Last Saturday I went along to the UNYSA campaign conference. It was great to see so many people who were enthusiastic about taking on 'the two greatest threats facing the world': nuclear proliferation and climate change.
The Youth Council would like to give a special thanks to everyone at Leicester University United Nations Society for being such excellent hosts, and to our two speakers, Tim Kellow from UNA-UK and Kate Lyons from Global Action Plan.
Everyone who attended was given a copy of our campaigns packs: STOP THE SPREAD (on Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament) and SEAL THE DEAL (on Climate Change). Both packs are crammed full of fun campaigning ideas - from running a film night to painting campaigns T-shirts. Click here for a free download of STOP THE SPREAD and SEAL THE DEAL.
You can find out more about how the conference went on our website.
One of the best things about the conference was meeting so many people great people who shared an interest in the UN and international affairs. At the end of the day we managed to get everyone together to do a Wave (you can see the video here) to get ready the big event in London. I'll be painting a banner this week and would love to see some others!
Speaking of getting arty, I saw this instalation (top photo) in the shape of a mushroom cloud by Subodh Gupta in a magazine. It's currently in Brisbane, so not much chance of me seeing it for real, but it got me thinking about other works of art with a message. Has anyone else seen good Climate Change / Nuclear non-proliferation artwork?
Our friends at Global Action Plan told me about COP Art : the idea is that you upload any of your art with an environmental flavour and it could be shown in Copenhagen.
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