The Return of May '68: Students Launch Occupations for Climate Justice. 'We will be the spark that ignites the rest of society into action.'
Sleeping bags, backpacks, shoes, and dishes from last night's dinner are scattered around the halls. It has been three days since students at Liceu Camões, a high school in central Lisbon, began their occupation, using time away from class to educate each other on what really matters in a planet on fire: climate justice, revolutionary politics, and movement strategy. Grassroots teach-ins are interwoven with drums and chants that interrupt those remaining in class.
In the morning hours before the school day began, students erected haphazard barricades, clicked themselves into metal"lock-ons," and clambered onto the roof with drums and banners. The school was shut down. The youth had relinquished their consent for a system that expected obedience over survival. Under the banner,"be realistic, ask for the impossible," Parisian students created a revolutionary moment. Now, we too must be realistic—we are in planetary emergency—and ask for the impossible—end fossil.49 additional schools and universities like Liceu Camões were occupied between September to December 2022. For the first time, the youth climate movement radicalized its tactics and demands in an internationally coordinated action against the fossil economy.
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