we STEPPED UP.

Yea. The rally was a lot of fun!! Today, there were Step Up rallies just like the one in NYC in all 50 or 49 states..idk...because it's National Climate Action day. Luckily, it was on the news..but I didn't see me!!..hehe.. There were a lot more people than I expected & I also bumped into my fellow Global Kids.. I didn't know they were coming but it were awesome. There were a few speakers..an evangelical leader who stressed on the environment in the name of god..then this guy spoke..he had graduated from Harvard and got some other degree in bio from Yale..yea so he did a brief speech on the science of Global Warming..there were a few other speakers who spoke on the relationship between the Global Warming's effects and the minorities. Namita from GK gave a speech also. & I saw Thitapa there & I took tonnnsssss of pictures to share on the blog & one totally rad video!!!





i was taping the video with my camera. GK, enthusiastic as always.


I was half an hour late to the rally...because I kind of got lost...I wasn't sure if I was in the right train or not..until I met some other folks on the train that were also on the way there. So I and others who weren't so sure followed them. We had stopped at South Ferry but we weren't on the first 5 cabins!! so then we got off at Rutners st and walked to Battery Park. The person I & others followed..lol.. :


















Thitapa & I


other pics:


hehhe..creatures of the sea.


Angela, Sam, Namita, I & other folks from the GK in L.I.C that came.

GK! OK!

So this lady was giving out these leaflets about vegetarianism & I totally support her.
Because:

• The meat industry causes more water pollutin in the U.S. than all other industries combined because animals raised for food prodce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population does. --86,000 ounds per second! & it pollutes our rivers & lakes more than all other industries combined.

• Nearly 80% of all agricultural land in America is used to raise animals for food.

• Meat production causes Global Warming. There is methane in the poop of animals. Methane is a greenhouse gas just like carbon dioxide, except it's 20 times worse than carbon dioxide because it traps much more heat than carbon dioxide making the earth warmer. It's not just one or two animals pooping, it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of factories of animals pooping.

• Raising animals for food requires more than one third of all raw materials and fossil fuels used in the U.S. They include--fuel to produce crops that are fed to animals, oil to run the trucks that take them to the slaughter house, electricity to freeze their carcuses & much more.

Being a vegetarian could save the planet. You can look at it as a moral issue or an environmental issue but then again everybody has to make their own decisions & their own commitments. Or you can atleast cut down on how much meat you eat.

These girls were swimming in the pit like fishes in the sea. They were doing the moves & people were clapping for them..it was pretty cool.






that just says it.


wowww..lotssss of peopleeeeeee!!

well these were all pics that i took while trying to hold on to my poster..if u want to see pics that others took u can go to: www.flickr.com/groups/seaofpeople/

or you can watch videos that people took of this rally at: www.youtube.com/group/seaofpeople
& You can always go to: www.seaofpeople.org
or www.stepitup2007.org

SEA OF PEOPLE -- RALLY UP!!!!

Any environmental freak may know this date "April 14"...yes yes yes! it's National Day of Climate Action! it's a very important day and will become even more important in the coming years.

SO HERE ARE THE DEETS FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING: Theres going to be a rally called "Sea of People"....i hope you know why, but just in case you don't...Manhattan will be under water in the next hundred or so years which is terrible but we are the cause of this horrible problem. So everyone who lovessss NYC! & lovess mother earth should deffo be there.





Join us at Battery Park on the main lawn at 12 Noon on Saturday, April 14 (this sat). DIRECTIONS: The Battery is accessible from State Street and Battery Place. It is adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (SUBWAY: 4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to Whitehall Street, 1 to South Ferry. BUS: M1, M6, M15 to South Ferry)

well..i don't do well with directions..so i'm just gonna have to ask my dad to explain. for more info go to: www.seaofpeople.org

THERE IS ONLY ONE DRESS CODE FOR THE RALLY: BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUST WEAR SOMETHING BLUE....YOUR UNDERWEAR COULD BE BLUE, YOUR SHIRT, PANTS ...ANYTHING..JUST SHOW YOUR BLUES OFFF!!!!!!!!!! BUBBLE BALLOONS ARE ENCOURAGED..U KNO TO GIVE YOU THAT SEA FEEELING..HEHE..OK..NOT FUNNY. JUST BE BLUE.



SO BE THERE!!!!