More than 2,000 protested in the center Athens on Friday 20th of September , when the the Global Week for Future, started . Young people protested to demonstrate for World Climate Change Action Day and the Global Climate Strike.
The young demonstrators, gathered in Syntagma square, right in front of Greece’s Parliament and took a short walk in the historic center of Athens that lasted about an hour. The teenagers were holding homemade signs, and parents were escorting the youngest children chanting “We need systemic change not climate change”. “No one is too small to make a difference” . Later in the day environmental organizations have called for a second demonstration.
Here are some photos from the demonstration :
