tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

Event Description

The world is sleepwalking into a crisis of epic and historical proportions. On September 21st, over 2,600 events in 134 countries organized by TckTckTck, Avaaz, and other partners and individuals like you woke up our leaders and let them know the world is ready for a bold climate deal.

The Global Wake Up Call rang in cities, towns and villages around the world, flooded the phone lines of leaders, hit hundreds of media sources around the world, and gave us all hope that we can make a difference.

This was an incredible event that kicked off our climate campaign. Here's how you can learn more what happened:

• watch our inspiring video on how we changed the world
• see some of the amazing photos (out of 10,000) that you submitted live from around the world
• read about some of the global media coverage the event garnered:
• read about the strong online buzz on how we hit the media and bloggers.

We were blown away by how in just three weeks, we went from an idea of doing this global day, to Avaaz asking their 3.6 M global members if they wanted to do it (98% said yes), and three weeks later we had over 2,600 events in over one hundred and twenty countries.

People came out and make noise with pots and pans in Dehli, Horns in Nepal, Alarm clocks in London, and cell phones in New York. The unity of the actions around the world show that civil society is united in one demand, for a fair, ambitious, and binding deal in Copenhagen this fall. Let us hope that world leaders got the call and take an example from this show of global solidarity.

Next step, now that we're awake, let's not push the snooze button: it's up to us to make the 350.org Global Day of Action on Oct 24 even bigger around the world! Stay tuned for more.

If you are looking for the action kit that helped organize people for Sep 21, it can be found here.