Fridays for Future

Fridays for Future is a youth-led international climate movement that organizes student strikes and campaigns for stronger action against climate change.

Greta Thunberg: Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who began a school strike outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018. Her 2018 strike sparked the protest tactic that gave Fridays for Future its name.
Global Climate Strike: A Global Climate Strike is a coordinated international day of protests demanding climate action. These recurring mobilizations connect local groups under a shared movement identity.
Luisa Neubauer: Luisa Neubauer is a German climate activist and a prominent organizer in Fridays for Future Germany. Her organizing helped establish the movement as a visible force in Germany.
Global Climate Strike of September 2019: The Global Climate Strike of September 2019 was a worldwide protest wave that drew millions of participants. It marked the movement’s largest and most internationally visible mobilization.
Extinction Rebellion: Extinction Rebellion is an environmental movement that uses nonviolent civil disobedience to demand government action on climate and ecological crises. Its disruptive civil disobedience contrasts with Fridays for Future’s school strikes and public demonstrations.
School strike for climate: A school strike for climate is a student protest that skips classes to demand action on climate change. This tactic was the movement’s starting point and remains its signature form of protest.
Climate activism: Climate activism is organized action seeking to address climate change and its effects. Fridays for Future is a youth-led form of this broader political activity.
Vanessa Nakate: Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who founded the Rise Up Movement and advocates for African climate justice. Her activism highlights African youth leadership and representation within international climate campaigning.
Climate justice: Climate justice connects climate change with questions of equity, responsibility, and unequal exposure to harm. Fridays for Future campaigns increasingly foreground unequal climate burdens and responsibility.
Sunrise Movement: The Sunrise Movement is a United States youth movement campaigning for political action on climate change and a Green New Deal. It shares youth-led climate goals but focuses more directly on U.S. electoral politics.

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