On June 19, during a demonstration in the port of the city of Malmoin the south of SwedenThunberg and environmental defenders they blocked the exit of several oil tankers from the pier. The activist must have been forcibly removedafter having refused to leave the place when the Police ordered it, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported and the Europa Press news agency replied.
Thunberg is scheduled to attend the Malmo district court the next 28 of July for one court hearing against him. The offense charged against him may carry a penalty of up to six months in prisonindicated local media.
Thunberg graduated and stopped participating in school strikes for the climate
The Swedish activist concluded last month her secondary studies and he put end their participation in school strikes in which he participated, up to now, every Friday for almost five years and which gave rise to a international youth climate movement.
“Today I graduate from school, which means that I will no longer be able to participate in school climate strikes“, Thunberg had announced in a Twitter thread. Although it was her last school protest, the activist stated that she will continue protesting on Fridays “although technically it’s not a school strike”.
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Thunberg insisted that “This fight has only just begun” and stated that when he began to go on strike, in 2018, “I would not have imagined that it would end in something”, indicated the news agency Europa Press. “After going on strike every day for three weeks, we were a small group of kids. We decided to keep doing this every Friday and we did it. That’s how it was formed Fridays For Future (Fridays for the future). Suddenly it was a global movement that grew every day“, recalled the young woman.
“With the pandemic we had to resort to other ways” and, although since then the protests on Fridays have returned to the streets, Thunberg considered that “There is much to do”. “We’re still going in the wrong directionallowing those in power sacrifice marginalized and affected people, and the planetOn behalf of the greedhe profit and he economic growth“, added in his Twitter thread. And he warned that “we are rapidly approaching possible ecological and climate tipping points that are beyond our control.”
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unknown to all, Greta Thunberg had only 15 years when he first sat down before the swedish parliamenton a Friday in August 2018with a banner that read “School Strike for Climate”. In a few months, youth followed in his footsteps in various parts of the world.
Source: Ambito
