Fridays for Future protests call for peace and climate justice
By DW
28 March 2022 |
5:08 am
Coordinated global demonstrations drew thousands of mostly young people calling for climate leadership under the motto "People not Profit." In Germany, the war in Ukraine and bans on Russian fossil fuels were in focus.
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