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GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE PROTEST - Sat 4 November

ECO-WARRIOR | 01.11.2006 16:58

Rally at US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, 12.00 noon
One of over 40 demonstration globally to coincide with International talks on climate change in Nairobi

MAIN PROTEST AT 12 NOON, US EMBASSY

Timetable:

10.00am Cycle protest assembles at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, South side (Holborn/Temple tube). Goes via ExxonMobil offices, Australian Embassy and Downing Street to arrive at US embasy at 11.30 am. For more information on the cycle ride click here.
11.00am Rally opens : Messages from around the world, performance poetry & musical protest with "Seize the Day" and others.

12 noon MAIN RALLY AT US EMBASSY, GROSVENOR SQUARE.
Speakers include George Monbiot, Colin Challen MP, Caroline Lucas MEP, Norman Baker MP, Zac Goldsmith.

1.00 pm March for Global Climate Justice from US embassy to Trafalgar Square.
See the route of the march here.
1.45 – 2.00 pm March joins “I-Count” Mass Gathering in Trafalgar Square
1.00 - 3.00
pm “I-Count” Mass Gathering in Trafalgar Square


The 4th November is the Saturday before the UN Climate Talks (COP 12/ MOP 2) in Nairobi (6th-17th November). On this day there will be demonstrations and events, demanding urgent action on climate change all round the world ( see www.globalclimatecampaign.org ). In Nairobi, itself, there will be a demonstration a week later on Saturday 11th November, midway through the Talks, whilst the delegates are actually present.

Only coordinated international action has a chance of averting the massive threat posed by climate change so these Talks are a critical opportunity for world leaders to act. Their failure to do so, so far - due especially to the spoiling tactics of the US under George Bush’s fossil-fuel industry dominated administration - is something that threatens the lives of billions and even the very existence of life on earth.

Last year we had 10,000 on the streets of London and demonstrations in more than 20 countries : this year we need more people at the London demo and more demonstrations around the world. And we need to build the demonstrations - nationally and globally - bigger again each year until we have created an irresistible tidal wave of protest that will push world leaders to take the radical action we so urgently need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate.

ECO-WARRIOR
- Homepage: http://www.campaigncc.org

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