Monday, September 22, 2014

300,000 people March for Climate Change in NY - Amazing

http://www.alternet.org/environment/giant-diverse-climate-march-makes-history-protests-tap-monday?akid=12276.294211.ETdnXb&rd=1&src=newsletter1020231&t=3


Organizers claim that more than 310,000 people attended the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday. And while it might not have been  thatbig, it certainly was immense and easily the largest climate action in world history with people attending from across the United States and around the world, with 2,808 other climate rallies held today in more than 150 countries.
The New York march was attended by notable figures in politics, entertainment, science and the environmental movement, including Former Vice President Al Gore, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, primatologist Jane Goodall, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Keith Ellision (D-MN), Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), actors Mark Ruffalo, Ed Norton, Evangeline Lily, and Leonardo DiCaprio, rock icon Sting, and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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