Critics have accused the young climate activists of being divisive and unrepresentative; they say this simply isn’t true.
. Instead, she protested for climate action outside her country’s parliament. Her activism sparked a global movement, Fridays for Future, when young people around the world protested against energy driven by fossil fuels and demanded action on the climate crisis.
Witnesses said an ANC official accepted the memorandum before allegedly accusing the protesters of “sowing divisions” in the country. “One would expect officials … to mention their commitment to securing our future and delivering the demands to the correct persons — even if it were a lie. But to be told that we, an intergenerational and cross-cutting mobilisation of civil society — including workers, communities and youth — are the problem because of ‘division’ was extremely upsetting,” Klaasen said.
“I, personally, felt that the lashing out could’ve been for two reasons: to plant seeds of doubt about [our] work … or it was a targeted response in what I can only think of as panic. Here you have adults being called on account by youth and we’re saying we won’t stand for it,” they said. “On the sidelines, I asked why they didn’t invite the ANC as an organisation, if they invited the DA … We are treated like we are representing parliament — so we were treated unfairly. He said that he told the marchers to avoid politicising the issue and encouraged them to invite workers and the labour movement.
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