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. Organisers framed absence from class as a form of civil disobedience: young people were being asked to study for a future threatened by climate breakdown. The first strike became a weekly mobilisation and quickly expanded beyond Brussels.
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Why did Youth for Climate students strike from school on 10 January 2019?
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Students argued that climate breakdown threatened the future they were studying for.