Brussels: mass protests of climate change and pollution are remarkably White

Posted by DanielS on Monday, 28 January 2019 16:48.

In Brussels, students skip school for mass global warming protest

EURACTIV.com with Reuters Jan 25, 2019:

Belgian students gather to call for urgent measures to combat climate change during a demonstration in Brussels, Belgium, 24 January 2019. According the police more than 35,000 students are taking part in the demonstration.
   
Thousands of Belgian school children skipped classes on Thursday (24 January) to flood Brussels in an unprecedented protest against global warming and pollution, vowing to miss school once a week until the government takes action.

Students banging drums and carrying signs decrying man-made climate change gathered around the European Parliament.

Police said the 35,000-strong gathering was the biggest turnout of recent times for a student protest in the Belgian capital, which is also home to European Union institutions.

“If we skip every Thursday, if we don’t go to school, the big people in our country and in the world will see that this is a problem,” said high school student Joppe Mathys.

Another student held a sign saying: “Be part of the solution, not the pollution.”

A nine-year-old girl, who gave her name only as Lalla and was with her teacher, said it was time people stopped driving cars and walked and cycled instead.

“Dinosaurs thought they had time too,” read one banner.

The Brief – The future is theirs… unless we destroy it first

Belgian school students feel abandoned by their politicians so they have started a weekly strike for the climate. Their protests pose a major question about how young people are represented in politics ahead of the EU elections in May.

Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said the student demonstration was the biggest in recent memory.

Broad protests started across Belgium on 2 December with a “Claim the Climate” march, when over 65,000 demonstrators called for Belgian and European leaders to adopt ambitious climate policies in line with goals set by the Paris agreement in 2015. That demonstration came before the COP24 UN climate summit in Poland, where a report was released ranking Belgium 31 out of 60 on the 2019 Climate Change Performance Index, or a “medium” performance in implementing the Paris agreements. Brussels has been regularly ranked as one of the most congested cities in western Europe in recent years due to Belgium’s high population density and large number of commuters.

That is also a mark of shame for a capital where the EU sets European climate policies.

Across the EU, road congestion costs the bloc one percent of its annual economic output, or €100 billion per year, according to the European Commission.

German anti-coal demonstrations: ‘We’re running out of time’

In the run-up to the UN climate conference, which began in Katowice in Poland on 2 December, many thousands of people demonstrated to support accelerating the phasing out of the coal industry. EURACTIV Germany reports.



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Posted by Jon Snow on Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:54 | #

Sun, 29 Mar 2019:

JON Snow sparked fury online after saying of tonight’s pro-Brexit rally: “I’ve never seen so many white people in one place”.

The Channel 4 News broadcaster, 71, made the comment after seeing images of Brexiteers demonstrating outside Downing Street.

Jon Snow made the controversial observation during live coverage of the pro-Brexit protest in Westminster this evening.

Protesters outside the gates of Downing Street this evening - after Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson spoke to the crowds earlier in the day
Thousands of people turned out to march on Westminster this afternoon on the day that the UK was supposed to leave the EU.

So far, five arrests have been made around Whitehall where marchers have been singing Land of Hope and Glory and waving Union Jacks throughout the day.

But as Snow spoke over images of the protesters near No 10, he made a comment about the race of protesters.

Speaking live from Parliament Square, he said: “We’ve just got these pictures in which were taken nearby.

“Police are now wearing riot gear. Police dogs are patrolling. The mood has changed.

“We cannot confirm whether any arrests have been made.

“It has been the most extraordinary day. A day which has seen… I’ve never seen so many white people in one place.

“It’s an extraordinary story — there are people everywhere, there are crowds everywhere.”

‘STUPID COMMENT’
Clips of Snow’s comment were shared online triggering a backlash from social media users.

One said: “What a stupid comment.

“You’re literally looking to vilify anyone that you don’t agree with and make out this is about or race or something.

“Poor journalism, very poor.”

Diana Harding added: “I cannot believe I have just heard this! Channel 4 News and Jon Snow sink to a new low!”

And another tweeted: “Has he never watched an FA cup final at Wembley, or gone to Glastonbury? Seeing as he lives in a country which is majority white people, seems like something he would [have] seen in his decades of life.”

@jonsnowC4 closing remarks on @Channel4News tonight, as mob assembles outside @10DowningStreet, “I’ve never seen so many white people in one place.” #c4news #BrexitShambles



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