Today many activists including; envirionmentalists, occupiers and supporters, gathered at St Paul’s for Climate Impacts Day and International Stop the Tar Sands Day to #ConnectTheDots between people, polluters, power and profit. The Occupy General Assembly heard from communities impacted by the extreme flooding in Pakistan, explored the most devastating industrial operation on Earth, endangering our very survival, and supported the Ecocide campaign to make mass-destruction of ecosystems the 5th international crime against peace. 

We bridged the desensitised media narrative of extreme weather events by engaging in a game of Giant Climate Twister in the rain, took a public tour across the river, and stood in solidarity with 350.org actions around the globe with a photo stunt outside the cathedral.

After being moved on from the Tate, for highlighting its dirty sponsorship from BP, a Shell-shocking screening of “Taking on Tarmageddon” under a walkway near Festival Hall, provided an evening of entertainment for security and spectators alike.

We are not afraid to take on the corporations, corrupt politicians or their footsoldiers, because we are awakened to what is at stake. The whole system, the eco-system of all life, the “home”-system of planet Earth demands a massive overhaul of the human species, and our attitudes and behaviours imprinted on the world for the future. As we look at the energy building through May towards the United Nations Earth Summit in June, we know we cannot afford another year of international negotiating failure, with no ambitious agreement or outcome to safeguard the future for the 99%. The people, on mass, must take a stand, galvanizing global grassroots pressure like never before.

This begins here, with us: Occupy Earth Summit are preparing to join with thousands at the people’s summit in Rio and occupy the UN Conference on Sustainable Development; Occupy Climate have been drafting a statement of demands to the 193 United Nations heads of state, and call to action for every citizen of the world; Occupy Youth are in the fight for five minutes to share the fair #FutureWeWant in the very conference hall of world leaders at Rio: Support us to defend, respect & sustain Earth-systems and Eradicate Ecocide. Click the links to vote now.

This is just the beginning… And now the Earth does expect us.

Hope is rising and a resilient reality is distilling out of the dream.