Dutch pro-climate students’ strikes, tomorrow and 14 March

Translated from Dutch NOS TV today:

Climate truants will return to the Malieveld on 14 March

On the 14th of March, high school pupils will march on the streets during school hours to demand further-reaching climate measures. That was announced by the Youth for Climate NL action group via Twitter. The event will be held again at the Malieveld in The Hague.

https://twitter.com/Youth4ClimateNL/status/1095750873299542016

Youth for Climate in the Netherlands says that in the weeks before 14 March, there are school holidays, so striking will not be possible.

Last Thursday, more than 10,000

more than 30,000 according to other estimates

students left school to take action in The Hague for the climate.

Yesterday, a delegation of the activists talked to Prime Minister Rutte and Minister Wiebes about their climate demands. …

After the conversation, the young people said they were not yet satisfied with the political reaction to their protest. They had already announced a new climate march, and tonight it became clear that it will take place in [14] March.

At the end of March, Rutte, Wiebes and Youth for Climate will talk to each other again.

Donderdag 14 februari: Scholieren en studenten staking voor t klimaat om 12:00 uur op de Dam in Amsterdam! #klimaatstaking #klimaatspijbelaars #youthforclimate

— Students for Climate NL (@Stu4ClimateNL) February 10, 2019

De #climatestrike route door Amsterdam van morgen. Verzamelen op de Dam (met speeches) en dan lopen we door Rokin – Spui – langs @UvA_Amsterdam – Singel – Vijzelgracht – Weteringsschans – langs Barlaeus – Leidseplein
Zie je daar! #klimaatstaking #klimaatspijbelaars pic.twitter.com/dBgimBdo4y

— Students for Climate NL (@Stu4ClimateNL) February 13, 2019

These two tweets are about a pro-climate striking students’ (both university and high school) march in Amsterdam, starting at the Dam square. The lower tweet is about where the march goes.

Vox, magazine of Nijmegen university, 12 February 2019, reports that tomorrow there will be a pro-climate demonstration by striking university and high school students in Nijmegen as well.

[An organiser] hopes that more and more people will join. “People have to get used to it. In Belgium it also started small and by now a minister has resigned.’

Continue to demonstrate

That is also what [organisers] Van Uffelen and Kemerink hope for: that the protests will grow into something that all kinds of groups in society will continue to strive for, also with their own initiatives. ‘In any case, the government is not going to save the climate, they are not very ambitious,’ says Van Uffelen. “It all should go a little faster. We support the talks that Rutte has with the high school students, but that is not the key. We must continue to put pressure. We do that by continuing to demonstrate.’…

“First let them become vegan and take shorter showers”, they [media critics of the striking students] say. While the problem is mainly the big corporations that continue to pollute and are not tackled by the national government and local governments.’

Nijmegen rally: Stationsplein, 10.30-12. 14 February 2019.

The #schoolstrike kids are going to save the world if the rest of us can back them. They have changed the conversation.

With strikers in Africa and South America this is truly global.

Lilly is one of the young leaders. #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateEmergency

— Dr Heidi Edmonds (@heidi_k_edmonds) February 13, 2019