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"Less debate and more action". That was the call from some 20,000 people in Barcelona for today's Fridays For Future climate protest. The demonstration started at 6pm at Jardinets de Gràcia, from where attendees walked to plaça Catalunya along passeig de Gràcia, arriving shortly after half seven.

Fridays For Future is an international movement calling for action to tackle the climate emergency. It in August 2018 when teenager Greta Thunberg staged a solitary protest outside the Swedish parliament; since then it has spread to dozens of countries, attracting hundreds of thousands of protesters worldwide.

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The demonstrators, the majority of them families and young people, carried placards in different languages with slogans like "there's no planet B" and "change the system, not the climate".

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There, a number of speeches were given, calling on governments to take action and change the status quo.

"The climate crisis is undeniable. They've destroyed the Earth and inequality has increased", Fridays For Future spokespeople said. "The Earth's resources, like our bodies, are finite", they said, but nonetheless, "tropical rainforests are being cut down all the time". "We're not doing things well." They said they will "continue fighting until we see a change. [...] We'll continue fighting. We're nature defending herself."

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Also to speak were three children from Families for Future, calling for support for the first people the crisis is affecting and denouncing the current situation in the Amazon.

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Between the different speeches there were also musical performances and castells human towers.

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Demonstrations around Catalonia

Barcelona wasn't the only place in Catalonia to see a climate protest today. In Girona, more than 5,000 people, again, most of them young, took to the cities streets, whilst some 2,000 people turned out in Tarragona. In Lleida, there were 1,000 people along the Segre river whilst local police in Manresa says 1,200 attended the rally in the city.