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While hundreds of thousands sands took to the streets in cities across Canada to warn that climate change threatens civilization and life on Earth.
Demonstrations took place in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Calgary. In Toronto over 3000 walked from City Hall through the downtown core. Hundreds travelled from Toronto by bus, train, and car to participate in the huge New York march. Around the world, from Lon don to Melbourne to Mexico City to Bogota to Berlin people paraded and rallied.
The protests were spurred by re ports that the world had pumped an estimated 36.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil, and gas. That is 706 metric tons or 2.3 per cent more than in the previous year, according to the Global Car bon Project international team that tracks and calculates global emis sions annually. The results were published in peer-reviewed jour nals Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change in September.
The leading carbon polluters are China, the United States, and India. But Canada’s tar sands industry in northern Alberta is one of the big gest single contributors to the cli mate-change malaise.
The three largest parties in Parlia ment, the governing Conservatives, the Official Opposition labourbased New Democratic Party, and the Liberal Party all favour the con struction of new pipelines to pump more bitumen-laced oil to thirsty markets—at the expense of nature, and to fuel private profit. n BY JEFF MACKLER AND MICHAEL SCHREIBER ORDER THIS TIMELY PAMPHLET FROM SOCIALIST ACTION BOOKS:
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(Left) Saigon residents welcome troops of the North Vietnamese People’s Army and the National Liberation Front as they enter the city.
ing the airport. We see clips of Martin stubbornly boarding a vehicle to inspect the situation with his own eyes. He finally relented. So, it was down to Op tion 4: Evacuate by helicopter.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ford re luctantly gave the go-ahead—everyone out in 24 hours. To throw off the invading army, the code for the order was, “105 degrees and rising,” weirdly backed by a broadcast of Bing Crosby’s recording of “White Christmas.” Kennedy includes a surreal clip of people going about the streets, and readying for evacuation as Crosby’s soothing warble is heard on every radio and PA system in Saigon. Ten thousand people rushed the embassy, gathering on the roof tops of American-occupied homes and office build ings, waiting for helicopters (hence the iconic photo of hundreds of people climbing a ladder to a roof, then into a helicopter).
All official documents were shredded; and up to one million dollars in U.S. currency was burned to avoid its going to the invaders and/or their collabo rators. Helicopters deposited people on ships; one Vietnamese pilot landed a huge Chinook in his front yard and loaded on his family. In a later, amazing scene, we are shown a clip of his Chinook hovering above the deck of a ship with him and his family on board, much too big to land. He hovers low and we see his wife toss their infant daughter from the cop ter to the deck, where she’s caught by a crewman.
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