[img]2723|right|||no_popup[/img]On Sunday, Sept. 21, people from around the nation will come together in an unprecedented citizen mobilization for the People’s Climate March in New York City.
As world leaders meet at the United Nations climate change summit, tens of thousands of marchers will demand the world we know is within our reach: A global economy that works for people and the planet, a planet safe from the ravages of climate change, a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities. Solidarity demonstrations will take place around the world as we collectively call on our leaders to act on climate change.
As global CO2 levels (driven by fossil fuel use) hit 400 ppm for the first time in millions of years, signs of earth’s disrupted biosphere abound, from rising temperatures and extreme weather to resource shortages and massive die-offs.
All trajectories point to a dead planet if we do not bring radical change now.
What’s Happening in Los Angeles?
Meanwhile, a growing coalition of Southern California organizations and individuals is working together to ensure that our local leaders know that Angelenos are also watching, and we too demand climate action now. We are working to bring hundreds of Southern Californians together for the People’s Climate March Los Angeles — Building Blocks Against Climate Change to support the marchers in New York and to call for immediate action on climate change here at home.
The People’s Climate March Los Angeles – Building Blocks Against Climate Change will be the day before New York, on Saturday, Sept. 20, from 1 o’clock to 5, along Wilshire Boulevard, at MacArthur Park, between Wilton Place and Alvarado Boulevard. A SoCal Climate Action Coalition 350 member, Converging Storms Action Network, has planned for a broad assortment of organizations and groups, friends and families, co-workers and communities to gather along Wilshire Boulevard in a chain of interlinking block protests. Diverse groups and individuals each will create their part of a network of protests — like overlapping neighborhood vigils or sidewalk picket lines — extending block after adjacent block between Wilton Place and Alvarado Street at MacArthur Park.
People’s Climate LA – Building Blocks Against Climate Change
FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/1zrOWuj
Pick a corner. Pick a block. View the webpage map at http://againstclimatechange.org/ Choose a corner, intersection or block along Wilshire, fill out the brief form, and hit Submit. Inform your members, make plans, signs, and materials, and outreach to everyone you know. Multiple groups can choose the same site
For information, see insyte22@gmail.com.
The Southern California Climate Action Coalition 350 will advance our Call to Action California: How to Solve the Climate Crisis for solutions that work for people and the planet – a rapid transition to a just and sustainable carbon-free economy, based on an ambitious program of energy efficiency and conservation, coupled with an expansion of clean, renewable energy.
We will press our elected leaders to:
• Protect and strengthen California’s Global Warming Solutions Act [AB 32] and implement strong Climate Action Plans for Southern California Cal cities.
• Institute a program where polluters must pay rising fees for their carbon output, the dividends of which could be used to subsidize energy costs or alternative energy.
• Impose an immediate moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, acidization, and gravel packing, as well as the transportation, storage and refining of heavy tar sands crude.
• Reject multinational trade agreements that weaken environmental and public interest protections.
