Today more than 2400 Climate Wake-Up Call events
are scheduled in 130 countries. The Global Wake-Up Call is a joint
effort of the TckTckTck
Campaign, named for the "tck"ing of a clock as
time runs short.
Groups involved in the campaign include Avaaz,
350.org,
Oxfam,
Greenpeace and the
producers of the film "The Age of Stupid",
which will showcase the Wake-Up Call at their global premiere.
Azaaz says, "Everywhere, from Berlin to Buenos
Aires, people will gather in peaceful, spontaneous 'flash mobs' in
public places to sound the alarms on their mobile phones, flood their
governments with phone calls urging climate action, and make a
tremendous noise.
"The images, sounds, and
videos will be stitched together for presentation to world leaders at
the United Nations tomorrow.
"The plans include an amazing diversity of events from a drumming
circle in Guatemala to a coastal ceremony in French Polynesia to a
march in Kinshasa. A gathering in Ethiopia will beat drums to sound the
alarm. Monks will chant prayers. (Check events in your area
here.)
"The press is reporting that
global climate talks are in a shambles and the UN summit on Tuesday is
the only hope to revive them. This Monday, we're flooding media and
government office phone lines worldwide with a wake up call for leaders
to act - with phone calls being made from over 2000 rallies, marches,
meetings and 'flashmobs' in public places across the planet, and by
hundreds of thousands of us from home.
"We have just 78 days left until the final UN meeting in Copenhagen,
where we'll succeed or fail to get an historic global treaty to place
binding global limits on carbon pollution, stop a climate catastrophe
and unleash a new clean and green economy. Our leaders are nowhere near
success, they're not even planning on going to Copenhagen."
The aim is to demonstrate to world leaders
that a huge and growing global movement will accept nothing less than a
fair, ambitious and binding (FAB) climate treaty strong enough to avert
catastrophic climate change.
Part of the global event is the premiere of the new climate change
film, "The Age
of Stupid." Images and videos from the Global Wake-Up Call events
will be combined into a short movie to be shown in 700 satellite-linked
cinemas at the "Age of Stupid's" global premiere. on September 21 in
the US and Sept 22 in over 40 other countries.
According to Avaaz, in recent weeks, national governments, heads of
state and political parties have been "stunned
with sudden barrages of thousands of calls. These phone calls tie up
staff and shut down phone lines - but they are never missed, and time
after time, we're finding, they work.
"14,000 calls reversed the
Brazilian President's position on a new climate protection law, 3,000
calls persuaded the German Chancellor's party to engage with climate
groups, just a few hundred calls got the attention of top advisors to
French President Sarkozy."
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