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Showing posts with label rally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rally. Show all posts

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Together We Shifted the Zeitgeist On Oct. 24, 2009

Look at the news coverage!
Cambie Street bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Cambie+Street+Bridge+partly+closed+Saturday+climate+action+march/2139392/story.html
Pictures on BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8323954.stm
And go to http://www.350.org/
for more pictures: the one taken in Iraq brought tears to my eyes.  It is a photo of one person holding up a 350 banner with the caption The Power of One.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

All Around the World On Oct. 24, 2009


Vienna, Austria (because I am thinking about my beloved friends there) and I cannot in good conscience fly there to visit them.

All Around The World On Oct. 24, 2009


Hyderbad, India
Check out all the other photos on
We are part of an amazing movement!

Oct. 24, 2009 350.org rally in Kamloops


Oct. 24, 2009 350 .org rally


350 . org rally in Kamloops On Oct. 24, 2009


350.org Rally in Kamloops on Oct. 24, 2009

More than 100 people came to the rally - signed petitions, wrote letters to the Right Hon. Stephen Harper, listened to speakers and singers, greeted old friends, made new ones, and made a difference!  Please see the pictures posted above or check out http://www.350.org/ .    Thank you all for attending the rally and sending all those letters to the Prime Minister!  Kamloops ROCKS!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Climate Change Rally

I am a member of the Unitarian Universalist Social and Environmental committee. We are planning a small rally at the Farmer's Market on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at 11:00 am in Kamloops in support of
 http://www.350.org/
This site (started by Bill McKibben) encourages people all over the world to demonstrate their support for a safe climate future. Their mission is " to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet." Please come to the rally  and help put pressure on Canadian politicians to  work for a "for an ambitious, fair, and binding global climate deal" at the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen.