Queen Street to be shut down for carnival.
Saturday, 28 October 2006, 2:26 pm
Press Release: Climaction
Queen Street to be shut down for carnival.
Queen
Street will be shut down by hundreds of people in a civil
disobedience carnival to fight climate change. Following in
the footsteps of Martin Luther King, the Climaction
Coalition is using civil disobedience to raise the issue of
climate change. The ralley will take place on 4th November
at 1pm, starting in Aotea Square.
The Climaction Coalition
demand that NZ leaders take the urgent and resolute action
we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of
global climate.
'Climate change is an issue that needs to
be tackled, government isn't doing enough,' says Gin Barker,
spokesperson for the Climaction Coalition.
'Climaction' is
a global day of action that is occuring all around the world
in many different city centres on November the 4th. They are
being organised to coincide with the United Nations Climate
Conference in Nairobi, November 6th to 17th 2006.
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