Triumph for the #PeoplesClimate, as we were heard by the leaders and public awareness is being raised. World Team Now was a partner organization, we also organized the roller skate hub demonstrating energy in action skating in the march. There were estimated to be close to 400,000 people attending the march. We were the die-hard World Team Now/CPDSA skaters that weathered the dangerously wet concrete and rough route road, in the “We Have Solutions” section of the march’s story. Here are some of our photos.
Check out our partner organizations’ photos, and these photos from our campaign partners in TckTckTck– to get a flavor of the scale of the event; Team works!
Here are three articles that captured this historical #PeoplesClimate March: Time, New Yorker & NYTimes.
Here is an anonymous drone’s aerial coverage of the PeoplesClimate March
At WTN we have Action Embroidery to thank for our World Team Now embroidered logo stick-on, and iron on patches! We had hundreds standing for our World Team Now! Now for the leaders to heed the voices of the people, and it has begun…
Today at the UN Climate 2014 Summit opening, a mother’s poem to her baby daughter brings the leaders at the United Nations’ General Assembly to their feet, for a standing ovation. Footage of the Peoples’ Climate March augments Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s heart moving poem.
“We look at our children and wonder how they will know themselves, or their culture, should we lose our islands. Climate change affects not only us islanders. It threatens the entire world,” said Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner—she left the opening ceremony after delivering her message. Her emotional plea that “We deserve to do more than just survive; we deserve to thrive,” set the tone for the day’s activities, that helped to building momentum for the global climate deal expected in 2015 COP21, Paris.
