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Global Youth Climate Strike Expected To Draw Large Crowds

Strike organizers are calling on their fellow young people to skip school Friday and rally to demand greater action against climate change.

Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world plan to skip school today for what organizers call a Global Climate Strike.

The focus for young activists is the United Nations Climate Action Summit taking place Monday in New York City.

The strike's figurehead is 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who traveled from Sweden to New York . A little

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