“We are in a climate emergency.” A climate strike took place in Prague
photo: Vít Hassan for PrahaIN.cz (as well as others)/Climate strike Friday for the future October 21
A climate strike was called at noon on Friday, October 21. High school students from the international Fridays for Future movement gathered in the Old Town Square and marched in a parade across Národní tříd to Kampu. According to our reporter who was on the spot, roughly two hundred people took part in the strike.
“We are facing a harsh winter, many people are in energy poverty and we must not leave it to chance. We have to start fighting the common vintner, and that is fossil fuels. We must act now. Instead of helping those suffering from the energy and climate crisis, we have empty talk full of promises,” the strikers wrote on Facebook.
Egyptian activist Kareem Taha, Nox from the Ukrainian FFF, Eliška Koldová from SdruŽen and LGBTQIA+ education specialist Agáta Hrdličková spoke on Old Town Square. Hosted by Ella Dolinský and Lukáš Niedemayer.
Photo: Climate strike Friday for the future, October 21
The strikers had a transparent slogan: “We are in a climate emergency”, “There is no planet B”, “Your empty lies will not save lives” or “Stop the stench from Počerad”.
The whole event was attended by fewer people than previous events of the Fridays for future movement.
“We want no fossil fuels, we want insulated buildings, renewable resources and help for those who need it, because empty promises will not save people who are freezing,” the protesters demanded.
The participants, who were heading from the Old Town Square to Kampu, chanted the slogans all the time and repeated them after those who had a megaphone. At one point, the well-known photographer Petr Vrabec was also in the lead, chanting with the procession: “A, anti, anti-capitalist”.