David Bowie and Freddy Mercury sure got it right when they sang pressure: pushing down on me, pressing down on you, no man ask for, under pressure….

Pressure has a way of making you stand up. Much like an oncoming wave at a concert or sporting event- you don’t want to be the one that stays sitting.

Especially if you’re holding one of those huge foam hands.

Well, time to put those foam hands to use and wave’em in the air like you can save it- the air that is.  The Copenhagen Climate Summit is nearing its end. There is a huge online petition going around at Avaaz.org It is petitioning world leaders for a “real deal now” on climate change. I may have been the 11 157 418th person to sign it but you can be the 12 000 000th. They are looking to hit 15 million signatures in the hopes that in the next 24 hours or so the petition will affect real change.

photo copied from Global Arab Network

And another issue to throw in the steam cooker is the pending B.C. Arts Funding Cuts.

Copied from site: www.stopbcartscuts.ca. Photo of George Pulp Mill worker Denise Dauvin, courtesy of Bill Horne and Claire Kujundzic

The Facebook group: Organizing Against Campbell’s cuts to the arts is calling on people to, well, call out.

Because the B.C legislature is out of session, MLA’s are back home in their ridings, which means that you can turn up the pressure to restore arts funding.  Turn it right up to 11.

All you gotta do is call. Give your  MLA’s office a ring and let them know how important the arts are to you and your community. And while you’re at it shape your “restore arts funding now” post-it notes into an amp and make it loud.

Copied from Flickr: ArtsCutsMemo's photostream. Post it art by Liesl Jauk