350 Updates

Happy Early Birthday, Mandela!

May Boeve
Posted by May Boeve - 07/16/08, 1:19pm

In preparation for Nelson Mandela's July 18 birthday, our friends at Circle Up Now made this impressive piece of aerial art today. The photo was taken followed by a workshop addressing the global hunger crisis, and took place in Johannesburg.

To see more of the important work undertaken by our partners, click here.

Circle Up Now is an exciting initiative integrating art and human rights activism. This summer, utilizing the unique experience of human aerial artwork, where thousands of people come together to form an image that can only be seen and photographed from the sky, two teams will produce a series of live global events and chronicle the experience to benefit the human rights movement and the organizations that fight for it on a daily basis.

 
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Introducing the 350 Team: Shabani Ely Katembo

Anonymous
Posted by Anonymous - 07/16/08, 7:14am

Is Climate Change somebody else's problem?

Before getting involved with 350.org, I had never thought about working on climate change. A few years ago when I was a student in Kinshasa, Congo, as millions of young Africans, I thought the environment was only a rich country issue. Like any young African who grew up in a family who lived on less than a dollar a day, my dream was to be airline pilot, and astronaut or a banker, ignoring the effects that our current ways of life have on the climate.

Check out my video introduction (it's in French, but click here for a subtitled version)

 
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Grassroots Action in Visby, Sweden

Jeremy Osborn
Posted by Jeremy Osborn - 07/15/08, 8:35am

This blog comes to us courtesy of Jonas Paulsson through the website of Klimax, a Swedish climate direct action group. A group of his friends appeared at a speech by the Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, brandishing 350PPM banners and calling attention to the need for political leadership on climate. Congrats to the Klimax activists on their action, and for holding Sweden's leaders accountable to scientific necessity for bolder climate targets!

*Note: This post is in Swedish. If you'd like to read the full blog in English, click here to use Google Translate to translate the original Klimax page.

Agera nu för 350 ppm!

Idag, fredag, under Fredrik Reinfeldts tal i Almedalen vecklade aktivister från Klimax och Planka.nu ut banderoller med budskapet “350 ppm”... Continue reading in Swedish

 
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