On Friday, Oct. 25, over a hundred students, parents and other climate activists gathered in Victoria Park in Halifax for the School Strike 4 Climate protest. The protesters marched down South Street to the Nova Scotia Power building before heading up Spring Garden Road, carrying signs, shaking noisemakers and chanting.
School Strike 4 Climate is a grassroots organization run by high school and university students. The Halifax organization began six years ago, inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement.
Amelia Penney-Crocker, a student at the University of King’s College, has been organizing climate protests for the past five years.
“Honestly, the organizing of this strike was a tad selfish,” Penney-Crocker said. “I felt like I was going to lose myself in the helplessness.”
Penney-Crocker said the strike was a way for students to come together with their community and express their anger at the government’s inaction in the face of the ongoing climate crisis.
“We must have solidarity to stop this crisis and live with the damage that has been done,” said Penney-Crocker in her speech at the protest. “We cannot be driven apart, we must stand together. This is too important, you are all too important.”
The organizers of the School Strike 4 Climate protest pose with a banner at Victoria Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. School Strike 4 Climate is a grassroots organization run entirely by high school and university students.
Amelia Penney-Crocker helps a young protester lead a chant at the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. The majority of protesters at the march were children and young adults.
A group of students listen as climate activists give speeches at the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Many students spoke, sang and recited poetry at the protest.
A climate activist delivers a speech at the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. The speaker said, “In my lifetime, I have seen climate change go from something that might affect us in 300 years to something that is affecting us now.”
Two protesters rest on a bench in Victoria Park during the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Many parents, grandparents and other adults joined the students in protest.
School Strike 4 Climate protesters march down South Park Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. The protesters stopped traffic at intersections and drew the attention of pedestrians as they marched.
Organizer Amelia Penney-Crocker stands on top of a hill to lead School Strike 4 Climate protesters in a chant outside the Nova Scotia Power building in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. The wind whipped around the protesters as they yelled, “Hey! Ho! Fossil fuels have got to go!”
A woman dressed as a clown holds up a sign and chants with the group of protesters at the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. She and another woman dressed as clowns and carried a large banner that stated, “Quit clowning around—Coastal Protection Act now!”
Layla Caprice shouts through a megaphone at the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Many students brought megaphones, speakers and other noise makers to the protest.
A protester holds up a sign during the School Strike 4 Climate protest in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Many protesters clutched signs calling out the Nova Scotian government for their inaction in the face of the climate crisis.
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