Largest Eco-Protest in History: Global Youth Climate Movement

Power Shift: Global Youth Climate Movement Comes of Age

Obama's first big test on climate change - the largest eco protest in history


[Obama's] biggest test yet will be how to deal with an event that will represent the largest mass civil disobedience on climate change the world has ever seen. For the last eight months, organisers have been bringing together over 70 conservation, public health, labour, social justice and faith-based organisations along with figureheads of the climate movement like Bill McKibben and Dr James Hansen.

On 2 March, over 10,000 people will join a sit-in at the coal-power plant that literally powers the congressional building in Washington DC. For many, it is a national symbol for the stranglehold that dirty energy sources have over their communities, their climate and their future. Just this week, Hansen released a public broadcast explaining why he will be taking part.

February 20, 2009

for complete article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/feb/20/coal-protest-power-shift


A Call to Action on Global Warming from Dr. James Hansen

video: http://vimeo.com/3268481