Thousands of Australian businesses will join many thousands of school children who are preparing to walk out of classrooms across the country to demand action on the climate crisis.
The global mass day of action will take place this Friday 20 September, three days before the United Nations climate summit in New York.
It follows strikes in March this year in which 150,000 people marched in Australia and 1.5 million took part worldwide.
Organisers expect Friday’s global strikes will be bigger and, this time there will be a much stronger presence from workers and companies that have signed up to strike.
Hundreds of Australian businesses are making a pledge to their employees that they will support their participation in the climate strike, through different means.
- Future Super is closing the office for a day
- Atlassian’s employees are using a “Foundation Day” to join the strike
- Other organisations are holding a “no meetings” day
The details for capital cities are as follows (all times are local).
• Sydney 12 noon – The Domain
• Melbourne 2pm – Treasury Gardens
• Brisbane 1pm – Queens Gardens
• Canberra 12 noon – Glebe Park
• Adelaide 12 noon – Victoria Square
• Darwin 1pm – Parliament
• Perth 11am – Forrest Place
• Hobart 12 pm – Parliament
The full list of strike locations is here.
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