The school strike for climate (Swedish: Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike, or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Fridays classes to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to take action to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy.
Publicity and widespread organizing began after Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside the Swedish Riksdag (parliament), holding a sign that read "Skolstrejk för klimatet" ("School strike for climate").
A global strike on 15 March 2019 gathered more than one million strikers in 2,200 strikes organized in 125 countries. On 24 May 2019, the second global strike took place, in which 1,600 events across 150 countries drew hundreds of thousands of protesters. The events were timed to coincide with the 2019 European Parliament election.
The 2019 Global Week for Future was a series of 4,500 strikes across over 150 countries, focused around Friday 20 September and Friday 27 September.
THE NEW YORK TIMES & BBC NEWS
From Sydney to Seoul, Cape Town to New York, children skipped school en masse Friday to demand action on climate change.
It was a stark display of the alarm of a generation. It was also a glimpse of the anger directed at older people who have not, in the protesters’ view, taken global warming seriously enough.
Further Links
NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/climate/climate-school-strikes.html?fbclid=IwAR1jPZJDCjbfjZwOeJhJ1465BHFcYlfhBvGf5pobaiLluklL-5etpfKm7Vo
BBC News:
https://www.bbc.com/korean/news-48375861?ocid=socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwAR0F81z2xB2C9aRQoz6xewXUeJuVd0S-RpmW2SKTU_xsO5X6dhl0zj6X1as