The People's Climate March - NYC Sept 21 2014
Sep 21, 2014
What a day! Historic, memorable, uplifiting, spirited. Estimates of over 300,000 people, young, old and diverse, marching through the streets of our city. They came just as the world's political leaders meet to discuss climate change at the United Nations.
They came to wake up and shake up those leaders with simple demands:
ACT NOW to prevent further climate change.
ACT NOW before catastrophic and irreversible damage changes our planet forever.
ACT NOW so that our children and their children will have a planet that they can actually live on.
ACT NOW, not years from now when it will be too late.
Brooklyn For Peace joined other peace and justice organizations. But the march represented a vast array of different organizations and just plain citizens concerned about the future of civilization.
The spirit was one of camaraderie and a feeling that this movement for change was only just beginning to find itself and that it would grow and become broader and more powerful.
We came away, uplifted and optimistic. This is a titanic battle to push back against the enormous monetary power of Big Oil and Big Energy which have shown they control Congress and countries....they have the money....we have the people. It's a battle for the future of our world as we know it today. The outcome is still undecided but today's march shows clearly that those ominous forces have not yet won and they'll have a powerful foe in the hundreds of thousands who marched today.
Here are photos I took. - Matt
Read MoreWhat a day! Historic, memorable, uplifiting, spirited. Estimates of over 300,000 people, young, old and diverse, marching through the streets of our city. They came just as the world's political leaders meet to discuss climate change at the United Nations.
They came to wake up and shake up those leaders with simple demands:
ACT NOW to prevent further climate change.
ACT NOW before catastrophic and irreversible damage changes our planet forever.
ACT NOW so that our children and their children will have a planet that they can actually live on.
ACT NOW, not years from now when it will be too late.
Brooklyn For Peace joined other peace and justice organizations. But the march represented a vast array of different organizations and just plain citizens concerned about the future of civilization.
The spirit was one of camaraderie and a feeling that this movement for change was only just beginning to find itself and that it would grow and become broader and more powerful.
We came away, uplifted and optimistic. This is a titanic battle to push back against the enormous monetary power of Big Oil and Big Energy which have shown they control Congress and countries....they have the money....we have the people. It's a battle for the future of our world as we know it today. The outcome is still undecided but today's march shows clearly that those ominous forces have not yet won and they'll have a powerful foe in the hundreds of thousands who marched today.
Here are photos I took. - Matt
At 12:58 pm , a very powerful moment of silence for those who have fallen victim to climate change in poor communities around the world. An amazing hush came over the hundreds of thousands assembled. Then a minute or so later -- a huge roar of the crowd traveled like a wave up the very many streets of assembled marchers - a noise to help wake and shake up the political leaders meeting at the UN next week.
