Media Advisory: Oregonians Join Global March for Climate Action
Bobby Hayden
For those of you in touch with any media this week: please use our media advisory posted below. Feel free to forward along to contacts and feel free to CC me in any outreach. bo...@climatesolutions.org | 503.781.3383
I will be working on speaker quotes for a full press release headed out this week. Will forward that along as soon as it’s final .
Media Advisory
What: PDX People’s Climate March
When: Sunday, September 21 @ 3pm
Where: The Bowl @ Tom McCall Waterfront Park - SW Naito Parkway & SW Madison
To learn more, get involved and stay tuned: peoplesclimate.org/oregon/
On twitter: @PCMinPDX | Email: PCMi...@gmail.com
Oregonians Join Global March for Climate Action
On Sunday September 21 at 3pm Pacific, thousands of Oregonians will rally at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park and march in solidarity with the People’s Climate March occurring earlier that day in New York City with over 1500 events planned in over 130 countries around the globe.
Oregon event locations include Portland, Bend, Salem, Eugene and more. Speakers and marchers represent many walks of life: organized labor and social justice, communities of color, health care professionals, children and faith leaders from a multitude of congregations.
Expected to be the largest collective demonstration for climate action in history, the People’s Climate March takes place just two days before President Obama and world leaders gather for an emergency Climate Summit at the United Nations. Marchers and the over 1000 organizations involved in NYC are demanding leaders go beyond rhetoric and commit to bold action at the summit.
Oregon organizers, speakers and marchers are part of an ever-expanding Northwest, national and international movement calling for climate justice now, representing a diversity of backgrounds, geographies, religions, and organizations united in the shared belief that a better world is possible; a world safe from the dangers of runaway climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities.
To change everything, we need everybody. That means you. Bring yourself, your friends, your family, neighbors and coworkers.
Together we can call for state, national and international action to address climate change and speed the transition to clean energy. Together we can stand up in our own communities to organize, build power, confront the power of fossil fuels, and shift power to a just, safe, peaceful world.