Dear John,
Fifty years ago today, an estimated twenty million people took to the
streets across the US.
It was a hellish time: rivers caught fire, cities choked on pollution,
species went extinct. Yet, the Earth Day marches ― in which ten percent of
Americans participated ― spurred seismic changes. Within a few short years
the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act
were signed into law. What had been a hellish time, started to look a
little more optimistic.
Sometimes history repeats itself. The sort of mass movement that forced
such environmental progress in the ‘70s has continued to build. Last
September, over seven million people around the world walked out of their
schools, their jobs, and their everyday lives to call for climate justice.
This Earth Day was poised to be the largest climate strike yet: many
millions striking on the streets, thousands of protests across the
country, and hundreds of voter registrations events in every state. But
with the current pandemic changed everything - so our climate movement is
going digital for what is expected to be one of the largest-ever online
demonstrations.
[ [link removed] ]This Earth Day millions of people are going online for Earth Day LIVE -
3 days of online climate activism that begin TODAY. Can you join?
Speakers include Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Patrisse Cullors,
Reverend Barber, and 350.org’s very own North America Director Tamara
Toles O’Laughlin. There will be music from Questlove, Nahko Bear, Dave
Matthews and many, many more - [ [link removed] ]join Earth Day Live here!
This Earth Day, we may be keeping our social distance, but we can still
come together for change - we hope you’ll join us.
In solidarity,
Emily
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