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Greta Thunberg leads the march on Friday morning in Milan – ANSA
In Milan, the students, the smoke bombs, the music and chants for the climate and the people of Palestine. More than two thousand young people gathered in Largo Cairoli, right in the center, for the climate demonstration organized by Fridays For Future. The van, leading the way for the procession, suddenly stops. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist who founded the young green movement, is camouflaged among the demonstrators wearing a keffiyeh – the traditional headdress of Arab culture – on her shoulders. After a series of interventions from the head of the process, she speaks. He takes the microphone and a silence of anticipation and curiosity descends. The little girl who was lurking outside the Swedish parliament is now a woman and is about to speak: «We live in an era of exploitation, violence and oppression. Genocides, genocides, famines, wars, colonialism, growing inequality and a growing climate crisis: they are all interconnected crises that reinforce each other and bring unimaginable suffering”, attacks the young icon of global activism.
What was in the beginning a simple denial of crimes committed against the environment, with the intensification of wars, now seems to be a political protest against the “imperialism” and “colonization” of the Western world. «Every single day – continues Greta Thunberg -, especially in the last year with what is happening in Palestine, the world has shown its true nature. The Palestinians have been living for many years under the destructive oppression of the apartheid regime and in the last year with the live genocide of Israel the world has once again abandoned Palestine.”
The position of the movement is clear: there is no climate justice without liberating the oppressed. And after an overview of the ongoing wars, the topic is again the climate emergency. Humanity is going beyond the 1.5 degree limit without any real reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.” The doomsday clock continues its fateful turn: there are less than five years left before hour “X”. «The The fight for climate justice – Greta continues – is a fight against the fossil fuel lobby just as it is a fight against the arms industry and the extraction of natural resources of the communities in the most affected areas. the climate justice movement is anti-colonial, anti-genocide, anti-ecide that demands freedom and justice for all and a system that puts people before profits.”
Meanwhile in Rome, the protesters reached the Ministry of Education. After climbing the stairs in the Ministry’s headquarters, they lit smoke bombs and chanted. Behind them, in front of the entrance to the ministry, a cordon of police officers. There was some tension between the autonomous groups and the student organisations, and chants and megaphones were brought out.