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Mon Sep 22, 2014, 11:00 AM Sep 2014

Taking a Call for Climate Change to the Streets

Source: NY Times

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Legions of demonstrators frustrated by international inaction on global warming descended on New York City on Sunday, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a message of alarm for world leaders set to gather this week at the United Nations for a summit meeting on climate change.

Coursing through Midtown, from Columbus Circle to Times Square and the Far West Side, the People’s Climate March was a spectacle even for a city known for doing things big, and it was joined, in solidarity, by demonstrations on Sunday across the globe, from Paris to Papua New Guinea.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/nyregion/new-york-city-climate-change-march.html?emc=edit_th_20140922&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=46529169&_r=0

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