Climate General Strike activists have endorsed new fighting, including a lawsuit against the Portuguese state, new strikes, new occupied schools in and outside of Lisbon, and a protest at a gas terminal in Sines.
“The aim is to say once again that it is not enough to strike by class, although it is important, but it is necessary to mobilize people for more, and with the Global Climate Strike on March 3 we point to the occupations in April,” explained Alice Gato in Luce’s statements on the end of Sunday’s meeting in Coimbra, which endorsed a series of initiatives to raise awareness and mobilize the population.
“Among the demands are the elimination of fossil fuels by 2030 and 100% renewable electricity available to all families by 2025, and we will take the next steps in relation to the professions that we promise to duplicate and decentralize from Lisbon,” said Alice Gato, recalling that in November six schools were occupied and that the target is now of 12, with some of them outside the capital.
“We want to be more destructive,” the activist concluded.
The climate justice movement held this Sunday in Coimbra the 8th National Convention for Climate Justice, approving a new global climate strike on March 3, a demonstration on March 25 against hydraulics in the Tagus River, more classes for End to Fossil from April on May 26, a protest on Sines gas terminal on May 13 and filing a lawsuit against the state “on the grounds of non-compliance with the protection of the Basic Climate Law”.
According to the organization, the meeting in Coimbra brought together more than 300 participants and dozens of organizations.
“Priorities outlined by the Climate Justice Movement for early 2023 include fighting the rising cost of living along with the climate crisis, as well as phasing out fossil fuels and betting on false solutions,” the statement said. promises to “do this by radicalizing and diversifying tactics.”
“The crises we are experiencing cannot be normalized,” said Climáximo’s Carolina Falcato, quoted in the statement, and concluded: “We need to find the courage in fear to fight them, but we can only do this together; all people need to mobilize and participate in actions that create “destruction to stop the destruction” of the climate.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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