We're a ship of fools for certain. "We", meaning our world-wide
Ruling Classes, the ones who hold the working class hostage.
Continuing to build war machinery will doom the Human Species. What
will the Masters defend or seize? Rubble and a burned out planet
can't be a good goal. But that is where they are headed. And, unless
we come to our senses, they will sweep us right along with themselves.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/7/18, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://socialistaction.org/2018/09/06/rise-for-climate-jobs-and-justice/
Rise for climate, jobs, and justice!
/ 12 hours ago
Sept. 2018 Climate youthBy DON HARMON
“Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice” is one of the rallying cries for
the march and protest to be held in San Francisco and many other cities
on Saturday, Sept. 8. (Sept. 6 in New York City.) In San Francisco, the
march will begin at 10 a.m. at the Embarcadero Plaza and continue up
Market Street for a rally at the Civic Center. Some 300 organizations
have endorsed the San Francisco action, including 54 labor organizations.
The Peoples Climate Movement, with climate organizations such as
350.org, launched the “Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice September 8”
mobilization. People from around the country and the world will take to
the streets to demand bold action on climate change.
In the past year, the Trump administration has acceded to the oil, coal,
and automobile industry moguls by rolling back numerous climate and
health policies. Recently, more than 200,000 people marched in
Washington, D.C. to show their resistance to Trump’s life-killing
actions. This year the Peoples Climate Movement aims to transform this
energy into action, to build both local and national climate movements
calling for a just transition to a 100% renewable economy.
The Sept. 8 day of protest evolved from California Governor Jerry
Brown’s call for a Global Climate Action Summit to be held in San
Francisco, Sept. 12 -14.
According to its website, the Summit “will bring together state and
local governments, businesses and citizens from around the world to
showcase climate action taking place, thereby demonstrating how the tide
has turned in the race against climate change and inspiring deeper
national commitments in support of the Paris Agreement.” Among those in
attendance will be former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, actor Alec
Baldwin, scientist Jane Goodall, former U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry, and other elected officials. Also, such capitalists as Salesforce
CEO Marc Benioff and Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson will be attending.
Governor Brown, though he has been a long-time supporter of the oil and
fracking industries in California, now wants to place himself in a
leadership position in the growing climate change movement that shouts
“Keep it in the ground!” As a capitalist politician, Brown contradicts
himself. He and his ilk represent the problem, not the solution.
Climate activists can use Brown’s initiative to advance climate justice
far beyond the governor’s limited, corporate-led response and build
connections that will lay the groundwork for a fighting movement that is
not hemmed in by the capitalist parties of either Democrats or
Republicans. Climate change attacks working families all across the
planet. In the U.S., the working class, people of color, and the poor
are most heavily impacted by dirty air and water, and are suffering with
increasing levels of cancer and respiratory issues.
Sept. 8 organizers, through many planning meetings held throughout the
Bay Area, are building connections and linking climate activists
together around important issues such as economic and racial justice,
gender equality, workers rights, and immigrant rights.
“Brown’s Last Chance” will be one of the marching contingents, calling
on Gov. Brown to end all new fossil fuel permitting in California and
undertake the conversion of industry to sustainable methods of production.
Among the demands for Sept. 8 are “Stop Fossil Fuels! Build 100%
Renewables!” “No to the Keystone XL Pipeline!” “The Oil Companies Don’t
Care About Lives, Only Profit!”
As Desmond Tutu said, “People of conscience need to break their ties
with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.” The Sept.
8 protests are our opportunity to voice our opposition to corporate
destruction of our planet and to build a growing movement that is
independent of the capitalist parties and their politicians.
All out for September 8th! March to protect our lives and the planet!
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September 6, 2018 in Environment, San Francisco Bay Area. Tags: climate
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