May 5, 2019 – Hvar secondary school took part in the global #FridaysForFuture global climate change protest this week and received support from a young lady in Sweden.
It is less than 9 months since Swedish ninth-grade student, Greta Thunberg, decided to protest global inertia to the threat of climate change by swapping school attendance for protesting outside the Swedish Parliament. What happened next has been quite phenomenal, and the young Swedish student has not only redefined the debate on climate change, but also initiated a global movement by her simple actions and her stark message.
Schoolchildren around the globe have followed Thunberg’s lead, and the FridaysForFuture initiative –
About #FridaysForFuture
#FridaysForFuture is a movement that began in August 2018, after 15 years old Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday 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.
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.
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.
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Schoolchildren from Hvar secondary school took part in the global protest on Friday, a protest organised by school graduate Romano Malecic and supported by local NGO PlatFORma. One can only imagine their excitement and how much they felt encouraged when Greta Thunberg retweeted Malecic’s tweet about the Hvar protest.
This incredible youth grassroots movement is gathering pace, and Hvar is very much a part of it.
You can see more photos of the Hvar protest on Dalmacija Danas.
