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// October 7th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // In The News, Media, Word on The Hill
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Guelph Student Aims to ‘Fill the Hill’ on Climate Action Day
October 07, 2009 – News Release
A University of Guelph student is spearheading a national initiative to get thousands of people to gather on Parliament Hill on Oct. 24 to push for action on climate change.
Climate Day: Fill the Hill will be the largest event to take place in Canada as part of the International Day of Climate Action, said organizer Gracen Johnson. The 20-year-old environmental advocate and U of G international development student is urging people from all backgrounds and all parts of the country to carpool, charter buses, take trains or use any other form of sustainable transportation to Ottawa and help make history.
“By coming together on Oct. 24, Canadians from all walks of life can make their voices heard on the most important issue facing our planet,” said Johnson, whose activism was inspired by hearing David Suzuki say that the only way to affect legislative action on climate change is to fill Parliament Hill with concerned citizens.
“It’s not intended to be an angry finger-wag at the government,” she said. “We just want to show our politicians that Canadians not only support them in making some difficult and brave choices in order to do what’s right, but we also insist they do what’s right, rather than what’s easy or politically expedient.” (more…)
Gracen Johnson avoided the label ‘activist’ for most of her young life. Now, at 20, the University of Guelph student and self-described environmental advocate finds herself at the helm of Canada’s largest citizens’ mobilization effort on climate change.
