For Obama’s Birthday: A Ticket to Copenhagen

Guest blogger Becca Green from the Avaaz Action Factory

For his 48th birthday today, President Obama received a giant ticket to Copenhagen from Avaaz’s DC Action Factory. In a street party outside his house – complete with party hats, noisemakers, and music – cardboard cut-out Obama received his birthday gift with a smile. He even blew out all the candles on his special Copenhagen-themed birthday danishes in one breath! (He wished for a strong and binding global climate treaty.)
This December, the President will use his thoughtful birthday present to fly to the UN global climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark. There, he will once again define the United States as a world leader and safeguard this earth for his daughters, Sasha and Malia, their generation, and those to come. And he’ll eat more danishes.

At least, that’s what we hope he’ll do. The Copenhagen negotiations are the world’s chance to work together to cut carbon and solve global warming. If America is to be a true world leader, Obama must show up with bells on. His cardboard cut-out was optimistic today, stating that he would accompany his negotiating team, including Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing, to the negotiations this December. But we at the DC Action Factory would like to hear the real Obama commit to attending the treaty talks.

Happy Birthday Obama! Obama to Copenhagen!

Update: This action seems to be getting some attention in unlikely places. Obama Foodorama wrote about the event, noting that food’s been used by activists around Obama before at the G8. The photos that AP and Reuters agencies took have made their way around the Huffington Post, a blog about Kosher diet tips, as well as a number of news agencie’s ‘daily photo’s slideshows.

Also, our friends at Solveclimate.com wrote a longer feature piece on who the Action Factory is and what we’ve been up. Definitely worth a read.

About Morgan

Morgan is a wandering climate activist, a job well suited to the editorial board of this site. He organized at Williams College until his aprubt and unfortunate graduation in 2008. There, he was a Chinese major, student body co-president and one of the leaders of Thursday Night Group, the campus climate action group. Since graduating, in no particular order, Morgan has worked on a community energy efficiency campaign in western Mass, co-directed NH SPROG for the SSC and worked on Power Vote in Cleveland. He spent traveled in China, networking with youth climate activists and learning about the solar hot water business. He worked on Long Island for a solar and wind company doing home evaluations and sales. And he spent the better part of a year in DC at the Avaaz Action Factory causing trouble for a good cause.

3 Responses to “For Obama’s Birthday: A Ticket to Copenhagen”

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1 Richard Graves Aug 5th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

This is really great work. Keep it up!
-Richard
2 tuttle tuttle Aug 5th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

yeah that’s gonna wake the world up and save us all from ecocide, the illegalization of indigenous lifestyles, and environmental racism
3 marcy Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Relax negative Nancy,
It would be really great if he would go to the UN Global Climate Treaty Negotiations and make a bold move and Yes, it could create a significant change. If anything its a push in the right direction.
But, the article is confusing. Is he going or not?