ISSUE NO. 1587
3 - 9 December 2015
MALLORCA
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
This is our fight too! GLOBAL Climate March in Palma attracts people from all over the island By Glynis German In a typically, relaxed Mallorcan style, some 2,000 people gathered in the Plaza España in Palma last Sunday with colourful banners of hearts and suns. Adults and children joined together and with painted faces marched to the Paseo del Born, accompanied by two drumming bands, whilst another 785,000 people from all over the world were marching too. Avaaz member and island resident, Alice, Jay said: “The march in Palma was part of the largest climate mobilisation in history!” Covering the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris, Alice added: “Our voices shook the planet and in Paris, inside the talks, governments are still hearing our call.” Images and footage of the marches, including Mallorca’s, were shown to delegates as they entered the negotiations. Palma resident Felicity Butler Davis was also at the Palma march with her family. “I feel very strongly about the abuse of the planet and I believe the talks in Paris will
have a big influence on how fast change takes place from a government level,” she remarked. However, if Spain’s last reform of the electricity sector is anything to go by, one can only imagine that the road ahead might be rocky.
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