Protest Trump's Inauguration
On 20 January, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the USA. There is no question that this is a disaster for our climate. His political appointments have made this clear, with a cabinet stuffed with climate change deniers and fossil fuel cronies including the CEO of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.
There are huge links between Trump's climate denial and his racism. Climate failure will hit the poorest and most vulnerable around the world first and most dangerously. Even in the US, we've seen with Hurricane Katrina, at Standing Rock and in the Flint water crisis how people of colour and indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by climate change and are seen as 'sacrifice zones' for the fossil fuel industry and other environmental pollution.
Activists in the US have called protests for the day of his inauguration. Join us around the country to stand in solidarity with them. There will be traditional protests and also banner drops from bridges demonstrating solidarity and rejection both of Trump and fascism.
Click here to download our Trump: Climate Disaster poster, for use on placards.
Do check out banner drops on the Bridges Not Walls website as well as the events below - more are being added!
London
Campaign against Climate Change are organising a climate bloc at the mass rally outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London from 5pm.
Sign up to the climate bloc on Facebook
There will also be protests in Trafalgar Square.
In the morning of 20th January there will be 'Bridges Not Walls' banner drops on ten bridges across the Thames, from Tower Bridge to Vauxhall. Find out more about how to get involved.
Make things!
There are banner-making sessions for Bridges Not Walls this weekend (14-15 Jan) and for the climate bloc at the US embassy on Thursday 19th.
Aberdeen
Bridges Not Walls banner drop, 3.30-5
Barnsley
11am (Sat 21 Jan) May Day Green, Barnsley Precinct
Birmingham
Bradford
Banner drop, City Park, 8:30am-10am
Brighton
(Greenway) Banner drop, 33 New England Rd, 7:30am-12pm
(Trafalgar Street) Banner drop, Brighton Railway Station, 7am-9am
Bristol
Midday banner drop, Bristol Bridge
Cambridge
Banner drop, 3pm, Elizabeth Way Bridge
Cardiff
Chester
Banner drop, 4pm St Martin's Gate
Chesterfield
Coventry
Derby
Dundee
Edinburgh
Evening rally, Wellington Statue
Exeter
Glasgow
Evening rally, Donald Dewar statue
Huddersfield
Morning 'bridge' action in Market Place
Protest from 4.30pm, Market Place
Lancaster
Banner drop, 1-2pm Lune Millennium Bridge
Leeds
Midday protest, University of Leeds
Leicester
Evening protest, Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower
Liverpool
Protest from 4.30pm, Lime Street station
Luton
Banner drop, 158 Old Bedford Rd, 11:30am
Manchester
Evening rally, St Peter's Square
Newcastle
Evening rally, Grey's Monument
Nottingham
Evening rally, Nottingham Speakers Corner
Norwich
Early evening rally, City Hall
Oxford
Banner drop, Bridge of Sighs, 8:30am
Celebration of diverse communities, Radcliffe Square, 1pm
Portsmouth
Reading
University of Reading banner drop, 1-2pm
Rally at Queen Victoria Statue 6-7pm
Rotherham
Banner drop, Bridge Street, 11am
Sheffield
Evening rally, Sheffield Town Hall
Southampton
Rally from 4pm, Southampton Civic Centre
Swansea
Taunton
Banner drop, 2 The Bridge, 1:30pm-2:30pm
York
Protest from 4.30pm, St Helen's Square
Potential Ouse Bridge banner drop - email gabeystewart1@hotmail.com