Among the thousands of young people and radical leftwing opposition politicians in France protesting for better investment in crumbling schools, one famous face stood out from the crowds.
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Greta Thunberg joined the nationwide demonstrations which, now in their fourth week, have kept schools shuttered and imposed mounting pressure on Emmanuel Macron's debt-ridden government.
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which → join → government
More than 160,000 schoolchildren and trade unionists turned out across the country on Tuesday, with riot police firing teargas at marches in Nantes and near the Montparnasse area of Paris.
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police → turn → Paris
The Swedish climate activist joined pupils outside the Paul-Éluard lycée in Saint-Denis, where about 20 lawyers in robes formed a human chain to protect the teenagers from alleged police brutality.
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lawyers → join → brutality
'Young people are not being included in the conversation,' said the 23-year-old, who became famous as a teenager through school strikes demanding action on climate change.
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who → include → change
'Our future is being stolen from us and, as we have seen here, schools are not getting the investment they need,' she said, as similar demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and dilapidated school buildings were held in cities including Lyon, Lille and Marseille.
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demonstrations → steal → Lyon
This is not the first time Thunberg has travelled from Stockholm to rally behind leftwing causes around the world, which seemingly have nothing to do with the environment.
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which → travel → environment
From setting sail on the Gaza flotilla, to protesting in Norway for the rights of the Sami Indigenous people, and sending solidarity to transgender rights campaigners in Scotland, the climate activist has lent her support to a variety of causes over the years.
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg speaks with students as they prepare to take part in a blockade at the Lycee Paul Eluard in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris on October 13
The Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail from Barcelona towards Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain, on August 31, 2025
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (centre) is arrested during a climate march against fossil subsidies near the highway A12 in the Hague, on April 6, 2024
During the Israel-Hamas conflict, Thunberg made appearances at a number of pro-Palestine protests in opposition to the Israeli government's military campaign in Gaza.
After war broke out on October 7, 2023, she appeared at various demonstrations in Albania, Italy, Belgium, Germany, England and Denmark, often garbed in a keffiyeh scarf as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity.
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She was removed by police at a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the Malmo Arena venue ahead of the final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest 2024 on May 11.
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Thunberg was protesting against Israel's participation in the competition which saw the country's contestant Eden Golan finishing in fifth place overall.
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contestant → protest → place
The activist told the BBC that there was a 'moral obligation to act' and to speak out against Israel's military operation in Gaza.
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activist → tell → Gaza
In October 2025, she was detained by Israeli forces after the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) carrying aid bound for Gaza was intercepted.
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The flotilla had departed from Spain a month prior, with more than 40 ships and around 500 people aboard, including European parliamentarians, lawyers and activists, with the stated intention of taking aid directly into the Palestinian territory.
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Israel said its navy told the vessels to change course as they were 'approaching an active combat zone and violating a lawful naval blockade'.
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Around 443 people were detained from the ships, with activists alleging that many were assaulted with water cannon.
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Israel said at the time that those detained were 'safe and in good health'.
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those → say → health
The climate campaigner has also brought her anti-Israel activism to London.
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She was arrested in December 2025 after taking part in a demonstration holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers.
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Sitting outside a building used by Aspen Insurance, she held a poster saying: 'I support the Palestine Action prisoners.
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I oppose genocide.'
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Two other activists had allegedly earlier used repurposed fire extinguishers to cover the front of the building with red paint before locking themselves to it.
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The campaign group Prisoners for Palestine accused Aspen, a global specialty insurer and reinsurer, of providing services to Elbit Systems UK, a subsidiary of an Israeli weapons maker.
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The activist network also carried out the action in solidarity with prisoners who were on hunger strike while awaiting trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action, before the group was proscribed.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg takes part in the Stop Israel demonstration against Israel's participation in the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Malmo, Sweden, May 9, 2024
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (centre) and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila (right), along with other activists, after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on October 1, 2025
Activist Greta Thunberg joins the protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance and holds a sign saying 'I support Palestine Action Prisoners.
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I oppose Genocide' on December 23, 2025 in London
Thunberg lent her support to transgender rights campaigners in Edinburgh in December 2022, who attempted to block the screening of a film branded 'transphobic' by an academic union.
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who → oppose → union
An event organised by the Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom group (EAAF) was scheduled to show a film called Adult Human Female.
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The film was criticised by the university’s Pride society, and students subsequently occupied the lecture hall where it was due to take place in an attempt to prevent the screening.
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it → criticise → screening
Dylan Hamilton, an environmental activist, took to X to defend the student protest.
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'A screening of a transphobic film was to be held at Edinburgh Uni, we decided that wasn't happening.
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You don't get to spread hatred and expect to be unchallenged,' he said.
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Thunberg, who Hamilton reportedly spent time with at the previous year's COP26 in Glasgow, sent three love heart emojis to the campaigner in response.
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In October 2022, she joined hundreds of demonstrators at Medborgarplatsen, the 'citizens' square,' located south of Stockholm, to stand up for 'antifascism, antiracism, and climate justice'.
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According to Le Monde, the demonstrators were joined by Black Lives Matter activists and were supporting a transgender person from El Salvador whose request for asylum had been refused three times by the Swedish government.
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Sweden's Greta Thunberg (right) and other young climate activists from the 'Nature and Youth' and 'Norwegian Samirs Riksforbund Nuorat' groups block the entrance of Norway's Energy ministry as they protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used to her reindeer, in Oslo, on February 27, 2023
Greta Thunberg joins students and their supporters to offer support during the demonstration on July 26, 2026 in London, England.
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Supporters gather in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the resignation of Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
In 2023, Thunberg and dozens of activists blocked the entrance to Norway’s energy ministry in Oslo to protest a wind farm they said hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.
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The activists, mainly teenagers, lay outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading 'Land Back'.
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The protesters from organisations called Young Friends of The Earth Norway and the Norwegian Sami Association’s youth council NSR-Nuorat, said 'the ongoing human rights violations' against Sami reindeer herders 'must come to an end'.
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Several of the activists donned the Sami’s traditional bright-colored dress and put up a tent used by the Arctic people.
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In October 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that the construction of the wind turbines violated the rights of the Sami, who have been using the land to raise reindeer for centuries.
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In 2024, Norway finally reached an agreement with the Sami reindeer herders that allowed the country's largest wind farm to stay in operation, ending the years-long dispute.
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