Greta Thunberg brushes off interruption at massive Dutch climate march days before election
Greta Thunberg brushes off interruption at massive Dutch climate march days before election
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been briefly interrupted by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital.
a man came onto the stage and told her: “I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view,” before he was ushered off the stage.
This seems like the way it always goes.
Anytime it’s something the person (any person) complaining doesn’t like, it’s exclaimed that it is “politics”, and shouldn’t be said.
One could argue that no one should be talking about climate change because it’s all politics and political, i.e. pertaining to making decisions in large groups, and distribution of resources.
This was probably said because, Greta gave the microphone to someone giving a speech about the Palestina Israeli war. And the were speeches about the Dutch housing crisis and racism, which are ofcourse important topics but not really relevante on the topic of climate change.
We were all ready to discuss the politics of climate and climate justice. A talk about the justice of support for countries in Africa dealing with natural disasters while they are responsible for less than 4% of emissions was very well received. The "politics" was someone asking to free palestine and telling us not to vote for the biggest green social party because they are not doing enough for oppressed people. I think we can rightfully say that was too off-topic for this march.
I was there and the interruption happened only a short while after she said everyone deserves a voice. All the guy did was ask to put the focus back from polarizing views to the main goal of the day, a march for a better and more just climate policy. Let's hope this message comes across with at least 70.000 people marching!
Agreed, I don't say you as a person can't hold multiple views on things, but marches and strikes should have a very well defined focus.
Greta stays winning
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Before Thunberg took the stage, the event was briefly interrupted as a small group of activists at the front of the crowd waved Palestinian flags and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.
The incident came after tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Amsterdam calling for more action to tackle climate change, in a mass protest just 10 days before a national election.
Organizers claimed that 70,000 people took part in the march and called it the biggest climate protest ever in the Netherlands.
Political leaders including former European Union climate chief Frans Timmermans, who now leads a center-left, two-party bloc in the election campaign, later addressed the crowd gathered on a square behind the landmark Rijksmuseum.
Tackling climate change is one of the key policy areas for political parties contesting the Nov. 22 general election.
“It is time for us to protest about government decisions,” said Margje Weijs, a Spanish teacher and youth coach.
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Compare this to what happenned in the UK were they arrested her and charged her with a Public Order Offense for demonstrating.