Join A Virtual Climate Change March For Members Of The Climate Action Movement In Paris

Another Call-Out to Canadians from Avaaz, a global online citizens organization

November 25^th, 2015 – The French government has just announced that with security still a major concern in Paris, we’ll have to cancel our massive climate march there on November 29th.

This is heart-breaking for our Paris members, who have had enough heartbreak already, but hundreds of thousands will be marching all over the globe. And in Paris, people are donating their shoes to be lined up on the march route as a symbolic representation of their marching feet.

If we all join them by sending thousands of photos of us with our shoes, Avaaz will display our images in Paris to show Parisians they are not alone, and tell the world we all stand as one. Click here to join the global virtual march now, or here to see if there is a march near you.

The biggest global climate summit of the decade is going ahead in Paris the day after the march. We have to make sure that the people speak, and leaders hear us, before they gather. Momentum is with us, but some countries like India and Saudi Arabia are making ominous moves to block global progress.

We need a massive global outcry for a 100% clean energy world, to pressure the blockers, and bolster champions like Germany not to give in. Paris was the biggest march planned, but the attacks there make it impossible.

Once again, the actions of the few threaten the welfare of us all. But not if we rise to this moment. Humanity is wildly imperfect, but if we all join together we can shine our brightest in the darkest of times.

On November 29th, everywhere, let’s shine our light.

Join the virtual march now by clicking on: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/paris_virtual_march/?cl=8964026280&v=68818

Upload an image holding up your shoes with a message of hope for our planet — Avaaz will display them in Paris

The fight to stop catastrophic climate change is not just about stopping a few more storms or a bit of sea rise. Scientists are screaming from rooftops that we are playing with uncontrollable tipping points and feedback loops in our fragile biosphere that could cause rapid, out of control climate change — the kind that could mean the end of the human journey.

How strangely fitting that our greatest moment of rallying to save ourselves, the divisive and violent forces of our past would rise to try to take this moment from us. Let’s show who we are, and rise to this moment, with all the love and hope we know we’re capable. For the sake of everything we love.

With hope and gratitude, Emma, Alice, Danny, Rewan, David and the whole Avaaz team.

Sources:

No plan B if Paris climate summit ends in failure, says EU climate chief (The Guardian) http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/06/no-plan-b-if-paris-climate-summit-ends-in-failure-says-eu-climate-chief   With Climate March Canceled, Advocates Ask For Shoes Instead (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attacks-live-updates/with-climate-march-canceled-advocates-call-for-shoes-instead/ Apple, Microsoft, Google and other US firms to commit $140bn to address climate change (International Business Times) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-microsoft-google-other-us-firms-commit-140bn-address-climate-change-1512696   People’s Climate March: the Revolution Starts Here (Ricken’s OpEd in The Guardian) http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/29/peoples-climate-march-the-revolution-starts-here

CUTLINE – Upload an image holding up your shoes with a message of hope for our planet — Avaaz will display them in Paris.

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