In November 2023 climate activist Greta Thunberg made international headlines when she was interrupted during a speech to a Dutch climate protest, after stating that climate justice can’t happen without international solidarity against oppression.
Sharing the stage with Sahar Shirzad from Afghanistan and Sara Rachdan from Palestine, who spoke about the fight for climate justice as a fight for freedom from oppression, Thunberg was applauded by the 70,000-strong Amsterdam crowd. But a man cut her short by grabbing the mic and saying that he came for ‘a climate demonstration, not a political view’.1
