Global Climate Action Day March for COP26

The march in Oxford was part of a worldwide march to demand Climate Action. It was timed to be midway through COP26. The most moving thing about the march was the fact that so many different factions and types of people marched together. We marched for each other and for the earth and that was an amazing thing. Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, The Green Party, the Labour Party, Oxfordshire COP26 Alliance, Oxford Trades Council, Oxford Friends of the Earth, BBOWT, Unison and Oxford Youth Strike and many others including nature movements such as Rewilding Britain and anti racism groups such as Stand up to Racism. People of all races: Old people, young people and even animals making up 3,000 plus people walked from the Cowley Road to Broad Street in Oxford where there was a rally with speakers including George Monbiot, MPs Anneliese Dodds and Layla Moran, youth climate activists and councillor leaders and scientists. Chants and banners were mainly concerned with leaving fossil fuels in the ground, systemic change being the way forward and the importance of the natural world. Having felt a lot of shame about being a human being who has contributed to Climate change, I felt a surge of pride to be part of a movement to push for real change in the way we address what is an existential crisis for all of us.