Climate strike: Students protest in San Francisco, Chicago, New York
NEW YORK – A boisterous crowd of at least 100,000 people turned out to chant and march in Manhattan on Friday, joining hundreds of thousands of protesters from Australia to Thailand to London in Global Climate Strike rallies to express their concern about climate change.
While supporters of all ages turned out, the day was billed as a walkout by high school students to call on world leaders to step up their efforts against carbon emissions and other environmental issues.
New York City schools excused the city's 1.1 million students from class to participate.
"Climate change is worse than homework," read one homemade sign among the crowd marching from Foley Square to City Hall. At one point, the crowd chanted: “That’s bulls--t, get off it, our planet’s not for profit!”
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