Subject: Bill McKibbon on the 9/21 NYC event: If you're looking for hope...
The first and subject message is below this P.S.: Never been to Manhattan? It's easy!
If you've never visited Manhattan you might not know how easy it is
to get around, if you are able to stand and are able to walk short
distances. It's much easier without a car, and the subway
maps make it easy to get around even if you don't have money for
cabs, which by the way are everywhere. And I can attest that
Manhattan tends to be beautiful in September. Amtrak trains arrive
in the middle of downtown Manhattan, itself a very interesting area.
Larry
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Subject: Bill McKibbon on the 9/21 NYC event: If you're looking for
hope...
Bill McKibbon today wrote me and another friend and maybe you or maybe not:
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/sent-8814-climate-summit-very-big-deal.html
Previous on longer range weather forecasts:
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-62714-climate-disaster-is-not-so.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-6114-something-good-big-progress.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-61814-al-gore-turning-point-new.html Note that "previous links" in this one sent 6/18/14 overlap with the "previous links" in the first of these three, sent 6/27/14. So you can catch up or review by following back the previous linkage given in the one dated 6/27 and just the main articles in the other two.
Larry
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The question of how a relatively small group of cloistered gangsters can so consistently destroy everything they touch (except the bank accounts of their benefactors) and still remain in power gets to the heart of the American conundrum. --Rob Urie (link)
Bill McKibbon today wrote me and another friend and maybe you or maybe not:
Friends,Previous on this event, with participating organizations link--700 as of August 1st--and transportation link: Note the code for a 10 percent discount on the best available transportation to New York City September 15th to September 24th. "Call 1 (800) 872-7245 or contact your local travel agent. This cannot be done on line." Convention Fare Code X22T-908.
If you’re on the fence about heading to the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21st, you may be wondering: will it matter if I go?
That’s a reasonable question. It’s certainly true that marching alone is not going to stop climate change. But by bringing the whole movement together, we let the world’s leaders understand that there are strong demands for real action.
Since the other side has all the money (the fossil fuel industry is the richest industry on earth), they’ll always win unless we show up in force. When we do -- in the fight against the Keystone pipeline, for example -- we stand a chance. We’ve helped keep that one from being built for three years now because our protest has been a match for their cash.
The New York march is about the whole climate fight the world over. Together we hope to make a statement for ourselves, and on behalf of all of our brothers and sisters from pole to pole. With so many world leaders assembled in New York, as they will be the week of Sept. 21st, we need folks on this continent to help make that global passion visible to the powers-that-be.
Of course marches don’t work by themselves. Crucially important work will be done in the weeks and months after Sept. 21. But that work will be more powerful because we’ve stood together, and felt each other’s strength.
Here’s another question, one I’m asked almost every time I speak. “How do you stay hopeful?” I don’t always, but most of the time I do -- precisely because I get to see, every day, the remarkable people involved in this fight.
If you're looking for hope, I can't think of anywhere better to be than the streets of New York this September.
See you there,
Bill
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/sent-8814-climate-summit-very-big-deal.html
Previous on longer range weather forecasts:
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-62714-climate-disaster-is-not-so.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-6114-something-good-big-progress.html
http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-61814-al-gore-turning-point-new.html Note that "previous links" in this one sent 6/18/14 overlap with the "previous links" in the first of these three, sent 6/27/14. So you can catch up or review by following back the previous linkage given in the one dated 6/27 and just the main articles in the other two.
Larry
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Larry at Blogspot "undisclosed recipients" email message archive, no logging in, no public comments
The question of how a relatively small group of cloistered gangsters can so consistently destroy everything they touch (except the bank accounts of their benefactors) and still remain in power gets to the heart of the American conundrum. --Rob Urie (link)
