With one week remaining until next Sunday's People's Climate March,
there are many ways you can become involved, even if you aren't traveling to NYC.
Show your support:
1. Thunderclap:
For those who haven't participated in a Thunderclap before, it's an online tool that lets folks all send a message via social media at the same time. Ours will be 'going off' at Noon on Monday. Signup now and help push this to your community of friends and supporters.
To join: click here. Then select "Support with Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr" and then follow prompts.
2) The Facebook signmaker tool!
PCM signs and images are percolating on Facebook, and March organizers have created a tool which enables you to customize your Facebook profile picture to say why you are marching, even if you're virtually marching! Share this ’signmaker' link to dramatically amplify 'social proof' around the march.
Just in from 350!
Tomorrow we're coordinating a national phonebank, where people from all across the country will make calls to people around the New York City area to get them to turn out to the march on the 21st.
That means you can pick up the phone in California tomorrow, and have an impact when the whole world is watching New York City on September 21st.
We have a system that makes it easy: all you need to do is let us know when you'll be calling, and when the time comes, I'll send you a link to our online tool that will give you the phone numbers of people who are signed up to come to the march, as well as all the key info you'll need to tell them, and a way to report their response.
You'll be joining a nationwide effort to turn out the march -- I'll be calling from New York -- and having a real impact on what could be the biggest climate march ever.
Sometimes all people need is a nudge and a reminder to get out into the streets. You'll be caling people who have already RSVP'd, so you can expect a good response too. Click here to sign up and get started: docs.google.com/a/350.org/forms/d/1Cpw3wR7-hbGctiRppeQjRirR0kxIbc50zS--D_fhiZ0/viewform
It's Not Just A March
If you are heading to New York, there are so many events to engage in the lead up and following the PCM.
1. Climate Convergence, People, Planet and Peace Over Profit, September 19th - 21st
2. Flood Wall Street, Monday September 22nd
3. On the Rise: Global and Local Front-line Communities and the Climate Crisis, September 16th, 7pm
Climate Convergence, People, Planet and Peace Over Profit, September 19th - 21st
Climate activists from around the world are participating in the NYC Climate Convergence. Over one hundred workshops are taking place in churches, gardens, community centers and on two university campuses in Lower Manhattan - aimed at finding real alternatives and developing action plans that transform the system, rather than accept it. The convergence will include hub meet ups for the following hubs: Tar Sands, Indigenous Peoples, Public Health, Vegans, Bike Bloc, Elders, Boston, California, Fracking, White Anti-Racist Climate Activists, Climate Impacted Shorefront Communities and Great March for Climate Action. More information can be found at as well as a schedule can be found at as well as below this email.
#FloodWallStreet - Monday September 22nd, after the People's Climate March
On Monday, September 22nd at 9:00 am, thousands of people will gather at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan to confront the root cause of the climate crisis - an economic system based on exploiting frontline communities, workers and natural resources. On the heels of the largest-ever march on climate change, we have an opportunity to transform the economic system driving this crisis.
Wearing blue to represent the sea that surrounds us, we rise to the steps of the NY Stock Exchange at 12:00 pm, flooding the area with our bodies in a massive sit-in - a collective act of nonviolent civil disobedience - to confront the system that both causes and profits from the crisis that is threatening humanity.
There is no time to waste - Wall Street must be transformed. Through the power of people taking collective action we will build an economy based on justice and sustainability and stop the climate crisis.
Full call to action and information here.
9 AM - Gather @ Battery Park - Breakfast and Music from Rude Mechanical Orchestra
9:30 AM - Speakers - including frontline community leaders of the Climate Justice Alliance, Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Chris Hedges
11 AM -- Nonviolent Direct Action Training & March
12 PM -- Flood Wall St. and mass Sit-in
Sign up for updates and more information:
Join the Facebook event.
On the Rise: Global and Local Front-line Communities and the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
7pm-9pm
The New School Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
On September 16, just 5 days before the People's Climate Mobilization, the largest and most diverse environmental action in history, Global Climate Ambassadors from around the world will be in conversation with NYC activists to share their perspectives, discuss real solutions and confront the contradictions and disparities that result in indigenous, low-income, immigrant and people of color communities bearing the burden of the effects of climate change. The conversation will focus on sharing each others' struggles, and the strategies they are using to halt the climate crisis and transform the climate movement.
Sign up For the People's Climate March Now!
New York City, Sunday, September 21
Have you signed up yet to participate in the Peoples' Climate March? The September 21 March is being held two days before the UN Climate Summit, where government and corporate leaders will convene to discuss taking action to address climate change.
Tens of thousands are expected to march in New York City and over 700 groups and organizations are participating.
Let's make September a game-changer for the climate movement. Sign up now for a bus, train, or ride shares (or volunteer transport.) Individuals, campuses, churches and organizations are registering to host marchers.
Sign up here!!! --> People's Climate March