Climate March expected to draw massive crowd to D.C. in sweltering heat
Source: WashPost
By Chris Mooney April 29 at 11:00 AM
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Marshalls and staff get organized before the march begins. (Joshua Yospyn/For The Washington Post)
On what could be a record-hot day, tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to assemble in Washington on Saturday. Their large-scale climate change protest will mark President Trump’s first 100 days in office, which have been punctuated by multiple rollbacks of environmental protections and Obama climate policies.
The People’s Climate March, which originated with a massive demonstration in New York in September 2014, picked a symbolically striking day for its 2017 event. Temperatures could exceed 90 degrees and possibly set a record for April 29 in the District, which would amplify the movement’s message.
Marchers are sure to be further galvanized by a move taken by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday. The agency announced that it was beginning an overhaul of its website, which included taking down a long-standing site devoted to the science of climate change, which the agency said was “under review.” (The EPA did link to a snapshot of how the page looked on Jan. 19, before the Trump administration.)
The climate event differs from last week’s March for Science in its focus and also its participants — only 1 out of 8 planned contingents of Saturday’s protest will feature scientific researchers. The rest will include labor activists, indigenous people already facing severe effects from climate change, and children and young people who will live with the effects of climate change longest as the Earth continues to warm........................
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A few of the signs:
“There is no Planet B,” read a sign held by Eva Gunther of Washington, D.C., as the protest assembled on the National Mall Saturday morning.
“Hang on EPA, the midterms are coming. 2018,” read another carried by Kathy Sommer of Stony Brook, N.Y.
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despite the final day of the NFL Draft event taking place on the Ben Franklin Parkway and the Penn Relays main events going on out in West Philly @ UP.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/science/Thousands-to-march-in-Philadelphia-Saturday-against-climate-change.html
A lot of folks downtown and expected high is 88F with all kinds of humidity. 
Nine-year-old Levi Draheim, center, shown on the Washington Metro, is among the 21 young people suing for a right to a future that isn't wrecked by climate change.
Nine-year-old Levi Draheim, center, shown on the Washington Metro, is among the 21 young people suing for a right to a future that isn't wrecked by climate change.
The kids suing Donald Trump are marching to the White House
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/29/politics/sutter-climate-kids-march-washington/index.html
By John D. Sutter, CNN
Updated 1:24 PM ET, Sat April 29, 2017
"John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion who focuses on climate change and social justice. Follow him on Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook or subscribe to his email newsletter. "
Washington (CNN)A 16-year-old walked up to the microphone.
"The state of the planet is unraveling all around us because of our addiction to fossil fuels," Xiuhtezcatl Martinez said at the steps of the US Supreme Court this week. "For the last several decades, we have been neglecting the fact that this is the only planet that we have and that the main stakeholders in this issue (of climate change) are the younger generation. Not only are the youth going to be inheriting every problem that we see in the world today -- after our politicians have been long gone -- but our voices have been neglected from the conversation.
"Our politicians are no longer representing our voices."
So, what's a voiceless kid to do?
How about sue President Donald Trump and his administration -- and then march to the White House?
Martinez is one of 21 young people taking Trump and members of his administration to federal court over inaction on global warming. On Saturday, several of these "climate kid' plaintiffs -- the youngest is 9 -- will walk alongside the chanting and sign-pumping adults at the March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington. That demonstration is a call for a clean energy revolution, and it's expected to draw thousands. Perhaps fittingly, local forecasts call for potentially record-setting temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Demonstrators plan to converge on the White House.
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