"What do Ben and Jerry’s, an 800,000-member South African trade union, countless college professors, a big chunk of Amazon’s Seattle workforce, and more high school students than you can imagine have in common? They’re all joining in a massive climate strike this coming Friday, September 20 — a strike that will likely register as the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history."
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Bill McKibben in Let’s Make Friday the Biggest Day of Climate Action in Global History, , (15 September 2019)
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