Campaign Against Climate Change: World Climate Protest, Saturday December 8th
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
1:32 PM
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CONTACT: Campaign Against Climate Change
email: info@campaigncc.org
Phil Thornhill, 02078339311,
07903316331
Sam Urquhart 07866 591 911
Fiona Dear 07905 312 163
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Tens of Thousands to Rally in London as part of World Climate Protest
Saturday December 8th
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LONDON - November 28 -There will be a mass climate demonstration in London1 on Saturday, December 8th, part of a global protest with demonstrations and events in more than 50 countries around the world 2. The worldwide protests will coincide with the UN Climate talks in Bali and demand urgent action from world leaders to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate
The London demonstrators will march to the US embassy to protest against the Bush administration continuing to block progress at the crucial international Climate Talks. However the march will start near the House of Commons where demonstrators will demand a strong and effective Climate Bill from the UK government.
Timetable for Saturday December 8th
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10.00 am Cycle Protest assembles at Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
12.00 noon. Demonstrators assemble for main march at Millbank.
1.00 pm Demonstrators march past Parliament and deliver a letter to No 10 Downing Street
2.30pm Protestors gather outside the US embassy, having marched there via Trafalgar Square
and Piccadilly circus. Speeches from Chris Huhne MP, Michael Meacher MP,
Caroline Lucas MEP, and George Monbiot.
Phil Thornhill from the Campaign against Climate Change said “As the Arctic shrinks before our eyes and warnings from the scientists reach a deafening crescendo still world leaders fail to take any effective action to head off looming catastrophe. As Greece and California burn, as Bangladeshis drown and Britain floods, alarm and anger around the world are beginning to mount, above all against the Bush administration in the USA, the calculating obstructionism of which now stands out ever more clearly as a crime against humanity, with the potential to be more fatefully destructive in its impact than all the great genocides of the past century put together. And the realisation dawns here in the UK, that we need a government that can show real leadership and mobilise the whole of society to face this crisis, not one that tells us to boil less water in our kettles whilst it continues to build more roads, runways and coal-fired power stations.”
Notes:
1/ Last year on November 4th, during the Nairobi climate Talks, 25 to 30 thousand people gathered in Trafalgar Square to demand effective action on climate change. On December 3rd 2005 during the Montreal Climate Talks 10,000 marched in London. This year’s London protest is matched by demonstrations in Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin.
2/ To find out what is happening where go to www.globalclimatecampaign.org On November 4th 2006 there were demonstrations and events in more than 30 countries - with 90,000 demonstrating in Australia, 30, 000 in the UK and thousands in France, Bolivia, the USA, Kenya and other places. This year already more than a 100,000 have joined rallies for the Step it Up campaign calling for action on climate in the USA and 120,000 “Walked against Warming” in Australia on November 11th. The December 8th demonstrations will include a big Berlin Rally organised by the new German “Klima-Allianz”, a massive demonstration in Brussells, an angry protest in Athens after the devastating Greek brush fires, protests in more than 17cities in Canada, 6 cities in Taiwan and a rally of thousands in Nepal………and more….
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