Students from across the HRM came to the streets today to protest climate Change.

“It’s really our future that we are trying to save right now because we really only have 12 years left.”

Students from across the HRM came to the streets today to protest climate Change.

Julia Sampson and Emma Golden are two of the 6 organizers from Citadel High School,

” I have always been interested in Climate change and about my future and after seeing what has happened in Sweden I thought that we should really start something in Halifax because I know that there is a lot of people here who feel the same way that I do about climate change.” said 16 year old Julia Sampson. ”This is something that we should have acted on yesterday”.

The students started at the Public Gardens where then marched down to Andy Fillmore’s office on Brunswick Street. The crowd broke out in chants of “we are crying, the planet is dying” the march continued to city hall where students shared their messages and their reasons for caring so much. The girls knew to come into this that neither Andy Fillmore nor Major Mike Savage would be in office but they still wanted them to know that they were there.

Students from Grammar School say that they were encouraged to attend today’s march. While a boy who helped organize the event decided not to go due to the risk of losing a position on Student Council. The boy’s mother said that something like this should be seen as an in-school activity and teachers should be encouraging this type of action.

This is the second march to take place this year in Halifax, back in March, the students took place in an