For five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class. Read more at straitstimes.com.
STOCKHOLM – For five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class; after 251 weeks, she is hanging up her cardboard protest sign – as a student.
“When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything,” she wrote on Twitter. “We’re still here, and we aren’t planning on going anywhere.” Thunberg began striking in 2018, when she demonstrated every day for three weeks with a small group of students outside of the Swedish Parliament. They decided to continue holding protests every Friday, eventually creating the group Fridays For Future.
In February, Thunberg told The New York Times that “the world is getting more and more grim every day.” On the flip side, she said, “we have more people now who are mobilized and who are in the climate movement, in the fight for the climate and social justice.”
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