November 20, 2008 10:36 by
anneb
National Climate March
Saturday December 6th 2008
We are invited to March on Parliament to demand that the government acts on climate now! Do Mole Valley residents who want to take part wish to travel up and march together? If you do get in touch with me at anne.brewer@phonecoop.coop
Part of a Global Day of Action - see www.globalclimatecampaign.org - last year 70+ countries were involved !
Revised detail: The march will now start at Grosvenor Square, (5 minutes from Speakers Corner, Hyde Park
and Bond Street and Marrble Arch Tube stations)
assemble 12 noon - and goes to Parliament Square .
It marks the Saturday midway through the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Poland and the demands on the UK government are made in solidarity with the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities that will suffer worst and most immediately from climate change caused overwhelmingly by the rich long-industrialised countries.
Speakers will include Nick Clegg (leader Liberal Democrat Party), Caroline Lucas (leader, Green party), Michael Meacher (ex-Environment Minister) and George Monbiot (Honorary President, Campaign against Climate Change).
The march will be preceded by a climate protest bike ride starting from Lincoln's Inn Fields at 10.30 am joining up with the National Climate March at Grosvenor Square.
For full details see http://www.campaigncc.org/
Christian ecology Link is organising a Climate Change Service at Hinde Street Methodist Church (19 Thayer Street W1U 2Q) at 11.30 am - worshippers will join the march afterwards at Grosvenor Square. Doors of the church will be open from 10am and coffee served from 10.30am.
And after the march—an invitation from Westminster Quakers: Westminster FMH, 52 St Martin's Lane, just north of Trafalgar Square, will be open for tea, coffee, biscuits, etc., from 2.45 to about 5 p.m. after the Climate Change march.