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Climate strike comes to North Battleford

North Battleford was one of many communities around the world involved in the Global Climate Strike on Friday. In North Battleford Friday, participants gathered around 4:30 p.m. outside North Battleford Library, and marched into the downtown streets.

North Battleford was one of many communities around the world involved in the Global Climate Strike on Friday.

In North Battleford Friday, participants gathered around 4:30 p.m. outside North Battleford Library, and marched into the downtown streets. On the way they carried placards and handed out brochures about the climate crisis.

The protest and march was organized locally by Battlefords Climate Action, a group that just got started in the last few months.

According to Russell Charlton, one of the local organizers of the march, “we feel passionate about this and want to see strong action on climate change because of the seriousness of this issue.”

The North Battleford protest was one of many protests organized around the world, protests that were billed by organizers as a “global call to action on the climate crisis.”

It was expected millions of people around the world would be involved in “strikes” in their communities on Nov. 29. They are part of the #FridaysforFuture movement, described at their website as “a peoples movement following the call from @GretaThunberg to school strike.”

Greta Thunberg is the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist who shot to fame after she skipped class to sit outside the Swedish parliament, in a call for action by legislators on climate change.

Those initial “school strikes” led to students around the world staging their own “strikes” to protest the environmental crisis.

“This was a movement started by students, by youth who are really concerned about their future and how climate change is going to impact them in a big way,” said Charlton.

“We’ve already seeing climate change impact people around the world, but as time goes on it’s going to become more serious unless we take action scientists are telling us we need to take.”