School Strike for Climate
#notbusinessasusual
On the 21st May the ARD team hit the streets with thousands of school kids in support of the School Strike 4 Climate. While the rest of the world is using the coronavirus economic recovery as an opportunity to build a better future, Australia is doubling down on its business as usual agenda ….committing to spending millions of taxpayer dollars into fossil fuels.
On the 21st of this month we did not do business as usual, we marched from a rally at Town Hall to Prince Alfred Park, joining student strikers taking action to put climate back on the agenda.
School Strike 4 Climate Australia was started in October 2018 by three teenagers from Castlemaine, inspired by Greta Thunberg’s weekly strikes outside Swedish Parliament. Since then, it has grown into one of the biggest movements in Australian history.
Despite the pouring rain in Sydney thousands of strikers chanted for climate justice, condemning the gas, coal and fossil fuel industries and the Morrison government’s recent decision to fund a $600m gas-fired power plant.
pictured: Prominent Sydney activist, Danny Lim.
pictured: Protestors at Town Hall, Sydney CBD.
Not Business As Usual (NBAU) is a group of Australian businesses pledging to support worker participation in the School Strike 4 Climate and was founded by Future Super.
NBAU List of pledged businesses
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