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September 30, 2019 The Voice of the Students Volume 75, Issue 2 AU Students Join Global Climate Strike in New York City The event kicked off the day before, BY DELPHIAN STAFF September 19, when about 35 students gathered on campus to make the posters When an estimated 250,000 for the march, with slogans like: “Make marchers—mostly youth—gathered in love not CO2,” “Some action would be Foley Square and marched to Battery Park nice,” and “Go green. There is no planet in New York City on Friday, September B.” 20, about 70 of the participants were Alina Campbell, president of Adelphi students, professors, staff and the Environmental Action Coalition on their families. They joined 4 million campus, which organized the sign-making others worldwide in Global Climate event, said she was surprised that many Strikes inspired by Swedish climate students came to make a poster even activist Greta Thunberg, who also though they were not attending the march. marched in the city. It has since been “I believe for those not attending, billed as the largest mass protest for just making a poster made them feel as action on global warming in history with if they were doing their part. In a way over 2,500 events in over 163 countries they were, as they were able to also get a on all seven continents. In New York, message across with their posters, which at the march and the rally that followed were donated the next morning to climate in Battery Park, participants demanded strike attendees,” said Campbell, a senior action by elected officials on the climate biology major and chemistry minor in the crisis.
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