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The View from Glasgow: Pickets, Protests and People Power
While world leaders fail to agree on meaningful change at COP26, the city of Glasgow has become a hub of protests and strikes, reports John McGrath.
While world leaders fail to agree on meaningful change at COP26, the city of Glasgow has become a hub of protests and strikes, reports John McGrath.
An alliance of peace groups – including the Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW), Pax Christi and Christian CND – held a public meeting at the Buchanan Steps in Central Glasgow pushing for military pollution to feature in climate agreements.
COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis.
Once again, they’re standing beside each other in a long row. With ties around their necks, excited but serious expressions on their faces and brows photogenically wrinkled with concern, they’re ready to save the world from the fiery furnace.
This article was published with support from Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights and the Gumshoe Group.
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So here we are again at another COP (Conference of the Parties). Well, some of us are in Glasgow, Scotland at the COP itself, and some of us, this writer included, are sitting at a distance, trying to feel hopeful.
Includes Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator; Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard; Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP; David Swanson, World BEYOND War.