Fridays for Future

And then another plaintiff out west is Simon.

He was really engaged in Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future.

And he actually had to leave his school because they were upset about the fact that he was participating in walkouts every Friday.

So he's been homeschooled for a significant period of his educational lifetime.

Maybe you're right, maybe not.

There's actually a lot of good evidence that Extinction Rebellion protests, the Fridays for Future, the Great Athunberg Movement,

did

an enormous amount of good.

S-K-O-L-S-T-R-E-J-K for K-L-I-M-A-T-E-T.

School strike for climate.

No slogan beneath it, no decoration, nothing to soften or explain.

The bluntness is the point.

So I was waiting for two days' link of that story.

And then at some point we heard the young woman from Fridays for Future, St. Petra Kelly, as her spiritual heritage.

And then I knew, so now it's the right time.

And then I approached Doris Metz to direct it.

It's such an awesome community to be a part of, and everyone loves to listen to new mu- new music and invite different bands to play, which I think is really cool.

Um, so yeah, band days this year, I think in terms of performance, the first one we did was the School Strike for Climate gig, which I absolutely loved.

I thought it was such an awesome opportunity for such a good cause.

Uh, and we got to play at Space Academy, which I had never been to, but it's this place where bands play quite often in the center of Christchurch, and it's su- just such an awesome kind of political space where you get to share your music, like, and everyone has the same opinions as me [laughs] which is also really cool.

And it was after the Paris Agreement in 2015 and before the Corona pandemic, COVID pandemic hit the world.

We had those big Fridays for Future demos here in Germany as well.

One with over 50,000 people here in Bremen and Germany.

People from my company were there, my family was there and so on.

That was when basically almost every country on Earth, apart from two, said, yes, this climate thing is a real thing.

We need to just do something about it.

And when you spoke about the Fridays for Future, that was like in Germany, as well as like the rest of the world.

But there was like every Friday, people would turn up at lunchtime and you'd have all these protests, all these demonstrations.

Mm.

Um, it originated from the 2019 School Strike for Climate.

Mm.

And yeah, there were six regional metro mums, um, that went along to those and were really concerned about climate and was like, "Well, where, where are the parents? Where are the adults in this conversation?" And yeah, I guess that's how the organization was formed.