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Ahead of Paris Climate Talks, Lead-In with Oakland March
Photos by Ellyn O'Toole. Text by Ruth Robertson.
Set to start at the end of this month, the 2015 Paris Climate Conference will, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate. Although the conference will still happen, French authorities have banned big public gatherings in the city since the attacks of November 13. Climate group 350.org announced that, "although activists in Paris are working hard to figure out alternatives, there won’t be a French repeat of last year’s mammoth New York procession".
In Oakland, California in a lead-up to the climate talks, activists marched from Lake Merritt to Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza. Rallies were held at both ends of the march with speakers and musical performers. Radical marching bands were a big part of this well-attended event.
Without a Paris agreement, scientists estimate that global warming will result in catastrophic and irreversible changes to the weather, including droughts, floods, heatwaves, fiercer storms and sea level rises.
In Oakland, California in a lead-up to the climate talks, activists marched from Lake Merritt to Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza. Rallies were held at both ends of the march with speakers and musical performers. Radical marching bands were a big part of this well-attended event.
Without a Paris agreement, scientists estimate that global warming will result in catastrophic and irreversible changes to the weather, including droughts, floods, heatwaves, fiercer storms and sea level rises.
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