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DiCaprio and 3,00,000 others take part in climate change demonstration in NY

by The Daily Eye Team September 24 2014, 8:33 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 39 secs

New York City on Sunday was the scene of a huge and colourful demonstration against climate change with more than 3, 00,000 people turning out as part of an international initiative to raise awareness about the dangers of global warming. Preliminary estimates given by organisers said that 310,000 people showed up for the peaceful march, making it one of the largest protests ever held in the Big Apple and certainly the largest in history on the topic of climate change. Attending the huge gathering were representatives of ecological groups, unions and New York communities, as well as whole families and citizens of all ethnicities, nationalities and economic circumstances, joining together in a huge street party bringing bright colours, hand-lettered signs and assorted musical rhythms to the city streets.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.

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