Dec 12 Vigil
Vigil For a Real Deal to Stop Climate Change
6:00 pm Saturday December 12
Where: Human Rights Monument on Elgin St. & Lisgar
Schedule
6:00 pm
- Updates on Copenhagen, the Climate Justice Fast hunger strike, and other events
- Climate Carolling
6:20 pm
-We will light the candles and have our moment of silence and then walk in single file towards to Parliament. From there we will distribute candy canes (that will have a message about COP attached to it).
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
– General caroling/canvassing and distributing of the candy canes, all Elves are encouraged to stay with a group of people to lead and provide candy canes to other helpers as well as lead everyone back to Polaris when the group is ready and chilly! This portion of the night will need to play out as the night goes on, we cannot fully anticipate the crowd, the cold or the security at the hill.
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Context:
On December 12, in the middle of the Copenhagen conference, people will be gathering at important places all over the world for candlelight vigils, in solemn solidarity with the citizens of those nations who will be first to face the challenge to their survival posed by climate change. Eventually all of us will be hard-pressed by rising seas, spreading drought, and temperatures too hot for growing food. But right now -- this year, this decade -- there are countries being pressed to the brink. They're at the fight for real change in Copenhagen. As Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed said in November at summit for heads of state of the modest vulnerable nations:
"We will not sign a global suicide pact, in Copenhagen or anywhere." Instead, he and the others called for a "survival pact," for commitments by the developed world to cut emissions enough to get the atmospheric concentration of co2 back to 350. They know the simple, mathmatical truth of global warming: 350=Survival.
For more information about vigils taking place internationally, see http://www.350.org/vigil
