Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman on stage at a climate protest in the Dutch capital.After the Palestinian and Afghan women spoke and Thunberg resumed her speech, a man came onto the stage and told Thunberg: “I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view,” before he was ushered off the stage.
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00:00 As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed
00:06 and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice.
00:10 We are destabilizing the biosphere and the very systems we depend on to survive as a civilization.
00:20 We are not standing on the brink of a catastrophe, we are living in it.
00:26 People on the front lines of the climate crisis have been experiencing the first hand consequences of it for decades now.
00:34 And they have been sounding the alarm, but we have not been listening.
00:38 The people in power have not been listening.
00:40 I come here for a climate demonstration, not a political coup.
00:44 This is a climate demonstration.
00:51 Calm down.
00:55 Calm down.
00:57 Calm down.
00:59 Calm down.
01:01 Calm down.
01:03 [Silence]