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2nd Wave of Protests Caps Week Focused on Climate Action

Associated Press

   BERLIN - Students took to the streets across the globe in the hundreds
   of thousands Friday for a second wave of worldwide protests demanding
   swift action on climate change.

   The protests were inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who
   spoke to world leaders this week at a United Nations summit in New
   York.

   Friday's rallies kicked off in New Zealand, where young people marched
   on Parliament in Wellington, holding one of the largest protests ever
   held there. Organizers in the capital were forced to change their
   security plans to accommodate the crowds, while thousands more marched
   in Auckland and other parts of the country.

   On the other side of the planet, more than 100,000 rallied in Italy's
   capital, Rome, where protesters held up signs with slogans such as
   "Change the system, not the climate" or just the word "Future."

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