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The People’s Climate March is expected to draw more than 200,000 people, all to make the statement that global action must be undertaken to drastically reduce carbon emissions. The film builds excitement for the march by interlacing behind the scenes clips of the amazing organizing work being done to make it all run smoothly with interviews of renowned climate activists. The organizers’ perspective on the march is reinforced by periodically counting down the days until September 21st, beginning 100 days out and ending with 14 to go.
One of the renowned activists who makes an appearance in “Disruption” is our own Senator Whitehouse. The Senator held his annual Energy and Environmental Leaders day, and we were able to pull him aside for a moment to get an exclusive video interview. Among other things we asked him why it’s important to go down to New York City. This is what he had to say:
Even if you know you can’t make it to the People’s Climate March and disregard the Senator’s invitation, I recommend watching the movie to get a sense of the scale of the movement we need to create in the coming decades in order to save civilization as we have known it. It requires unprecedented action, and it’s made more difficult by human psychology, which isn’t biologically designed to grapple with problems that emerge and must be resolved over generations. This challenge is acknowledged in “Disruption.” The theory in the film and behind the march itself is to get enough people onto the streets to reach a cultural tipping point, to find a place in our collective consciousness where we can plan for the long term and act accordingly.
We are closer to this tipping point than we realize, and each new pair of boots on the ground brings us a step closer. In New York and beyond, if we want to disrupt business as usual, we must be the disruption.
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The movie is close to an hour long, and afterward, we’ll have a discussion about what all of us can do together about this crucial issue.
The screening will prepare the way for the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21st, when a vast quantity of people will converge in New York City for what may become the largest climate march in history to date. As we march, reported world leaders will be attending the UN for a special summit on the climate crisis.
URI students will join with people from other schools, community organizations, unions and hundreds of other groups from across the country and around the world for this historic occasion. We’ll take to the streets to demand the the climate justice that is within our reach.
There will be buses departing from Kingston and Providence to New York City on September 20th (Providence only) and 21st, and returning on Sunday, the 21st.
Tickets will be $30 round trip, with low-income tickets available for $15. You can purchase your bus tickets here.
There also is an RI site for donations.
Please fill out this interest form if you are planning on attending the People’s Climate March.
The screening of Disruption is sponsored by:
Finally, here Sophie Robinson explains what motivates her to organize for the People’s Climate March:
… the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
(Bob Dylan’s Masters of War)
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