tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

This guest post is from Phil at our partner 350.org reflecting on incredible year that was 2009 and the great work ahead for the climate movement in this new decade.

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President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives was the first head of state to arrive in Copenhagen yesterday, and his first public appearance was a giant rally with 350.org at the people’s forum.

Nasheed gave a rousing speech at the “Suicide Pact or Survival Pact?” event at Klimaforum hosted by TckTckTck partner 350.org. By the end, the crowd of a thousand people were all on their feet chanting 3-5-0!

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Climate awareness group 350.org are targeting the weekend of December 11-13 as a prime opportunity to highlight the urgency and importance of decisions to be made at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, with a series of events scheduled in cities around the world.

There are candlelit vigils planned for Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December, rallies marches and protests on the Saturday, and musical community events on Sunday 13 in an effort to unite the world's people if not their political and corporate leaders.

Source: The Independent UK

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This August at Beijing's Temple of Earth, an installation of 100 ice sculptures of children melted in the heat. It represented the billion lives that will be lost in Asia because of water shortages caused by climate change. The artwork — commissioned by Greenpeace to launch the TckTckTck campaign for 'bold climate action' — is one of many cultural events aiming to sway political negotiators in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December.

Source: Nature

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Groggy delegates and observers arriving today in Barcelona for the final round of negotiations prior to Copenhagen were welcomed by TckTckTck’s cacophony of 1,000 ringing alarm clocks piercing the morning air in front of the Fira Gran Via conference hall.

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350.org is a new generation of organization, and today shows how well their model fits the noisy wired world we live in. You see, 350 aren't trying to build a massive new organization, or grow their own brand. Their one and only goal is to get a number - in this case, what we all believe is the most important number in the world - into the public consciousness.

And have they ever done that today. A roar just went around the office a few minutes ago, "we're the top story on Google news!".

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SRINAGAR, India-controlled Kashmir, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Shikaras, the local name for boats, on the placid waters of Dal Lake here Saturday formed a shape of 350 as part of the campaign dedicated to environment protection and dealing with climate change.

The exercise was organized by Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) in collaboration with the Lakes and Water Ways Development here to mark Oct. 24 as the International Day for Climate Action around the globe.

Source: ChinaView

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Campaigners against global warming have drawn on an arsenal of visually startling tactics over the years, from posing nude on a Swiss glacier to scaling smokestacks at coal-fired power plants.

On Saturday, they tried something new with the goal of prodding countries to get serious about reaching an international climate accord: a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350.

Source: New York Times

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Things are moving so fast as thousands of 350 day stories, photos, and videos come in from Oceana, South Asia, Africa, India, the Middle East, and eastern Europe, we thought we'd let the co-founder and spokesperson for 350.org, Bill McKibbon, do some guest posts on our site. Here's his latest on where he is at in this very special and moving moment:

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For the next 48 hours, our blog will be taken over with stories from the world's most widespread political event in history - the Global Day of Action organized by our partner 350.org. The day is exploding already just as dawn occurs in New Zealand. The countries involved have grown to 179, bringing in actions over the last couple days from Guinea, Brunei, Turkmenistan, E.Timor, Kiribati and Micronesia.  

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