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In Australia, hundreds of students have gathered in front of Melbourne’s Flinders Street station, with schoolchildren walking out of class to attend the strike. Some students were draped in the Palestinian flag while others held “Free Palestine” posters.
The students participating in the schools strike spilt out onto the road to block the city’s busy Flinders and Swanston street intersection.
To strike for Palestine, to defy our principals and politicians who tell us we don’t know what we’re talking about.
I walked out of school today with all of you to take a stand on the right side of history.
