To: "Timkubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 2:34:52 PM
Subject: Let's make sure we were heard.
Friends,
Yesterday was an historic day. The People's Climate March brought over 400,000 people to the streets of New York to march, chant, sing, dance, and fight our way toward climate justice. Together, we were a movement.
It was a transformative feeling. Let's keep it going.
Tomorrow, we'll deliver a message to world leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit calling for action, not words. If you stand with the hundreds of thousands of people who marched for climate action yesterday -- both in New York and at 2,646 solidarity events around the world -- now is the time to add your voice:
Click here to demand world leaders take action on climate change.
Of the 50,000 students from 400 campuses at yesterday's march, many of them were fighting for divestment from fossil fuels. Of the hundreds of faith groups, state contingents, and groups carrying banners representing cities or towns, many also wore orange squares or t-shirts representing fossil fuel divestment. This morning, thousands of protesters descended on Wall Street to call corporate profiteers to account. As I write this, divestment activists are risking arrest as part of the #FloodWallStreet action.
Today we also woke up to a new report that puts the divestment movement in perspective: according to numbers released by Arabella Advisors and the Divest-Invest coalition, 181 institutions and local governments and 656 individuals representing over $50 billion dollars have pledged to divest to-date.
That number includes the $860 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which was built on the Standard Oil fortune — a sign of the times? All told, the report indicates that fossil fuel divestment commitments have doubled since January 2014.
Big mobilizations like the People's Climate March don't happen in a day -- they're made up of thousands of smaller groups, campaigns, and causes, plus a lot of hard organizing work back at home. That is, they happen because of you.
Huge thanks to the divestment campaigners who joined us in New York yesterday. For those that weren't able to join us, you can still be part of the message:
We demand climate action now, and, no, we're not waiting.
New York City heard our message yesterday. World leaders will hear it tomorrow. Now let's bring all this beautiful, transformative energy home with us to make our local campaigns that much stronger.
Onward,
YJ & the Fossil Free team
Fossil Free is an international network of campuses and communities that are divesting from the fossil fuel companies that are causing the climate crisis. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up for email updates on our homepage.
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