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A demonstrator at the "Fridays for Future" protest in Berlin
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For climate activist Greta Thunberg, it is the 135th week since she started a Friday climate strike in front of the parliament in her hometown Stockholm.
Thousands of people around the world now follow her example.
The "Fridays for Future" movement has become a fixture in politics.
Then came the corona pandemic and, for the time being, the end of the mass demonstrations.
Now numerous, predominantly young, demonstrators in different parts of the world have ushered in the first global climate strike day in almost half a year.
The international climate movement "Fridays for Future" and Greta Thunberg herself shared pictures and impressions of protest actions all over the world on Friday early in the morning.
Also from activists from countries that are already feeling the consequences of the climate crisis strongly, for example from Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Philippines or from Kenya in Africa.
In Stockholm, demonstrators put out protest signs in the central Sergels torg square, which read, among other things, “Science not Silence” and “Time is running out”.
Thunberg was also there at one point.
"We strike in shifts to avoid large crowds and to keep our numbers as low as possible," wrote the 18-year-old on Twitter.
According to a tweet from scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, researchers in the Arctic and Antarctic again supported the protests.
Among other things, the crew of the research ship »Polarstern« is there.´
"Fridays for Future" called for the first global climate protest of the year this Friday.
Under the motto #NoMoreEmptyPromises - no more empty promises - the organizers wanted to protest in more than 50 countries against the promotion of fossil fuels and what they saw as a lack of and inadequate climate policy.
In Germany, according to the organizers, presence campaigns have started in more than 210 cities in compliance with corona hygiene rules.
In the super election year 2021, they want to ensure that all parties in Germany anchor climate protection in their programs.
Junction blockades and giant lettering
With art and poster campaigns, bicycle demonstrations and rallies suitable for pandemics, climate protection activists have been trying to attract attention in many places since the early hours of the morning.
The German co-organizer Luisa Neubauer shared pictures and impressions on Twitter that morning.
Participants are invited to upload photos documenting the individual protest to a digital strike card on the organization's website.
The site went online at noon, it said.
Larger actions began in the morning in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne.
In downtown Hamburg, the activists created a sixty-meter-long lettering with the message "We all for 1.5 degrees C".
With this campaign, Fridays for Future appeals to the global community not to let global warming rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In Dresden, the activists say they want to strike at 1000 intersections in the city in the afternoon.
The number of participants for the presence campaigns can only be estimated with difficulty due to the hybrid forms of protest, it said on Friday.
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