GLOBAL Day of Action Against Climate Change
Added by: Jonny Currie | Starts on: Saturday 06 December 2008 at 12:00 | Ends on: Saturday 06 December 2008 at 17:00 | Campaign: Healthy Planet
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March on Parliament to demand that the government acts on climate now !
Part of a Global Day of Action - see [www.globalclimatecampaign.org]http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org) - last year 70+ countries were involved !
The march this year goes to Parliament Square to demand that the government act now on climate. The march will start at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park - assemble 12 noon. Full schedule available at http://www.campaigncc.org/demo2008schedule.shtml
Speakers will include Nick Clegg (leader Liberal Democrat Party), Caroline Lucas (leader, Green party), Michael Meacher (ex-Environment Minister) and George Monbiot (Honorary President, Campaign against Climate Change).
The march will be preceeded by a climate protest bike ride starting from Lincoln's Inn Fields at 10.30 am: see more at: http://www.campaigncc.org/bikeride.shtml
UK Youth Climate Coalition
The UK Youth Climate Coalition is a new youth-led organisation that is uniting diverse groups of young people to voice a generational concern on climate change. They've just announced the first ever UK Youth Delegation to the UN Climate Change talks, and are building the movement by bringing as many young people to the National Climate March on December 6th.
If you're interested in finding out more email hello@ukycc.org, or visit our National Climate March website www.ourtimeisnow.org.uk and get in touch with Matt the Action Coordinator at matt@ukycc.org. Youth of the United Kingdom, our time is now.'
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