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updated 1st December 05
by 4ecotips.com
On foot or by bike make your
presence felt
The biggest ever UK demonstration
over global warming takes to the streets
of London on Saturday (3 December)
organised by the Campaign Against
Climate Change as part of the International
Day of Climate Protest. It coincides
with the half way mark of the UN Climate
Change talks in Montreal (28 November
- 9 December).
So come along and help ceate a global
wave of protest to press for the urgent
action we need to prevent the catastrophic
destabilisation of the global climate.
On the same day, there will also be
demonstrations in Edinburgh and Belfast.
The worldwide demonstrations will
demand that the US and Australia ratify
Kyoto and that the world moves as
rapidly as possible to an effective
and equitable climate treaty.
In London you can make your protest
either on foot or you can take your
bike. If you're on foot you need to
assemble in Lincoln's Inn Fields (Holborn
tube) at noon.
If you're going by bike, everyone
in the saddle is meeting at the Thames
Barrier on the south side of the river
at 9.00am. Cyclists will then join
the walkers at noon to proceed via
Parliament Square and Downing Street
to the American Embassy in Grosvenor
Square where there will be speeches
by leading environmentalists..
These will include George Monbiot,
Michael Meacher MP (Labour Environment
Minister, 1997-2003), Norman Baker
MP (Lib Dem Shadow Environment Secretary)
Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party),
Fazlun Khalid, director, the Islamic
Foundation for Ecology and the Environmental
Sciences, Ruth Jarman from Christian
Ecology Link, Nick Rau, Climate Campaigner
at Friends of the Earth and Peter
Bunyard, Science Editor for the Ecologist.
The march will go via Kingsway, the
ExxonMobil Offices and the Australian
Embassy on Aldwych, via Arundel street
to the Embankment and along that to
Westminster Bridge Road, then via
Parliament Square, and Whitehall (past
Downing Street) to Trafalgar Square,
then Cockspur street, Lower Regents
Street, Piccadilly Circus, Piccadilly,
Berkley Street, Berkley Square, Davies
Street to Grosvenor Square and the
US embassy.
For both walkers and cyclists, the
demonstration will finish around 4.00 pm.
The route for cyclists is about eight
miles long and will take two hours.
Starting from the Thames Barrier it
will along the river path to Anchor
and Hope Lane, turn left to roundabout,
along Bugsby Way into Gallions Road,
turn right into Woolwich Road, then
Trafalgar Road, Romney Road, Nelson
Road, to Greenwich Church Street.
If joining the ride at Greenwich,
be by the phone boxes by the Church
of St Alphege in Greenwich Church
Street at 10.30am. Turn left into
Creek Road, Evelyn Street, Bestwood
Street, Bush Road, Rotherhithe New
Road, bear right into Rotherhithe
Old Road, Lower Road, Jamaica Road,
Tooley Street, Duke Street Hill, right
onto London Bridge. If joining the
ride at London Bridge, 'Number 2'
London Bridge (south side of the bridge)
might be a good place to join. The
ride should arrive at 11.30am approx.
Then King William St, Cannon Street,
Queen Victoria Street, Friday Street,
St Paul's Churchyard, Ludgate Hill,
Fleet Street, Chancery Lane, Carey
Street and Serle Street to Lincoln's
Inn Fields, 12.15 approx.
For more information visit the Campaign
Against Climate Change website or
call 0207 549 0395 or 07903 316331
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