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Greta Thunberg comes to Iowa

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October 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A teenage climate change activist from Sweden says she’ll be in Iowa tomorrow (Friday). Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg has won global attention. Just Monday, she addressed the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit in New York City, giving its leaders a firm rebuke: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Thunberg tweeted on Wednesday that she plans to visit Iowa City on Friday to take part in a student-led protest. What’s being called a climate strike was started by students at Iowa City’s South East Junior High and it’s spread to other area schools as well as to the University of Iowa.