This week in Photos: 30 images from the People's Climate March and Flood Wall St.
September 28, 2014
Exactly a week ago, history was made when the largest protest ever against climate change was held in New York City. While over 150 countries held their own actions, the New York event brought over 300,000 people, including Senators Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, and Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Keith Ellison, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo and more. Also marching were clergy, scientists, unions, community organizing groups, indigenous communities, as well as LGBT, economic justice, and environmentalist organizations, to name a few.
But that wasn't the only watershed (no pun intended) even from NYC this week. Monday, at #FloodWallSt, an estimated 3,000 people wearing blue flooded (parts of) Wall St, in order to "spark a national conversation about the role of corporate power in climate politics." As the website stated, "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." By the end of the day, 100 people had been arrested.
The People's Climate March preceded and the Flood Wall St. sit-in coincided with
Here are some images and videos of these important events, both of which mainstream media did its best to ignore.
Image via Working Families Party.
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image via Laura Shmishkiss
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image via Zach D Roberts for DesmogBlog
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