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Here we are a few days later and the reports, photos, and stories are still rolling in from the 350 day of action on October 24th. And no wonder: by the latest counts there were over 5,200 events held in over 181 countries, and Google News officially showed that 350 and the climate actions around the world were the biggest story on the planet that day.

I was on my way back to the States after being on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza for the Defending Our Pacific tour when the 24th rolled around. I happened to be in Sydney, Australia. The event there was amazing, right on the steps of the iconic Opera House. I shot some video to share:


That’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore, Sydney’s first publicly elected female Lord Mayor, you see speaking in the video.
 
The culmination of the event was a group of people spelling out “350” with blue umbrellas. I got this shot of them while they were still organizing the umbrella-holders, but you can still make out the numbers pretty well:



Here’s me doing an obligatory shot with the crowd and Opera House:



By all accounts, October 24th was a massive day of action. But the larger question is: Was it the start of, or ramping up of, an equally massive global movement — the movement we desperately need ahead of the meetings in Copenhagen? This question is already being discussed. What do you think?