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Inside Climate News: How the Climate Crisis Fueled the Youth Protests Roiling France

Inside Climate News: How the Climate Crisis Fueled the Youth Protests Roiling France

The heating planet is fueling unrest, that’s been clear. The past month of youth protests in France, which come after the country’s hottest year, are just one example.

The students’ demands are far-ranging: more teachers, smaller class sizes, a shortened school day and an overhaul of the post-secondary college application system. But the heart of the revolt is indignation over crumbling school infrastructure—a problem laid bare by climate-change-fueled heat waves.

This year was France’s hottest on record, and the country counted 8,000 excess deaths during the summer’s heat waves. In June alone, deaths spiked 11 percent compared to the same month in 2025.

France’s schools, meanwhile, were not built for the hotter world the students have inherited after generations of fossil fuel use have warped the climate. Many buildings were designed to hold onto heat; air conditioning is rare. As classrooms recorded temperature peaks above 100 degrees Fahrenheit this spring, schools reported incidents from fainting to nosebleeds.

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Sign of Resistance – Willoughby Hills, Ohio

David Joyce is the Republican representative for Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. You know who Musk is.

I spotted this at a small plaza at the intersection of Bishop and Chardon Roads in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. It’s a solidly conservative area so I decided it would be an instructive exercise to watch its evolution over the following days.

Day 1 – stapled to a utility wall, facing west; day 2 – laying on the ground (as pictured), either torn or ripped from the pole; and day 3 – gone. Either thrown away or blown away.

Anti-Government Demostrations in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thousands of people in Ljubljana, Slovenia, mostly riding bicycles, protested for the fifth (or sixth?) straight Friday against the center-right government of Prime Minister Janez Janša, demonstrations that began at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in late March. Bikes were used in the early protests to align with restrictions on public gatherings and the… Continue reading →

11 Photos From A Palestine Solidarity Rally In Geneva

International condemnation of last week’s massacre in Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces continues.  Sixty Palestinians were killed, including eight children and one health worker, and another 2,771 injured by live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas used by Israeli forces who were targeting demonstrators, marking May 14 as the deadliest in Gaza since 2014. Of those… Continue reading →

Injustice Case by David Hammons

This is Injustice Case (1970) by David Hammons From the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at the Tate Modern in London, an examination and celebration of the work of black artists produced from 1963 to 1983.

The piece, painted in 1970, was created in response to Chicago 8 trial of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, who was gagged and chained to his chair for much of the courtroom proceedings.

Eye-catching and eye-opening, and most importantly, still very fresh and relevant.

London, August 2017

Slovenian artist on hunger strike to protest lack of arts funding and ‘bureaucratization of culture’

Slovenian artist Miha Tursic

This is Miha Turšič, a Slovenian artist who today spent his 15th day on a hunger strike to protest what he calls the “bureaucratization of culture” and the lack of state funding for the arts in this small alpine nation. In my experience –mainly through the stories of exasperation shared by colleagues and friends who… Continue reading →