Climate marchers need you to send message to President Trump

It’s heartening to see strong resistance to Trump & Co. in the northwest Bronx, with vigorous action by established groups like Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, Bronx Climate Justice North, Concerned Citizens for Change, and more. 

They, of course, are joined by the newer Indivisible.org group and other #ResistTrump efforts springing up to respond to the new administration’s onslaughts.

As the weather warms, street protests will multiply. Direct, visible action will continue to be one of the most important ways to resist, protect democratic rights, and expand already existing justice movements throughout the city, state and country. 

Please mark your calendars for the People’s Climate March, Part 2 — it’s coming on Saturday, April 29.

Many Riverdale Press readers participated in the 500,000-strong People’s Climate March on Sept. 21, 2014. 

The PCM was far more than “just” the largest worldwide mobilization demanding that leaders act on climate change. Organizing for it and hundreds of sister marches around the world deepened and widened the global climate justice movement. 

The same thing is happening as hundreds of thousands mobilize for this year’s People’s Climate March.

On April 29, we have another opportunity to show our power. The March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington, D.C., will be massive. It has to be. 

The challenge has never been greater, what with big oil insiders leading key agencies in the U.S. government, plans to gut the EPA and environmental justice and climate regulations, and the cynical pretense that global warming is a hoax.

On April 29, we’ll march for our families and for planetary survival. 

We’ll march for indigenous sovereignty, for clean water and air, and for jobs in a just, renewable energy economy. 

We’ll demand an end to the deep-seated environmental racism that plagues our borough and so many other communities.

We’ll march for justice for front-line communities in the United States and all over the world, for people who contribute the least to climate change, but are suffering from it “first and worst.”

Climate activist Naomi Klein has it right: “If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then the political class will have to respond by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril.”

Questions about joining the People’s Climate March on April 29? About getting active, here at home, for climate justice? 

Email bronxclimatejusticenorth@gmail.com.

All we need is your whole-hearted involvement — for the rest of your life.