UPDATE - 350.org - slideshow - September 24th

UPDATING for the next global rally: September 24th - come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot. Come with your neighbors and your friends, your family and your co-workers. Come be part of something huge. It's time to get moving again, even more seriously and inspired. Moving Planet is a worldwide rally - a single day - to move us away from fossil fuels. For too long, our leaders have lied, denied, delayed, Bree Boyce, Miss South Carolina, Talks About 110-Pound Weight Loss (PHOTOS, VIDEO) parlayed, compromised and caved. This can't last. http://www.moving-planet.org. All the help you need to organize your own event - and how to make it big, appropriate, focused and with all the bells and whistles.

Last Year - 350.ORG: MOST WIDESPREAD DAY OF POLITICAL ACTION IN HISTORY - 5,248 Rallies in 181 Countries to Support 350 ppm Climate Target. Thousands of photos from 5,248 rallies and protests spread across 181 countries flooded into the web servers of 350.org over the last 36 hours, marking what organizers of the global warming campaign said was “clearly the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.” http://www.youtube.com/user/350org
“In some sense, the global warming movement finally went global yesterday,” said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben. “And there wasn't a rock star or movie actor in sight-it was ordinary people rallying around a scientific data point to send the message that our leaders actually need to lead.”

The events all centered on that 350 number, which scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “Parts per million co2 sounds too obscure an idea to attract crowds on six continents, but there were thousands of people in the streets from Togo and Ethiopia and Paraguay to Seattle and London and Sydney.” Hear him speak at http://www.youtube.com/user/350org#p/c/4CED9E7CF5302616/6/CdF8wz4Jwm8

Slide Show at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/sets/72157622522487331/show/
Highlights of the day included a planet-scale game of Scrabble, with citizens in Wellington and Sydney forming giant human 3s, London and New Delhi enormous human  5s, and Quito and Copenhagen massive 0s. “The point was you had to put them together across global borders if you wanted to solve the puzzle,” said 350.org media coordinator Jamie Henn. “Just like the climate negotiations set for Copenhagen in December.
Around the shore of the Dead Sea Israeli activists made a giant 3, Palestinians a huge 5, and Jordanians a 0. In South Africa, climbers with banners dangled beneath the cable cars on Table Mountain. In Canada, thousands thronged Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
“People in almost all the nations of the earth are involved ,” said 350 honorary spokesman Desmond Tutu, the South African Anglican archbishop and Nobel Laureate.  “It's the same kind of coalition that helped make the word “apartheid” known around the world.”
350.org used a novel approache to political organizing, combining the web and SMS networks, distributing lightweight Flip video cameras, and training young people in “climate workshops” on multiple continents. On Saturday, event organizers filmed and photographed their actions and uploaded them immediately to the group's website and Flicker account, and organizers will displayed hundreds of them on the giant advertising screens of Times Square before hand-delivering shots to UN delegations on Monday.

Following the Global Wake Up Call on September 21, 350.org's International Day of Climate Action is the second key moment in the Tck Tck Tck campaign on the road to the next UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen this December. Tck Tck Tck is an unprecedented global alliance of civil society organizations, trade unions, faith groups, and millions of individuals all calling for a fair, ambitious, and binding climate change agreement. The Day of Action is a part of an effort to build the world's biggest mandate for bold climate action.

For hi-res photos and video, visit http://350.org/media

ABOUT 350.ORG

350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. Scientists have concluded that we are already above the safe zone at our current 390ppm, and that unless we are able to rapidly return to 350 ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt.