Come for the People's Climate March - stay for networking, learning and action!

[Organize Everywhere]

Hi Folks,

I know everyone is really excited for the biggest climate march in history on September 21st! 

But why put in all this effort and travel all this way just for one day?  There is so much networking to do to strengthen our movement, so much to learn from each other and some serious direct action necessary.  Check out three important events below that will help us all make more out of The People's Climate events than just a march!

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 http://convergeforclimate.org/ 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:  http://floodwallstreet.net

• 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: 
http://www.beyondthemarch.org/floodwallstreet 

Join the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/832215646797522/?ref=br_tf
facebook.com/floodwallstreet

Check out new graphics and images:
http://floodwallstreet.tumblr.com/
http://instagram.com/floodwallstreet

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.

 

Further Event Information At:

 http://events.newschool.edu/event/climate_action_week_350org_climate_ambassadors_symposium#.VBNIP_ldX-X

Facebook invite:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1525886544290675/?context=create&source=49#

Thanks,

Tammy