📅 10 January 2019
About 3,000 pupils left school to demand stronger climate policy, answering a call by Antwerp students Anuna De Wever and Kyra Gantois and joining a growing international school-strike movement....
📅 24 January 2019
The weekly school strike grew from roughly 3,000 participants on 10 January and 12,500 a week later to around 35,000 on 24 January. Students used recurring weekday action to turn climate urgency...
📅 27 January 2019
Three days after the school strike, a broad intergenerational march in Brussels drew about 70,000 participants, then a record for climate mobilisation in Belgium. Youth-led organising and the...
📅 24 May 2019
Around 7,000 people joined the 21st and final scheduled Youth for Climate march before Belgium’s federal, regional and European elections. After weeks of Thursday strikes, the organisers used the...
