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Authors: Martin Bagnol & David Bola
Photo Credit: Sarah Leveaux
Ahead of the protest taking place in Place Bellecour in Lyon (this Saturday 26th of March at 2pm), we met with two young activists from Youth for Climate to discuss the movement's strategy and their political response to current environmental issues.
Could you introduce Youth for Climate and its branch based in Lyon?
Youth for Climate is the French branch of Fridays for Future, the global movement that was launched in 2019 following the initiative of Greta Thunberg. We started with demonstrations, then we diversified with different tactics.
We use civil disobedience as well as chalk action and degradations. For example, we tore down huge advertising billboards at Place Bellecour in Lyon. We have a principle which is the diversity of tactics.
It's the idea that we're faced with an emergency so important, that all actions, including those outside the legal framework can be legitimate, and we allow ourselves to use them as long as they don't involve any violence against a physical person. We don't consider that it's really violence as long as no one is physically o...
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