Plans are afoot for November 18th: “It’s Our Future! Youth Speak Out to Save the Environment and the Earth” Click on the image to get the poster with all the details.
It's Our Future!
The Northampton rally on 9/25 made the news in a large front-page article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Read it here.
The Northampton group has a page on the moving-planet.org website with their plans for the Northampton Moving Planet Big Freeze & Fossil Fuel Funeral.
Want to help plan this event? You can read about it at their website and sign up there to help! Jill Turner, the organizer, says: “Many people have expressed interest in the parade and the freeze! It seems as if it’s creating itself. I just keep bumping into wonderful people. For acts we’ve got the Expandable Brass Band, Harmony hoola-hoopers with a gal drum core, pedal people, a coffin with 40 white masks, dragons and puppets…. Anyone want to help organize? I need people to do a whole lot of tasks. I need people to contact groups and help them think of ideas for being in the parade.”
The following came in an email from John Berkowitz. Click the image for a full size version.
Chill-out-the-Climate Rally!
Sunday Sept. 25 Northampton 1-5pm:
A huge world-wide rally, sponsored by 350.org,* to move beyond fossil fuels and expand the grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis caused by global warming, and build a clean energy sustainable future.
*Led by renowned environmental author/activist Bill McKibben
1pm: Gather in park in front of Bridge Street School, Route 9, Northampton. Come by bike/skateboard/skates/bus/walking/carpool/driving. Park on side streets nearby.
2pm: Cross the bridge to a safe climate/clean energy future. March one mile east on Rt. 9 sidewalk to Coolidge Bridge, then walk onto nearby Bikepath bridge. With hundreds in along line facing downriver, 20 people in the middle hold big block letter signs saying: CHILL THE CLIMATE! 350.org.Photo will be taken from Coolidge Bridge, for local media, and for 350.org to share online world-wide. Parade thenreturns on sidewalk to Bridge Street School park.
3-5pm: RALLY
MUSIC: Katie Sachs & other local youth musicians, poets, & hip-hop artists
SPEAKERS: John Berkowitz, poet/activist; others not yet confirmed
Sponsored by: Pioneer Valley Climate Action; Grow Food Northampton; Smith College Environmental Science and Policy Center; Green Northampton; MoveOn.org (Western MA councils); First Churches, Northampton,Peace and Justice Committee; Greening Grace (Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst); Haydenville Congregational Church’s Peace and Justice Committee; Alliance for Peace and Justice; Alliance to Develop Power/ADP; AmericanFriends Service Committee of Western MA; Northeast Organic Farming Association; Western MA Progressive Democrats of America; Traprock Center for Peace and Justice; Citizens Awareness Network (to close VT Yankee);Safe and Green Campaign; Voice Male Magazine; Greening Greenfield; Greenfield Community College’s Peace, Justice, and Environmental Studies Option; Arise for Social Action, Springfield; MindShift Institute, NationalPriorities Project; Northampton; Pioneer Valley Green-Rainbow Party; Valley Free Radio’s Enviro Show; Prosperity Candle–Partnering with women in places of conflict & natural disaster to bring light out of darkness.
More info:
413-625-6374
johnpberk@gmail.com
www.amherst350.org
Can’t make it on Sunday the 25th? Then please join similar rallies/actions on Saturday, Sept. 24th, noon, in Amherst and Greenfield.
Plus, in Northampton at noon on the 24th, you’re welcome to observe or participate in the Moving Planet Big Freeze & Fossil Fuel Funeral