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Global Warming Activists Wrap 5-Day March Through N.H.

From the Boston Globe

CONCORD, N.H. --Tired, but exhilarated, hundreds of climate change activists on Sunday capped a 5-day walk through New Hampshire to raise awareness for their cause with a rally and street fair at the Statehouse.

A core group of activists, most of them recent college graduates, walked more than 40 miles from Nashua to Concord during a week of hot, humid weather when temperatures at times reached 100 degrees. They were joined along the way by New Hampshire residents of all ages, like Lisa Beaudoin, of Temple, N.H., who runs a bed and breakfast and small farm. Beaudoin walked with her two sons, aged 8 and 11, and drew cheers from the crowd when she urged activists to "demand nothing less than a clean plant to give to all of our children."

The "March to ReEnergize New Hampshire" started in Greeley Park in Nashua on Tuesday and ended Sunday around noon as about 250 cheering, sign-waving marchers made their way down Concord's Main Street to the Statehouse lawn.

Marchers like Lindsey Franklin of Concord, Mass., and Kelly Blynn of Philadelphia, recent Middlebury College graduates, said participants drank lots of water and got through the stifling heat by raising their spirits with songs and chants.

"What's great about the youth climate movement is there is so much energy," Franklin said.

"This is the challenge of our generation," she said.

For more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/08/05/global_warming_activists_wrap_5_day_march_through_nh/