Fossil End War. Free Palestine" on the banner
With the cry of "Free Free Palestine" and the lighting of a red smoke bomb, the procession of collectives - high school and university students - and student organizations set off from Piazzale Aldo Moro, in front of the entrance to Sapienza, and will arrive in Piazza della Repubblica. to join the Fridays for Future demonstration. "End Fossil End war.
Free Palestine", is written on the banner overhead. The boys, around 300, wave the flags of Palestine and the collectives.
The students decided to start from the entrance to the university city "after the events of recent days and to show the unity and convergence of student and citizen struggles for Palestine, social and climate justice", underlines Gaia.
Meanwhile, in front of the university rector's office, Francesca and Leonardo from Cambiare Rotta are still chained and on hunger strike.
"Today as young people and students - explains Tess Kucich, coordinator of the Knowledge Network - we took to the streets throughout Italy on the occasion of the global climate strike launched by Fridays For Future.
We have been mobilizing for years alongside the Fff movement to reclaim the right to the future and we think it is essential to continue to do so, given the manifestations of the climate crisis that continue to affect us." "We are here to reiterate the fundamental value of knowledge and culture in the fight against climate change - continues Virginia Mancarella, coordinator of Link-University Coordination - because it is schools and universities that can provide the tools for a society capable of protecting the own ecosystem" "We demand - concludes Bianca Chiesa, coordinator of the Students' Union - the systemic introduction of environmental education, investments in buildings for energy efficiency, the construction of energy communities and the elimination of all agreements with polluting and war companies by schools and universities.
We want to see our future guaranteed and not sold to the logic of profit! We will continue to make ourselves heard in the coming months until governments implement policies truly capable of combating climate change".
MILAN - 200 students marching for Fridays for Future
The student march organized by Fridays for Future "for climate justice" started from Largo Cairoli in Milan. On the day of the global climate strike, around 200 Milanese young people took to the streets heading towards Piazza XXIV Maggio. At the beginning of the procession, a banner reading "Free Palestine = climate justice".
Arriving in front of the Enel headquarters in via Carducci, the activists staged a flash mob, lighting some smoke bombs and displaying another banner reading "Boycott Enel = climate justice".
GENOA - An 88-year-old grandmother with her granddaughter was also in the square
Relay between generations in the square of Genoa for the event promoted by Friday for Future. In fact, grandmother Franca, 88 years old, and her granddaughter Maya, who is 22 years old, met in Piazza De Ferrari. Together they set out in procession.
"It's a battle that unites us all - says grandmother Franca -: we are in the streets for the climate, for the land, for the seas and for the animals. Defending these things should be everyone's priority duty and right. Let's also think to the pollution of mass tourism that we are seeing in the last period, to the pollution of the port. These are battles that have no age".
"The idea of the city we want is that of a city that is sustainable from an environmental and human point of view, has respect for people, for their physical and mental health, and this cannot be separated from the protection of our planet - he says - There are no green spaces and public money is spent on works that will not bring any benefit to the population either economically or in terms of daily well-being. We ask that projects such as the Skymetro, which puts an aquifer at risk, or the regasification plant, be stopped. of Vado, and instead invest in the ecological transition. We must invest in the well-being of citizens and not in cosmetic projects to be seen by tourists such as the Lagaccio cable car which does not bring public transport benefits to the population but only to cruise passengers who can arrive. in Forte Begato without passing through the suburbs. Ours is a generation that sees one in 5 children suffering from anxiety attacks and one in four from depression, and it is problematic for our mental health to have to interface every day with older people who have decided to sacrifice our future for profit."