Temperatures have dropped in recent days in the northern Italian city of Turin, but that hasn’t prevented Anita Iacovelli from persevering in her protest against the closure of her school. It began as a lone protest but Anita was soon joined by her friend Lisa Rogliatti and other classmates, before the initiative gathered momentum across Italy. “But then it became extremely heavy and we got very tired.”Anita and Lisa in front of the Italo Calvino school in Turin. Within weeks all high school classes were again moved online as the coronavirus second wave took hold. “But Anita says ‘I’m Anita, not Greta’,” said her mother, Cristiana Perrone.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2020 07:52 UTC