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From the four corners of the world came one voice. Yours.

Written by Kieran Battles. 10 November 2009

With the #pm2un twitterstorm, we took our first steps, rising up to call for Gordon Brown’s attendance at Copenhagen. And it worked.

With #Hope2Cope we increased the scale of our ambition – the leader of the free world. And alone, without the celebrity backing we enjoyed on #pm2un, we created something that was bigger, more diverse and more united than we could have imagined.

We built a greater momentum. And we built a greater movement. On a new platform upon which all our voices were amplified, the call for Obama to attend Copenhagen came from all over the world.

From Greenpeace International and its outposts in India and the UK. From Oxfam internationally and here in Great Britain. From the likes of Tweetdeck and Creative Review. From Grist, 1sky and the Huffington Post. From Avaaz Copenhagen, the Guardian, Stop Climate Chaos, the UK Youth Climate Coalition, many other organisations from the four corners of the globe, and most importantly, from you.

You could have waited, and hoped for change. But you chose to act and Be That Change. Thank you. Because, in the early hours of this morning Reuters reported that Obama will now travel to Copenhagen to attend the talks if it will help clinch a deal. We played our part yet again and we may have got #Hope2Cope, where it's badly needed.

But ultimately, whether the President attends the talks or not, it cannot detract from what we achieved with the #Hope2Cope twitterstorm.

There are no precedents for the pioneering steps we take together to find new responses to the new challenges we face. We hope you’ll continue to join us as we campaign on issues that matter to each and every one of us. For now, you can view our kaleidoscopic mobilisation on the #Hope2Cope twitterstorm page, which still continues to grow with #hope2cope tweets.

As for what’s next? Well, with the most important meeting in the history of our planet on the brink of failing our planet, failing the world’s poorest people and failing our future, the big question is how do we respond?

With a quiet, clever, revolution – a day of mass direct action. Watch this space.