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London Climate Change rally to pressure UN Climate talks at Durban

The rally coincides with the UN Climate Talks in Durban. The group claims that 7% of the world's population produce 50% of the world's...

by B Sharma in United Kingdom on 03/12/2011

23 year old Anna Keenan from Australia began fasting on November 6, 2009, at the UN summit in Barcelona, Spain. She have lost 15 kilograms (33 lbs), and wont stop before a fair climate deal is made at COP15 - Climate Change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anna represents Climate Justice Fast, who try other ways to force politicians make the right decisions.

'Business-as-usual is leading us all to catastrophe, I now feel that activism-as-usual is clearly not forcing politics to change fast enough,' says Anna on her site, and contiues:

'We have now reached the time when a new and higher form of activism is needed, hence my participation in Climate Justice Fast! I intend for this moral, principled action to give politics a major wake-up call - we can’t ignore the science any longer.'

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Fasting for a fair climate deal

23 year old Anna Keenan from Australia began fasting on November 6, 2009, at the UN summit in Barcelona, Spain. She have lost 15 kilograms (33 lbs),...

by Simon Wedege Petersen in Denmark on 10/12/2009

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