This challenge demands our ambition. Our children deserve such ambition. And if we act now, if we can look beyond the swarm of current events and some of the economic challenges and political challenges involved, if we place the air that our children will breathe and the food that they will eat and the hopes and dreams of all posterity above our own short-term interests, we may not be too late for them. President Barack Obama. Remarks at U.N. Climate Change Summit, September, 2014.
In participating in the People’s Climate March, we call for the creation of good paying jobs and happy communities, for the right to clean air, water, and land, for healthy ecosystems, and for racial, social and economic justice, as many of those that are most impacted by climate change are also the ones most affected by socio-economic inequality. It’s valuable to point out that no movement can succeed without a strong platform. The People’s Climate Movement acknowledges this and has developed a detailed platform: www.huffingtonpost.com/...It’s been almost three years since an estimated 400,000 participated in the historic Peoples Climate March on the eve of the UN Climate Change Summit in New York City.
2014 represented a pivotal shift in US climate change policy in the run up to the signing of Paris Agreement.
We wake up in an unrecognizable world today. In less than 100 days of the new administration, we’ve witnessed an heretofore unimaginable assault on our values, accomplishments, and dreams.
The March for Science is dedicated to science and truth in all its forms: from combatting climate change, to curing diseases, to protecting our air and water. This powerful uprising of 400 (and counting) marches will demand evidence-based decision making from our politicians and unite local communities behind the importance of science. www.commondreams.org/...
Beginning on Earth Day, April 22, The March for Science kicks off a week of action dedicated to:
Resisting the policies of the new administration and the attacks on science and evidence
Building momentum to encourage civic engagement
Rising as a powerful movement to “protect science, people ,and the planet.”
The week culminates with the second People’s Climate March on April 29th, the 100th Day of the Trump administration.
Here at Daily Kos we are helping hundreds of other organizations working to mobilize mass participation in both rallies:
A team of diarists is forming to post promotional diaries in the lead up to the March for Science and every day from April 22 through the April 29 People’s Climate March We are encouraging the promotion of the march in regular series and other diaries throughout the day (the promo box will be in the queue in the Climate Action Hub, Climate Change SOS, and DK Greenroots … or feel free to fashion your own) Find a Lead up event near you for the People’s Climate March Find inspiration by following @PeoplesClimate and @ScienceMarchDC on Twitter. Help promote the social media campaign using the hashtags #MarchforScience, #ClimateMarch, and #PeoplesClimate (Visit PCM’s Social Media section for sample posts )Let’s get to work!
Peoples Climate MarchParticipate in our April 22-29 Week of Action and help chart a path away from Trump’s agenda and towards a clean energy economy!
On April 29, let’s march for jobs, justice, and the climate.
Sign up for the historic Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C. or for a ‘sister march’ near you.
To change everything, we need to stand together to protect our climate, our health, and our communities.