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This Friday, September 24th, another Global Climate Strike will take place. Organized youth groups and socio-environmental movements are taking to the streets again to demand concrete and decisive action against climate change. In Argentina, there will be meeting points in provinces and towns throughout the country. In Buenos Aires, the gathering will be in Plaza de Mayo at 5:00 PM, from where participants will march to the National Congress.

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report was released, stating that human actions are the primary cause of a socio-climatic and ecological crisis. According to the report, the rise in average global temperature is bringing us closer to dangerous tipping points in the disruption of the planet's biosphere processes.

According to the scientific community, this is the last window of opportunity we have to act and avoid the worst consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Younger generations are calling for this global popular mobilization, demanding an urgent response from states and transnational corporations.  

Fridays for Future

From “ For Future”, a movement started by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and replicated massively globally, they state that the climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum, but rather is combined, amplified and reinforced by other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and class inequality.

These are different struggles that are interconnected, though each has its own profound particularities. The movement holds the elite of the Global North responsible for the systematic destruction of lands and communities through colonial plunder, imperialism, and greed, ultimately jeopardizing life on the entire planet as we know it.

Countries in the Global South and marginalized sectors of society bear the brunt of a profoundly unjust historical legacy of overexploitation. That is why Fridays for Future demands historical reparations from the economic elite, debt cancellation, financing for the climate transition, and a drastic reduction in emissions in the Global North.

Ambitious, short-term actions are demanded because there is no more time or place for empty promises.

The 1% responsible for twice the pollution

These statements are reinforced by data from the Oxfam NGO , which states that “the richest 1% of the world’s population has been responsible for more than twice the carbon pollution of the poorest half of humanity, comprising 3.1 billion people, during the quarter-century in which emissions have reached

The two groups most affected by this injustice are the least responsible for the climate crisis: on the one hand, those living in the greatest poverty and exclusion, who already struggle to cope with the effects of climate change, and on the other hand, future generations who will inherit a depleted carbon budget and a world hurtling toward climate collapse.

Activist movements and organized youth groups today are proving to be far from superficial or "Palermo-esque" movements, as some media outlets and hegemonic communication figures attempt to delegitimize them.

The focus of this massive global mobilization is to combat systemic inequalities by addressing their diverse and unique characteristics as a central part of the fight against climate change. Our representatives are urged to take concrete and decisive action, commensurate with the circumstances, and to fully embrace this emergency.

Meeting points in provinces and towns of Argentina

>Buenos Aires: Plaza de Mayo at 5 PM to march towards the National Congress. >Rosario: Plaza San Martín at 5 PM
>Tucumán: Festival at the Avellaneda Park pool starting at 5:30 PM
>Mar del Plata: Hipólito Yrigoyen 1627 (in front of City Hall) at 4 PM
>Bahía Blanca: City Hall at 5 PM

>Paraná, Plaza Mansilla, at 5:00 PM
>Santa Rosa, La Pampa, in Plaza San Martin, at 6:00 PM

*It is important to remember to wear face masks, have water to stay hydrated, and take care of your personal belongings by carrying them in backpacks, pockets, or fanny packs with zippers to avoid theft, which is unfortunately common in these types of mass demonstrations.