Christian Aid stages mass visual trespass at Parliament (projecting climate messages onto Palace)

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christian.aid.stages.mass.visual.trespass.at.parliament/24300.htm

Christian Aid stages mass visual trespass at Parliament

Christian Aid last night staged a mass visual trespass at Parliament to demand climate justice at the forthcoming UN summit in Copenhagen.

Posted: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10:06 (BST)



Images of Christian Aid supporters, including actress Greta Scacchi, calling on the international community to agree a fair climate deal at Copenhagen were beamed onto the Palace of Westminster.

There were also messages urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama to lead the fight for climate justice at the summit.

Christian Aid’s Mass Visual Trespass campaign enables climate justice campaigners to demonstrate without leaving home. Members of the public have shown their support by uploading photographs of themselves, and their climate messages, onto the Christian Aid website. www.christianaid.org.uk/trespass

Their images are then beamed onto buildings as a ‘visual trespass’. The first such event was held at the E.ON power plant in Ironbridge, East Shropshire in August. More are planned around the country in the run up to the Copenhagen talks.

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Video here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/oct/02/christian-aid-climate-justice

[xchrom]

1. that's very cool. -- great inventive way to protest. nt

[KansDem]

2. I like it! Scrawl a message on a wall--get shot down by police...

Project a message on a wall and officials stand around and scratch their heads.

And you get your message in the public eye!

[xchrom]

3. and good media attention. nt