October 24th — We Made Ourselves heard!
Great photos here!
As John Riley writes: the great success of this event “was very much down to the hard work of Keith Baker & Cindy Courtillier. Despite the drizzly rain it was really uplifting day”. Led by John and the Samba Band from Biggar and elsewhere, about 150 of us marched down the Royal Mile from the City Chambers to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, where Keith organised us all into a human-made 350 sign, gave a great talk (despite the wind and rain) about why we are doing this — and much press coverage was made. See, for example, the BBC report here, and the STV report here.
It was a great event — well done Keith, Cindy and John for organising, and well done everyone else who came and played their part in getting this message out there! It’s a great idea for future occasions to make sure events are as brief, fun, uplifting, and welcoming for families as this one was! This event tied in with over 4,500 actions around the globe on the same day, including a parallel drumming event in Barcelona.
Report on Sept 10th Climate Active Party in Parliament!
People from communities actively seeking to reduce their carbon emissions gathered in Parliament on September 10th — and it was Full house at the climate active party! Have a look at the blog section of this site to read a few personal reflections on the day…
Thank you to all who came, sorry to all those we had no room to accomodate, and thanks to each MSP, Minister, and those from other backgrounds who came too — it was brilliant. More on the event (including postings of the presentations) — and more on the course of action we will be taking that flows from this event — will be posted here very soon. Meanwhile, have a look at the blog section to read a few personal reflections on the day…
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1 Vital Spark // Oct 24, 2009 at 1:09 pm
For those of us living outside of Edinburgh, outwith an area holding such an event and with dogs etc to be tended, a later march would have ensured a greater turn out. I would dearly have loved to take part but, as a non driver (which way I intend staying) with a disabilty and old beasties in my care, I could not possibly get through to Edinburgh for midday.
Weather would not have deterred me nor any of my friends, who would have happily joined in but for work from which they cannot be freed until, at least, midday.
A reasonably early (need to be dark though) evening march with torches would have been ideal for we in Fife.
Unfortunately, because my pc rebelled to striking point with need for it to be rebuilt, I didn’t learn of this event until too late to request such a plan. However, maybe these points could be taken into consideration when the next event is organised.
With warm regards and a big thank you for doing your bit for us all.
Meg
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