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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2014, 12:07 AM Sep 2014

Gothamist: What You Should Know About Sunday's Massive Climate March

http://gothamist.com/2014/09/17/climage_change_march_nyc.php

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World leaders are converging at the UN next Tuesday to show how very serious they are about tackling climate change, coupling stern rhetoric with the same cataclysmic inaction on which we’ve come to rely. In an effort to shake them out of their planet-killing torpor, a coalition of activists, environmentalists, unions, and community groups are staging the People’s Climate March, billed as the “largest climate march in history,” with more than 1,000 partnering organizations bringing hundreds of buses of protesters. The organizers are promising to “change everything.” But how?

You might expect an action directed at sending an urgent message to the decision makers gathering at the United Nations to occur at or near the United Nations. At least within sight of the United Nations? Perhaps the march might pass through an area where leaders on their way to the United Nations might see it? Or, they could march through Times Square, the symbolic cross-roads of the world, or some similarly highly trafficked area?
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