thousands of students leave Friday, and their lessons fail to promote climate protection. Today in Berlin.
“We are here, we are loud, because you are stealing our future.” According to you, which draw several thousand students through the Berlin government district. The front way Luisa Neubauer – quasi-German Greta Thunberg. When it comes to the two, then the policy would stop radical climate change.
About 80 young people went on the Bus to Berlin. There, you …
demonstrated … for the protection of the climate, together with Luisa Neubauer.
“Our young people get too little attention”
they have called today and were not alone. Buses students from all over Germany came. Last night, 23 o’clock, a decisive force in Cologne. They have chartered a Bus, at your own cost. 80 young people from all over North Rhine-Westphalia have signed up.
Iven. The 16-year-old student has decided to become politically active, because the air strike is a good opportunity. He drives the whole night through, so he has no Problem: “I take the Bus all the way from Cologne to Berlin, because I believe that our youth gets to little attention, and we can assert ourselves by a school strike.”
He is not alone. Also Yemina sitting in the Bus. She came with three friends. Together, they sit in the back seat. With pillows and Blankets you want to make it through the night, to be able to today, clamoring for the Demo to run. Yeminas Plan of The coal Commission, which meets at the Federal Ministry of economy, show that they are many: “I think it’s important that we show young people our opinion. We must show who we are and that it is not us no matter how our future looks like!”
“Fridays for Future”. The many students mobilized in the whole of Germany.
tails for the climate
That they are skipping the lessons, not taking care of you. Yemina has but also happiness. Her mother, encouraged is sure that her daughter was doing the Right thing, tells the student from Bonn. Meanwhile, the Bus is always full. Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund and Hagen. New strike to rise again and again willing. Finally, the Bus makes its way up to Berlin.
Cold it is there. It has snowed quite a lot. Tired, only a little recovered, the young people. “I’ve slept four hours,” tells the story of Yemina. “But I am determined that today will be a success.” One last commemorative photo with all 80 competitors. Then each one takes his own poster in Hand. Colorful and with clear messages are: “We have only one world, there is no planet B.”
business Minister, Peter Altmaier, mingled with the demonstrating students.
students to speak with the coal Commission
As you arrive after a short time at the Federal Ministry of economy, it is already half past eleven. The place fills up. Several hundred are already there. Many a swear, call again and again: “Hopp, hopp, hopp! Coal mining stop.”
Luisa, the German Greta is already there. At 11:30 p.m. she has a date. You may audition in the case of the coal Commission. Later she told me that she was surprised that there were so many at the Commission. “On the stage, we were able to explain three minutes. We got applause during the in and Out,” she says. Many have said how important your involvement is, that it is going to be a larger movement.
“is It Yes for the higher purpose of”
And that you tails? “It is for the higher purpose.” The German teacher’s Association is divided. On the one hand there is praise for the commitment, on the other hand, criticism of the Lack in the school. “The goal that I support,” says the teacher Association’s Chairman, Hans-Peter Meidinger.” The termination on a Friday morning and the topic of compulsory education and measures is affected, assures the organizers, while there is great media interest, from guides but also from the actual core theme of becoming.” Besides, it is open to secondary theatres of war and to prevent children from participating, if they don’t want to miss your lessons.
Finally, the group pulls up in front of the Federal Chancellery. “If Angela Merkel is listening to us?”, a lot of questions. Luisa is determined to, as she steps on the stage: “Our action is not so effective. You will be heard.” In the next few weeks, you want to be loud, and for your future.
