Live Earth Concert 7.7.07 party news
by Maureen @ 12:33 am 3 comments »
“People all over the world - join in…ladeda…love train.” name that tune and band. Those lyrics seem appropriate for the big love music fest that’s gaining momentum by the minute. Here’s the latest press release to come across my wire:
“Grassroots climate activists to hold events from Singapore to São Paulo — global movement emerging
NEW YORK–Climate activists affiliated with Avaaz.org, a new million-member global online advocacy group, and AlGore.com, former Vice President Al Gore’s personal email list, have organized 5000 parties in 119 countries centered on the July 7 Live Earth concerts, Avaaz announced today.
In addition to watching the concerts, party-goers will take the Live Earth Pledge, committing to personal and political action to combat the climate crisis.
‘Live Earth is the best possible moment to start an unstoppable movement to end the climate crisis,’ said Ricken Patel, executive director of Avaaz.org. “Global public opinion is the new superpower, and Live Earth is giving it an historic jolt of renewable energy.”
Avaaz members have registered to host 2500 parties, including 312 in Australia, 100 in Mexico, 121 in Great Britain, 70 in South Africa, 17 in India, and 58 in Slovenia. While all the parties will involve the concerts and the Live Earth Pledge, each is unique–including:
a dance party at a club in Bosnia
children’s plays about global warming organized in Cotonu, Benin
a climate change festival at the International Peace Museum in Ohio
a Bahai prayer service in Mozambique
Event details can be accessed through an interactive map at liveearth.org. The parties will be “co-hosted” by former Vice President Al Gore, who will appear via an exclusive online video (subtitled into several world languages by Avaaz).
Avaaz members recently delivered a 375,000 petition to the chair of the G8 negotiations, calling for world leaders to begin global negotiations on climate change before the end of the year.
‘Avaaz’s work to give ordinary people around the world a powerful voice in global decision-making is inspiring, and their climate crisis organizing around the G8 Summit made a significant difference,’ said Gore. ‘Through these parties, we can reach more people than ever before and build a truly global movement to solve the climate crisis.’
‘On July 7th, thanks to Live Earth, 2 billion people will be thinking about climate change. It is a rare and priceless opportunity to build political will, and Avaaz members are making the most of it,’ said Ricken Patel of Avaaz.org.
Avaaz.org is a new, multi-issue online network that provides opportunities for citizens of every country to take concerted action on urgent global problems - climate change, poverty, the crisis in the Middle East. Avaaz.org’s mission is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions. It operates in 12 languages. Recently launched in January 2007, it now has over a million members from every nation of the world. ‘Avaaz’ means ‘voice’ in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages.”
via: alex@fenton.com (fenton communications)
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In that order. Repeat.
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I commented on the Live Earth Pledge on my site that covers global warming, Is It Getting Warmer? (www.globalwarming-factorfiction.com). You can read my full comments there but, in short, I think it is slightly foolish to make a pledge that is nearly impossible to carry out. 90% reduction of carbon footprint on a national scale is almost ludicrous and would cause extreme hardship on any nation, probably causing millions of lives globally.
If we go by the logic of Sean’s argument and others like it, we consumers are to give up.
One only has to watch their local weather and notice that the high’s of the days, have all started grouping closer to the current years we live in; eg: “2005 July forth was the hottest on record etc.”
It doesnt take a genius to realise that we are burning ancint sunlight STORED as carbon from 400 million years ago to understand there is going to be a price to pay.
[…] NBC has the lead broadcast role for prime time TV coverage, and it will be live on MSN around the clock, bringing together 2 billion people in the hopes of triggering a global movement to combat the climate crisis. […]