Build a Lifeboat to save the Climate Treaty
July 5, 2001
Come
to Bonn on July 21!
Build a Lifeboat to save the Climate Treaty!
http://www.foeeurope.org/lifeboat
From
July 16 to 27, Bonn, Germany: World leaders will meet for the UN climate
negotiations. In Bonn they will decide if the Kyoto Protocol, the world's
only binding agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, will survive, or if they
will let political inaction cause climate disaster.
July 21st, Bonn, Germany:
Friends of the Earth invites thousands of people to build a giant climate
RESCUE BOAT with their messages from around the world, a symbol telling
politicians and the media: DON'T SINK THE CLIMATE TREATY!
EVERYONE'S WELCOME to participate in this colossal action - watch out
for a bus going from your area (see website) or make your own way there,
and bring a wooden plank (1m x 10cm) to add to the boat, with your personal
message to the politicians written on it! (To create a "sea of people"
around the boat, we ask people to dress in blue.)
We will all construct the Lifeboat together in the middle of Bonn (the
boat will be 30 meters long!)! We will pull the boat through Bonn to the
conference centre, where it will stay for the rest of the negotiations.
We will provide you with free overnight accommodation, cheap food and
a great party on Saturday night.
Buses are already planned from Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Estonia, France,
Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.
If you want to organise a bus yourself, please let us know. We can also
offer some financial assistance for the organisation of buses: daniel.mittler@bund.net
YOU CANNOT COME TO BONN?
But your message can! Simply send us your message -- via the web or normal
mail (or why not on a thin piece of wood?). All messages received in time
will be used to construct and decorate the Lifeboat.
For action details, info on buses, or for mailing your messages go to: