President Obama has officially arrived in Oslo and is entering the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony as I write this. Since the moment he arrived he has pretty much been inundated with messages from concerned citizens of all kinds, including a large contingent of Greenpeace activists with several direct communications for him.
We’ve been urging Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize by leading the world to a fair, ambitious, and legally binding climate treaty in Copenhagen when he attends the UN climate summit next week. Seriously, my Greenpeace Nordic colleagues and the crew of the Rainbow Warrior here in Oslo have been very busy.
Yesterday I posted a video of this “snow banner” they did out by the Oslo airport so that when President Obama’s plane landed here in Oslo, he was be greeted by a reminder that it’s “Our climate, your decision.”
This was but the first of many Greenpeace direct communications to Obama here in Oslo.
Several other messages were waiting for Obama as he traveled through Oslo: reverse graffiti made by pressure-washing stencils reading “Change the Politics, Save the Climate” on public structures:
We were also out there with signs and a physical version of that projection I posted last night, the one with Obama and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Here’s a quick video of us greeting Obama as he arrives at the Prime Minister’s office and again later as he arrives at his hotel:
In the past few days, the Greenpeace Oslo team has made plenty of other attempts to communicate our message to Obama. They launched Greenpeace’s earth-shaped hot balloon right by City Hall, where the award ceremony will take place:
Speaking of City Hall, the director of Greenpeace’s Norway office, Truls Gulowsen , was inside the ceremony itself — check out this pic of him and Obama!
The Rainbow Warrior had a couple messages for him, as you saw in my video blog from yesterday. And then of course we held the candle light vigil last night. Here’s a video I shot of that (sorry it’s kinda dark, but my video camera doesn’t have a light on it):
