Following Fridays for Future’s noon protest at City Hall, supporters will be invited to joyfully march towards the McDougall Centre – costumes and signs are encouraged. The march will end at the plaza in front of the McDougall Centre, which supporters will symbolically occupy to hold the Government accountable for their criminal climate inaction. The symbolic occupation will be done in a family-friendly atmosphere, and will involve speeches, chants, music as well as artistic performances. The symbolic occupation will last until approximately 3pm.
XR Chants and Songs
Corporate greed we must fight
Polluting earth is not a right!
Keep that temperature down!
Keep carbon underground!
We increase our planet’s peril
Every time we pump a barrel.
No more coal
No more oil
Keep our carbon in the soil!
Say it loud, say it clear
Fossil fuels not welcome here!
No shame,
no blame!
Extinction – Rebellion
Sea levels
Are rising
And so are we
What do we want? Climate action! (Justice)
When do we want it? Now!
It’s time-To act
On scientific fact
Climate change is not a lie
Please don’t let our planet die!
System change not climate change
We are unstoppable
Another world is possible
Show me what democracy looks like
This is what democracy looks like
TO THE TUNE OF ‘FRERE JACQUES’
Cut our carbon, down to zero,
Do it now! Do it now!
Citizens’ Assembly, Citizens’ Assembly,
Tells you how, tells you how!
FIRE! (XR Edit) – Dizraeli feat. Blythe Pepino (just chanted – not sung)
Fire! (x 6)
Extinction Rebellion! (main refrain)
Burning fire is in my heart (echo)
Burning fire is in my bones (echo)
To the tune of ‘Jolene’
Go Green, Go Green, Go Green, Go Green, We’re asking you to leave don’t take our land .
Go Green, Go Green, Go Green, Go Green, Don’t think that we can’t stop you cause we can.
Now I could easily understand
how you would want to frack our land
but you don’t know what it means to us, go green.
It’s beauty is beyond compare
a common land for all to share
but you don’t know what it means to us, go green.
While CO2 is on the rise,
you’re standing there in mock surprise,
we have to keep it in the ground, go green This planet is our only home,
no planet B we’re all alone,
we have to keep it in the ground, go green.