Making a Global Climate Wake-up Call on Sept. 21

categories: Activism, DIY, Imagining the Future, International Action

Published September 17, 2009 @ 05:40PM PT

Activists are not letting next week's UN Climate Summit get by without a demonstration of support for action on global warming...350 demonstrations and counting, actually, in 52 countries all around the world, on September 21, between 12:18 and 12:30 PM.

They're all part of a remarkably de-centralized climate action called the Global Wake-up Call, telling world leaders to stop "sleepwalking into a crisis of epic and historical proportions."

The coalition pulling this together is called TckTckTck. Why the tick tock? The campaign is counting down the time to December's international climate talks in Copenhagen.

The array of online materials is well-thought-out: Folks wanting to join or create a rally, flash mob, or other event or can use this interactive map to find one or set one up for others to find. There's also an online toolkit with a lot of good resources, including ample information, event ideas, printouts, media materials, and a twitter-like forum for sharing ideas with other organizers (that be read in English, Français, Español, or Deutsch), and more.

TckTckTck's concise message is that world leaders must negotiate a "FABulous" global treaty to avert catastrophic climate change:

We want our political leaders to be in Copenhagen and to show historic leadership in achieving a treaty which is: FABulous.

FAIR: for the poorest countries that did not cause climate change but are suffering most from it.

AMBITIOUS: enough to leave a planet safe for us all.

BINDING: with real targets that can be legally monitored and enforced.

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Also happening on 9/21...

http://www.ageofstupid.net/global_premiere

Posted by Sue G. on 09/17/2009 @ 07:16PM PT
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This film is not showing in Australia :(

Change guys, we need to have an events schedule site where you can click on your local actions, and also global actions and give us at least a month's notice. Baby boomers are not as quick off the mark anymore - we're dancing as fast as we can!

Posted by Oceania OZ on 09/17/2009 @ 08:45PM PT
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Thanks for the film pointer, Sue.

In our recent five questions with Bill McKibben, he described how to get involved with 350.org's international Day of Climate Action on October 24. Perhaps that's far enough into the future to accommodate the aching bones of baby boomers. ;-)

Posted by Emily Gertz on 09/18/2009 @ 08:21AM PT
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Thanks Emily. Just found it on Facebook. Now if I could just figure out how to WORK Facebook, I might get somewhere. It took me a month to figure out how to work Change!

Posted by Oceania OZ on 09/19/2009 @ 07:00AM PT
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