Report from Nov. 30 - Kids Climate Justice Parade, San Francisco
Kids and parents marched today in San Francisco with the Mobilization
for Climate Justice, carrying brooms and a banner reading "U.S.
Clean-Up Your Climate Mess." The kids parade separated from the rest
of the march before reaching the action at Bank of America, and played
"Let's make a mess." Kids poured dirt on a giant map of the world, 1
cup for each ton of per capita CO2 emissions - 0.1 for Ethiopia, 1.2
for India, 4.7 for China and 20 for the U.S.! Then they cleaned it up.
The crowd loved it, the kids had a lot of fun, the marching band
played beautiful music. Afterwards parents and kids took messages the
kids had written on cleaning rags to Senator Feinstein's office and
met with a representative in the lobby. The representative was very
nice, graciously accepting a bucket full of rags, spoke to us at
length about what we were doing, and encouraged us to come back and
make an appointment to tell them more about our concerns. All in all a
great day.
December 1st, 2009
