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(completely awesome photo by Jasper Carlberg and featured on the NYT homepage!)

This is the first Monday evening in several weeks that I haven't spent with a group of students and Danish climate activists in a small office in Vesterbro.  While that in itself is a relief, it's even better to know that the event we were working towards--Copenhagen's part in 350.org's Global Day of Climate Action--was a great success on Saturday.

It's not that it didn't have its kinks: rain, permit communication issues, general volunteer confusion were all a part of the package.  But it just pulled off so well with dancing, cheering, the lovely army of Mr. Green, the solar-powered bicycle DJ Karmakonen, and lots of media attention.  Best of all, the 300-or-so people that showed up to our Copenhagen event were just a small portion of the people participating worldwide at over 5200 events in 181 countries.  2000 people showed up in Auckland, NZ alone.  I don't have much to say about all of this except that it just felt . . . powerful that there was such an enthusiastic turnout.

Check out photographic evidence and Danish description here.
Fellow DIS student Blaine also created an awesome frame-by-frame video!
P.S.  If you enlarge the photo, you can see me waving and holding the 350 banner in the back on the left side.