WATCH: Students around the world go on strike demanding action against climate change.
, stopping traffic outside the country's Parliament.
"When our president ... goes on television and says everything we're taught in school is wrong, how do you think that makes students feel?" Prestigiacomo said."All I want is evidence-based politics." In criticizing the Trump administration and backing a Democrat-led proposal that may alienate some youth, the movement has showed that it was politically adept, according to John Barry, a professor of green political economy at Queen's University Belfast.
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