Climate protests: New York encourages students to participate

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France Media Agency

The school administration, which operates more than 1,700 public schools under the authority of the Democratic and very anti-Trump mayor Bill de Blasio, announced in a tweet that it would “apologize for the absences of schoolchildren who will participate in the climate strike of September 20 ”.

“We applaud our students when they speak up in a respectful and peaceful manner, on topics that are close to their hearts,” added the administration, indicating that it would encourage discussions at school on climate change and climate change. importance of participating in public debate.

New York’s public schools have some 1.1 million students, from kindergarten to 12th grade.

It is difficult to know how many people will participate in the New York demonstration, one of the many in which young people are called to participate on this day around the world.

It’s “going to be the biggest day of climate action the world has ever seen,” one of the event’s coordinators, American Bill McKibben, said in a press conference call on Friday.

Celebrities and large NGOs with no direct connection to the environmental cause, such as Amnesty International, have also called for participation in the protests.

This day of mobilization aims to push leaders around the world to action, before the UN climate summit on September 23.

In a dated letter posted online by one of the organizers of the New York demonstration, Alexandria Villasenor, the city council of the American economic capital mentioned the figure of 30,000 New York students expected on September 20 around the young muse Greta Thunberg , arrived in New York on August 29 after crossing the Atlantic by sailboat.

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