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| photos by diane greene lent 350.org and this blogger. |
There are moments when
the city feels completely alive. At
least it felt that way yesterday as I rode across the Brooklyn Bridge, down Broadway,
past the bull, to battery park for the New York Rise for Climate, Jobs, and
Justice action.
People from all my worlds
of activism – the Professional Staff Congress, Rise and Resist, Sane Energy Project,
Sunrise - were there.
Zach was back from the supreme court actions in DC.
Mel had just gotten arrested.
The Sane Energy Project folks were organizing their own upcoming CD.
In such moments it
feels like my entire world is opening up, welcoming a just transition into a
new world.
The environmental
movement in New York extends in countless directions.
So its always special
when our worlds of labor activism and sustainability converge.
The ups and downs of
this period are many.
We’ve marched,
planned, created gardens, planted, gone to Paris, lobbied, gotten arrested, stopped fracking, and endured
setbacks. We've regulated to stop pollution and they've deregulated.
But everyone needs clean water and skies.
We don’t want to be
remembered as the generation that had a chance to stop climate change and stumbled. There is so much we can do.
The interconnections
between these movements and our delicate ecology are many.
New York Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice
The weekend before the Global Climate Action
Summit in San Francisco, the Peoples Climate Movement will lead a nation-wide
mobilization: Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice. The first action will be on
Thursday, September 6th, as New Yorkers gather in Battery Park (exact location
tbd) at 5:30pm demanding immediate action from Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor
Bill de Blasio, and all elected officials.
Join us to Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice and march for
our demands to:
• Just transition to 100% renewable energy now.
• Halt all fossil fuel infrastructure.
• Make corporate polluters pay.
Check out the national statement at the Rise for Climate,
Jobs, and Justice event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/223025918248909/
We will be calling for a transition to a new
100% clean and renewable energy future that creates millions of family
sustaining jobs, and ensures that racial and economic justice are core to
action on climate in every community.
Our communities, our planet, and our future depend on a
climate movement that reaches all corners of this country. To change
everything, it takes everyone — and with your help we can build a sustainable
world for generations to come.
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