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September 27, 2021

Activists Take to Streets for Global Climate Strike
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Hundreds of thousands of youth climate activists took to the streets
Friday for the annual Global Climate Strike. Protests took place across
the globe demanding radical action from world leaders to fight the
climate catastrophe. This is Maria Reyes, a climate justice activist in
Mexico.

Maria Reyes: "Climate crisis is not a thing that will happen in 10 or 15
years. Climate crisis is here. Mexico is one of the most affected
countries in Latin America. We have scarcity. We have droughts. We have
floods. We have heat waves. We are dying of thirst. We are dying because
of heat, and the government is still financing the fossil fuel
industry."



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