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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.
Some 350.org organizers around the world could not contain their buzz for tomorrow, and have already gotten a jump on their 350 action! Most notably, today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, over 15,000 young people from 15 primary schools around the city marched in the streets to call for 350. (see photo above, or view more from Ethopia here.
The students that came could not afford banners, but came up with creative ways to make 
slogans and banners related to 350 and climate change, successfully capturing the essence of this open source campaign. The two young women who organized this massive action were inspired by a 350 climate change camp they attended a few months ago, and spent the last month visiting schools in Addis Ababa and educating children about global warming and the science behind 350 ppm.
Then in the remote Korengal Valley earlier today, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan, US troops stood down for 350. These soldiers are part of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division based out of Fort Carson, Colorado. While they posed in front of their vehicle, they no longer use it, preferring to walk everywhere when they go on key leader engagement with elders from local villages.
Also shot today on one of the environmental movement's sacred sites--the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior, our friends at Greenpeace declared "350 or we're sunk." The Rainbow Warrior was Greenpeace's first ship, it was sunk by the French Intelligence Service in 1985 in the harbor in New Zealand, because these daring enviro-warriors were protesting French nuclear testing. They continue to boldly confront the world's environmental transgressors, day after day in country after country.
Finally, friends at Oxfam in New Zealand sent a message today that New Zealand's Pacific Island
neighbors are being "hung out to dry" by climate change: they erected a massive series of washing lines in the sea. Pacific Islanders then waded out to the lines and hung 350 T-shirts, each printed with the name of a different island. A 9-year-old Samoan girl waded through knee-deep water to hang the final T-shirt--poignantly highlighting how high the stakes are, and reminding u that today's children and their children will be living the devastating effects of climate change if a fair, ambitious and binding deal is not reached in Copenhagen.
Stay tuned for more updates as they roll in from around the world. To follow even more of the action, be sure to spend some time on 350.org's website, or follow them on twitter, http://twitter.com/350.
