EVENT INFORMATION

10
January
2019

Youth for Climate holds its first Belgian school strike in Brussels

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📅 10 January 2019 📍 Belgium

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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People in this event

Anuna De Wever

Kyra Gantois

Organizations in this Event

Youth for Climate Belgium

Fridays for Future