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Press Release: C-Day Flashmob September 21
// September 17th, 2009 // Media, Press, Word on The Hill
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2009
Toronto, ON – C-Day: Fill the Hill will stage a flash mob at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square at 12:18pm on September 21 to urge world leaders to commit to science-based targets on greenhouse gas emissions.
C-Day demonstrators will sound the alarm on their mobile phones and other noise makers, record the flash rally and send the images to the UN where world leaders are currently negotiating a new treaty on climate change leading up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen held December 7th to 18th.
The flash mob will be one of 15 similar events in public locations throughout Toronto on Sept. 21, and among more than 1000 Global Climate Wake-Up Calls scheduled to take place in 88 countries, organized through AVAAZ and Oxfam.
“Urgent negotiations on a global deal to stop a climate catastrophe are in shambles,” says Paul Hilder of AVAAZ. “Our leaders just aren’t making the hard choices needed. They’re feeling more pressure from oil and coal companies than they are from ordinary people concerned about reversing the climate crisis and unleashing a new green economy. Sept. 21st is the moment to change all that.”
AVAAZ is a partner of C-Day: Fill the Hill (www.climateday.ca), a citizen mobilization collective which calls thousands of Canadians to march on Parliament Hill on October 24 to demand that Canada commit to climate justice and science-based targets on greenhouse gas emissions. The federal government’s position on GHG emission targets, at 20 percent below 2006 levels by 2020 and 60 to 70 percent by 2050, falls short of targets that scientists say will avert runaway global warming.
“Our flash mob on September 21st is priming the pumps for our mass mobilization on Parliament Hill on October 24th,” says C-Day founder Gracen Johnson. “The September 21st events are critical. Citizens around the globe are uniting to send a clear message to world leaders. We need a deal that respects the science on climate change. We need to work together to transition to a green economy.”
Media Contact:
Hilary Best
416-424-1259
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