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‘A RECKONING’: 500 GROUPS ENDORSE MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS  
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Olivia Rosane
September 5, 2023
Common Dreams
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_ "The March to End Fossil Fuels isn't a request," one organizer said
"It's a demand for President Biden to enact actionable solutions that
match the scale of the crisis at hand." _

Freshly painted banners for a previous 'People vs. Fossil Fuels'
protest. , (Photo: Josh Yoder / Look Loud )

 

A total of 500 international, national, and local organizations have
endorsed the September 17 March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City,
leaders behind the event announced
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The march comes
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of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' Climate Ambition Summit
and follows a summer of fossil-fueled extreme weather that smothered
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Northeast and Midwest in wildfire smoke, flooded
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streets of Vermont's state capital, devastated
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town of Lahaina in Maui, and baked
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under 31 days of more than 110°F heat.

"It's never been more clear than now–a summer of record heat, deadly
fires, and devastating floods–that we need to unite to put an end to
fossil fuels," Oil Change International
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program manager Allie Rosenbluth said in a statement. "Every new
fossil fuel project is incompatible with a livable future."

Oil Change International is one of the march's main organizers, along
with the Center for Biological Diversity
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the Center for Popular Democracy, Climate Organizing Hub, Food &
Water Watch [[link removed]],
Fridays For Future USA & NYC, Earthworks, Greenfaith, Indigenous
Environmental Network, New York Communities for Change, and Oil & Gas
Action Network.

They have been joined
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the Sunrise Movement
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as by prominent activists and progressive politicians like Jane
Fonda, Bill McKibben
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Markey [[link removed]] (D-Mass.),
Reps. Rashida Tlaib
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and Jamaal Bowman
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Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson.

The march will call [[link removed]] President Joe
Biden to stop approving new fossil fuel projects, end oil and gas
drilling on public lands, declare a climate emergency, and ensure a
just transition to renewable energy that provides good jobs and
respects local communities.

"With 500 organizations strong, the March to End Fossil Fuels isn't a
request, it's a demand for President Biden to enact actionable
solutions that match the scale of the crisis at hand," Olivia Leirer,
co-executive director of New York Communities for Change, said in a
statement.

The march comes as Republican candidates are already jostling to
decide who will face Biden in the 2024 presidential election, and
younger activists warned that Biden's approval of carbon bombs like
the Willow Project
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Valley Pipeline could hurt him with the youth voters who helped him
win in 2020.

"In the past three years many of us have lost the passion and hope we
originally had when fighting for Biden," Fridays For Future NYC
Organizer Noa Greene-Houvras said in a statement. "We have watched him
approve pipelines and fossil fuel projects that youth have
consistently pushed against. The same voices that called him to the
presidency are now calling on him to take bold climate action."

Organizers also emphasize the impact that the burning of oil, gas, and
coal and the pollution and extreme weather it generates have on
communities across the country, especially low-income or minority
communities.

"The current reliance on fossil fuels is literally killing Black
Americans," NAACP director for the Center for Environmental and
Climate Justice Abre' Conner said in a statement. "Black elders are
three times more likely to die from air quality-related issues and
Black youth continue to suffer the impacts of living in communities
that are more likely to house fossil fuel plants and other toxic waste
incinerators."

"This is an emergency," Conner added. "For Black communities to have
any hope of a just and sustainable future, we must act now."

The New York march is part of a larger international escalation
against fossil fuels launched
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June and timed for the weekend before Guterress' September 20 summit,
which asks nations for the first time to present plans for phasing out
fossil fuels and ceasing production of the climate-warming energy
sources.

It will begin [[link removed]] from 56th
Street and Broadway at 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time, move down Broadway
to 52nd Street, and then follow 52nd Street to First Avenue for a
rally at First and 50th outside U.N. headquarters. Organizers expect
thousands of participants, and to join them, you can RSVP here
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"We demand President Biden wield his power, to usher in the end of
fossil fuels so our planet and people can thrive," Rosenbluth said.
"We join together for the March to End Fossil Fuels, not just to ask
for change, but for a reckoning."

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