{"id":3751,"date":"2019-09-23T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2019\/09\/23\/manchester-school-children-demand-climate-change-action\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T10:54:49","slug":"manchester-school-children-demand-climate-change-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/manchester-school-children-demand-climate-change-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester school children demand climate change action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Manchester were brought to a standstill on Friday as hundreds of protesters took part&nbsp;in the global youth strike for climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters included school children from across Greater Manchester calling for more to be done to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"4943\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"433\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2019\/09\/school-scaled.jpg\" title=\"School Protesters\" width=\"600\"><figcaption>School children in the protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event held at St Peter&#8217;s Square included speeches from activists as well as Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>He was challenged on stage by two young speakers including 10-year-old Lillias and 19-year-old Fabiha Chowdhury who felt not enough is being done to tackle the climate emergency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Fabiha Chowdhury challenging <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndyBurnhamGM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AndyBurnhamGM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/schoolstrike4climate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#schoolstrike4climate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/youthstrikemcr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#youthstrikemcr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/manchester?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#manchester<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OkvahC1mJl\">pic.twitter.com\/OkvahC1mJl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 The Northern Quota (@northernquota) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/northernquota\/status\/1175018461732462592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As evidence that politicians are&nbsp;taking climate change seriously, the mayor set out his recent introduction of free bus travel for 16-18 year olds encouraging young people to use public transport.<\/p>\n<p>However, this did not appear to win over the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Fabiha said afterwards: &#8220;I don\u2019t want a false statement that you are going to do this or that, I want the&nbsp;actual truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andy Burnham Speech\" data-delta=\"3\" data-fid=\"4945\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2019\/09\/img_4489-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Andy Burnham Speech\" width=\"600\"><figcaption>Andy Burnham speaking to protestors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mayor went on to admit that he had &#8220;not done enough&#8221; but stressed that under his leadership Greater Manchester had taken positive steps.<\/p>\n<p>He said real change lay&nbsp;with the government and urged protestors to keep up their actions and continue to raise awareness of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors later set out on a march across the city centre bringing traffic to a standstill. Organisers were handing out leaflets to those held up and apologising as the protest went along.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youth Strike Protest\" data-delta=\"4\" data-fid=\"4946\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2019\/09\/img_4618-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Youth Strike Protest\" width=\"600\"><figcaption>Protestors marching through the city centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The march came to an end at a former industrial estate in Ancoats where a mass &#8216;die-in&#8217;&nbsp;occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City Council currently has plans&nbsp;to develop the site but protesters have called for it to be turned into green space which they say the city is lacking.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youth Strike Protest\" data-delta=\"5\" data-fid=\"4947\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2019\/09\/img_4609-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Youth Strike Protest\" width=\"600\"><figcaption>Greater Manchester Police on scene at the protest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year the council<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.manchester.gov.uk\/news\/article\/8194\/manchester_city_council_debate_climate_emergency_motion\"> declared a Climate Emergency<\/a> within the city and set out the&nbsp;city\u2019s target of becoming zero-carbon by 2038.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, protests occurred in nearly 3,000 cities around the world all inspired by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/albumizr.com\/a\/fIUz\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Manchester were brought to a standstill on Friday as hundreds of protesters took part&nbsp;in the global youth strike for climate change. 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