Demonstration, dying on the Place du Capitole… Weekend of mobilization for the climate in Toulouse
By Lucie Fraisse
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“The climate emergency will not wait five more years”. A few weeks before the presidential election and while the last part of the 6and IPCC report, alarming, has just been published, several respondent associations and organizations to demonstrate this Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Toulouse.
“Look up”, in reference to the film with Leonardo di Caprio
An event that is part of a national movement: several “Look up” climate marches will be organized this Saturday throughout France. The name of the mobilization was chosen with care, in reference to the film Do not lookbroadcast on netflixwith Leonardo diCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
A film in which scientists try to warn, in vain, about the arrival of a comet which will destroy the Earth.
“The climate must be at the heart of the debate”
“This demonstration is part of the electoral sequence that we are experiencing, explains Régine Lange for the association Alternative, one of the collectives mobilized in Toulouse. There is minimal treatment of the climate issue in this presidential campaign, when it should be a subject at the heart of the debate. »
The associations and collective organizers of the Saturday demonstration
Several organizers are mobilized behind the organization of this event on Saturday March 12, 2022. “For several years, we have had cooperation between associations and collectives which naturally takes shape during the organization of events like this”, explains Régine Lange.
Here are the organizing members of Saturday’s demonstration: Extinction rebellion; Zero waste Toulouse; ANV-COP21; Youth for Climate; Friends of the Midi-Pyrénées Earth; Alternatiba Toulouse; Voluntary GMO Reapers; France Nature environment Midi-Pyrenees; Greenpeace Toulouse; FSU 31; Human Rights League; Green axis-La Ramée; Pleasure for the climate and Attac.
The Consult climate march will leave, this Saturday, March 12, from the top of the Jean-Jaurès alleys to join the war memorial then the Jules-Guesde alleys. Sunday March 13, 2022, a “die in” is organized on Capitol Squareat 14 hours.
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