International Day of Climate Action

Claire Thompson, Waves PR

This weekend, there will be over four thousand events taking place simultaneously in over 175 nations – quite possibly the single most widespread day of political action about any issue that our planet has ever seen.

Highlighting these issues ahead of December’s Copenhagen climate change conference will offer a clear mandate to politicians for change.

Some of the events highlighted by 350.org include:

• In Cambodia, citizens from across the country will gather at the famous Angkor Wat to take a giant 350 action photo.
• In Hungary, hundreds of bathers will jump into the public baths in Budapest and do a 350 synchronized swimming performance.
• In Nepal, over a thousand young people and monks will march to the Swayambhunath world heritage site temple where they will form a large 350 with traditional lanterns.
• In the United States, 350 people will dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller in Seattle — because if we don’t stop global warming, we might as well be undead.
• In Panama, indigenous youth will lead a moonlight vigil in Kuna Yala, their vulnerable low-lying islands off the coast of Panama, forming a 350 at sunrise. (How lovely – I am dying to see the pics from this)

350.org will be taking photos from all the events, projecting them on the big screens in New York’s Times Square, and delivering them to major media outlets and  hundreds of world leaders in the coming weeks.  The combined noise from these events will ensure that world leaders who gather next month at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to create the world’s new plan on climate change will hear our call.  They will know that when negotiating the fate of our planet, there is a passionate movement out there which will hold them accountable.

SO:

This is the link you need for 350.org to sign up or to see the pictures afterwards: http://www.350.org/

This is the link you’ll need to see if there’s an event on near you: www.350.org/map

My contribution?  I’m posting this blog in the hopes a few more people will choose to be involved (and thanks to 350.org for many of the words here); and as we can’t get to an event for various reasons, we’re taking children out on an Autumn nature hunt and will share some of the pictures.

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