#FridaysForFuture

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Description

Intro

#FridaysforFuture is a peoples movement following the call from @GretaThunberg to climate strike. School children are required to attend school. But with the worsening Climate Destruction, this goal of going to school begins to be pointless. Greta requests that people strike in front of their closest town hall, every Friday. With a sign, take a picture and post it with the hashtags #Fridaysforfuture #Climatestrike

Objective of the practice

#FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. She posted what she was doing on Instagram and Twitter and it soon went viral. <br />
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On the 8th of September, Greta decided to continue striking every Friday until the Swedish policies provided a safe pathway well under 2-degree C, i.e. in line with the Paris agreement. <br />
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The hashtags #FridaysForFuture and #Climatestrike spread and many students and adults began to protest outside of their parliaments and local city halls all over the world. This has also inspired the Belgium Thursday school strikes.

Partners

there are FridaysForFuture groups around the world and still new ones every month. see here for details: https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/events/map

Implementation of the Project/Activity

The fascinating thing about #FridaysForFuture is, that it hardly needs any funding. It works through social media and involves ten thousand of students and others supporting them. The idea is easy to copy. Go on strike on Friday in front of your city hall and claim the fulfilment of the Paris Agreement now.

Results/Outputs/Impacts

Since August 2018, when Greta Thunberg started the climate strike in Sweden, more and more kids have joined her on a regular base. Protesting in their home towns urging politicians and economic leaders to fight climate change now to ensure the future to all children. Greta Thunberg spoke at the UN climate conference in Katowice, at the WEF in Davos, at the EU parliament in Bruxelles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5UQc6CD2fI&feature=youtu.be) and only a few days ago in Paris to 1000 pupils on climate strike.
But beyond her own activities, she inspires youngsters around the world to mobilize their generation in Africa, in Asia, in America and in Europe to stand up against climate change.

Enabling factors and constraints

The impact is based on the easiness to organize a movement and make it heard and seen through the means of social media: blogs, Facebook, Whatsup, Twitter and Instagram. All you need is access to the internet and an account. It has an impact because these young people are powerful in their simple message: We want to have a future! We rather skip school fighting the cause: climate change than doing nothing like the grown-ups.

Sustainability and replicability

it is a campaign that is sponsored by the initiative of thousand volunteers dedicating their creativity, their time and hope, risking trouble with parents, teachers and authorities and empowered by the social media networks.

Conclusions

#FridaysForFuture will hopefully result in true climate action because the world population wants it!

Other sources of information

https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/news

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