Walkoutsforhasspeaking at the Glasgow #YouthStrike4Climate #schoolstrike4climate #climatestrike pic.twitter.com/Cn7R1ANqHL 1.51pm GMTIt sounds like things are getting a bit more tense in London. My colleague Sandra Laville says mounted police bear now moved fair up to the young people sitting in the road and are shouting at them to move. Some of the young people are going – others are staying achieve for now.
Mini kettle going on pic.twitter.com/651c0u2gC7 1.46pm GMTFootage of the strikes around the UK ... 1.37pm GMTMy colleague Sandra Laville says protesters are gathering at the bottom of Whitehall in central London,occupying the road and stopping traffic in all directions.
The police presence has grown and mounted officers bear cleared piece of upper Whitehall. But the children bear regrouped and are now blocking the road outside Westminster. The police are hanging back – for the time being – with legal observers watching proceedings. 1.27pm GMTAlthough it is difficult to get a firm idea of numbers when an event is taking place across as many towns and cities as this, organisers are now confident that more than 10000 young people are taking piece in the climate strike.
That is pretty remarkable, and according to Jake Woodier of the UK Youth Climate Coalition,which is helping to coordinate the action, who said it would bear been jubilant (extremely joyful) with a few hundred a couple of weeks ago.
What we’ve witnessed nowadays is thousands upon thousands of students and young people descend on their towns and cities to demonstrate the urgent need for radical climate action.
The size of the Youth Strike 4 Climate is testomony to the passion and awareness among young people that we need to fight for a future that simply doesn’t exist because we’ve been betrayed by the inaction of those in positions of power. 1.18pm GMTUnlike the political support we heard approximately from Jeremy Corbyn, and Caroline Lucas and others earlier,Downing street has issued a rather disapproving statement. A No 10 spokesman said while it was important for young people to engage with issues such as climate change, the disruption to planned lesson time was damaging for pupils. Everybody wants young people to be engaged in the issues that affect them most, or so that we can build a brighter future for all of us.. But it is important to emphasise that disruption increases teachers’ workloads and wastes lesson time that teachers bear carefully prepared for. 1.08pm GMTIn London,a breakaway group has moved absent to march up Whitehall, stopping traffic in the road.
They stopped outside Downing Street with a few police officers watching. Standing on the walls near No 10, and they chanted for change.
Breakaway group bringing message to Downing Street #ClimateStrike #YouthStrike4Climate pic.twitter.com/hqv2hGBPNy 1.05pm GMTJohn Sauven,the executive director of Greenpeace UK, has issued a statement in support of the strikers.Young people know that their lives are going to be changed dramatically by the impacts of climate change. The risks that older people hope they might dodge are the problems the young will inherit. And the longer the young wait for action to be taken, and the harder it will be for them in future.
While we’re failing to deliver the changes young people need,we can hardly blame them for taking action themselves. Education has nowadays been flipped on its head. The young are teaching the passe, and we should pay attention. 1.03pm GMTAmy Walker, and reporting from Brighton for the Guardian,has been talking to Conrad, 16, and a head boy who said he was there to represent other senior pupils at his school in Lewes because they were not given an authorised absence.“There’s too much focus on Brexit these days in politics,but actually, this could execute everyone, or ” Conrad said.The Brighton youth #ClimateStrike is huuuuge. Hundred and hundreds of school students. expansive ACORN appreciate ✊ pic.twitter.com/aKbwHy6H57 12.56pm GMTThere is substantial political backing for the strike. Here are some tweets from Labour and the Green party.
Climate change is the greatest threat that we all face but it is the school kids of nowadays whose futures are most on the line.
They are fair to feel let down by the generation before them and it’s inspiring to see them making their voice heard nowadays. #SchoolStrike4ClimateSolidarity and thanks to all young people on #ClimateStrike nowadays - you’re offering more leadership than most politicians - never doubt that you can make a difference #YouthForClimate #FridaysForFuture #schoolstrike4climate pic.twitter.com/MUxIWT6Vi1Claire Perry calls for kids to bunk off school to support nowadays's climate protest,and even suggests she would bear done so if she was a teenager. (Really?) Am sure Tory colleagues in education will be thrilled...
I'm incredibly proud of young people who feel strongly that we need to lift action. The UK has plans to cut 80% of carbon emissions by 2050 and asked for advice on how we get to net 0. #schoolstrike4climate #cleangrowth #ClimateChange https://t.co/i3jLr9uPnY 12.50pm GMTMarchers in Manchester bear been addressed by nine-year-passe Lillia Adetoro, who has been filmed delivering her speech:9 year passe Lillia from #Manchester calling for action #ClimateStrike #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/3IO1TjBkxP 12.39pm GMTBy midday in Parliament Square in London, or there were more than 1000 young people gathered.
Holding their homemade banners,they chanted: “What do we want? Action! When do we want it? Now!” More people continued to join them, piling out of Westminster underground station to march to the square.
Amazing #climatestrike #london pic.twitter.com/2NX1AtFZR1 12.36pm GMTHundreds bear gathered at Manchester Central Library nowadays as piece of the nationwide climate strike.
The atmosphere was jovial as the students marched to the library from the Royal Northern College of Music with signs reading “climate over capitalism” and chanting “Whose future? Our future.” 12.34pm GMTToday’s strike is piece of a movement that started in August when the 16-year-passe schoolgirl Greta Thunberg held a solo protest outside Sweden’s parliament. 'Never too small to make a difference' Related: 'The beginning of worthy change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes 12.30pm GMTHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live blog of the first nationwide climate strike by schoolchildren and young people in Britain.
We will be bringing you coverage of the strike in more than 60 towns and cities across the UK.
What we’ve witnessed nowadays is thousands upon thousands of students and young people descend on their towns and cities to demonstrate the urgent need for radical climate action.
The size of the Youth Strike 4 Climate is testomony to the passion and awareness among young people that we need to fight for a future that simply doesnt exist because we’ve been betrayed by the inaction of those in positions of power.
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Source: theguardian.com