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Are you a likely woman? >hi dad, could you send this on to likely women please? >ta xxx > >Climate Rush >www.climaterush.co.uk >13th October >Parliament 5.30pm > >To mark 100 years on from the suffragettes rushing parliament we >want 100 women to lobby their MP's for 100% cuts in emissions! > >Dress up as a suffragette and get down to parliament with your >banners, sashes and democratic demands. There is a protest outside >to demand action on climate change, no new coal, no airport >expansion and policies in line with latest science, but we also >wanted something more direct. > >Join us in lobbying your MP. Its their job to represent you so tell >them as their constituent you are concerned that the governments >polices are not reflecting the seriousness of the climate science. >Its your democratic right, and its their job to listen. > >Climate change is the most serious problem we face today, in our >local communities and as a planet. It affects us all, now. It >requires immediate action. we know what to do, we have the >technology, we have the solutions, the only thing missing is the >political will to implement them. > >It was politically unacceptable for women to have the vote. Now it >seems unacceptable to politicians to talk about creating a >zero-carbon society - but addressing climate change will require the >same courage and commitment it took to gain women our basic rights. >100% emissions cuts in the UK by 2030 would make us world leaders in >meeting the climate challenge - but to achieve that means no new >coal, an end to airport expansion, and deeds not words from the Government. > >In 100 years time, we will have solved the climate crisis. People >will look back and see who made that happen. Be one of them.