On Tuesday morning, two students locked themselves at the entrance to Lisbon’s Department of Psychology to keep people out and paralyze activities within the End of the Fossil: Occupy! movement.
The Lisbon Climate Strike said in a statement that the students are “demanding that the University of Lisbon rectorate, like the Secretary General of the United Nations, turn to disruption to stop the destruction, calling on all of its members to blockade the largest terminal. gas imports to Portugal: Port of Sines – May 13 – the most destructive action the country has ever seen.”
“The climate crisis imprisons our future. We don’t have access to food until we have a reason to leave, because in the climate crisis we won’t have a choice of what to eat, and many people today don’t have any more,” Teresa Sintra defends. one of the students present at the entrance to the college.
Jade LeBre, another activist, argues that “an adequate response to normality must be compatible with climate science.”
Since April 26, a group of students has been working at the Department of Psychology for “no fossil fuels by 2030” and for “100% renewable and affordable electricity by 2025”. The goal is for up to 1,500 people to take part in a civil resistance rally at the fossil gas terminal in the port of Sines on 13 May.