The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis

Such an excellent program, speakers, and vitally needed rally! POWERFUL! Deepest gratitude for all who turned out! And we all need to be hitting the streets, being strong voices of truth again and again, exposing the evil that is continuing to be perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry and all who are in their pockets, and standing up in protection of life on Earth. It is so utterly essential that the dots are connected between fossil fuel industry and the continuous catastrophic record breaking human caused floods and droughts, wildfires and extreme heat, hurricanes and tropical storms, failing crops and starvation, rising seas and resource wars and millions of climate refugees and dislocations and deaths, and on and on. Everything, absolutely everything, that we love and cherish is at risk. — Molly

Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of midtown Manhattan Sunday to send a clear message to the world and leaders coming to the city for the U.N. General Assembly this week: End fossil fuels. As part of more than 200 actions around the world leading up to the first-ever United Nations Climate Ambition Summit this Wednesday, more than 700 grassroots groups together called on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, stop all federal approvals for new fossil fuel projects, phase out production of fossil fuels on federal public lands, and build a new clean energy future. Speakers at the massive march’s rally included New York Democratic Congressmember Jamaal Bowman, environmental justice activist Sharon Lavigne, former Irish President Mary Robinson, actor Susan Sarandon and climate scientist Peter Kalmus. “Every little bit of fossil fuel we burn makes the planet a little hotter,” warned Kalmus, while Bowman and Robinson condemned fossil fuel investment as “subsidizing” the planet’s “own self-destruction.” Added Kalmus, “This is a task of cosmic importance. … We are on the brink of losing absolutely everything.”

Please go here for the original program and full transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/18/march_to_end_fossil_fuels_presser