New York Peoples Climate March Arrangements - LATEST UPDATE! We are just 4 days away! This post includes information on: 1. Events surrounding the march 2. Day of Text Alert 3. Day of Social Media 4. Day of Volunteers 5. March Lineup 6. Moment of Silence to Moment of Alarm (12:58 - 1:00) pm 7. End of March Peoples Block Party 8. Human Hotel *Events Surrounding the March To find out about events before and after the march, visit this calendar peoplesclimate.org/events/ *Day of March, Text Alert To stay up to date about happenings the day of the march, please text the word march to 97779. After doing this, you will receive updates about the march. *Day of March, Social Media Are you social media savvy and will be marching with your hub on Sunday? We are looking for social media reporters from each contingent who can help ensure that their hub is represented in the social media for the day. Its really simple - contact Thelma ([email protected], whos overseeing social media) and tell her your social media name [on Twitter or Instagram], which contingency you are with, and if your hub/contingency is using a specific hashtag. We want everyone to use the main hashtag #PeoplesClimate - but if you have your own too, let us know. Then - the day of the march take photos, talk with people and share on Twitter and Instagram stories of your group. The PCM social media team will be monitoring it all and helping to promote too. We encourage everyone who wants to, to share on social media during the march. Anyone who is posting on social media should use the hashtag #peoplesclimate with their post. We need Day of March Volunteers! If you know folks who would like to volunteer, they need to attend at least one training. Please ask folks to sign up here: https://docs.google/forms/d/1DPN4PuHTJ49trPS6ZGRhZMMljdf_T2LPWFC6krFWij8/viewform Or just show up to one of these trainings: · Wednesday, 9/17 6:00-8:30pm- TWU Local 100 located at 195 Montague Street, New York, NY· Thursday, 9/18 6:00-8:30pm- TWU Local 100 located at 195 Montague Street, New York, NY· Friday, 9/19 6:00-8:30pm- TWU Local 100 located at 195 Montague Street, New York, NY· Saturday, 9/20 11:30am-1:30pm- CWA Local 1180 located at 6 Harrison St. New York, NY *March Lineup: You can find the contingent meet up locations here: peoplesclimate.org/lineup/ 1. Individual groups and organizations are not assigned a meet up location. Instead, they will find the contingent that their group falls under and gather there (for instance, instead of listing specific universities, campus groups will gather under the “Colleges and Universities” contingent). 2. Each contingent is given a range of blocks within their theme to meet. It is up to the contingent organizers (and groups within contingents) to identify a specific location where they would like to gather, and bring visual flags, banners or art that will identify them to march attendees who are looking to join their contingent. Please do not bring wood, as it is not allowed on the march. 3. If you would like to join a specific contingent, we urge you to arrive early. Once city blocks fill up, you will be asked to join the march at 86th street. We ask people to be flexible, as this plan is subject to change. The march is going to be great wherever you are! 4. If you dont know where your group fits in, please email [email protected]. For more information please visit the FAQ https://docs.google/document/d/1PXv54n8r6kkO0A2ijynwGAQcAVoNvsGIxzdNjubr_0o/edit *Moment of Silence to Moment of Alarm @12:58pm The march is being led by frontline communities and indigenous groups from around the continent and the world, who are many of the first victims of climate change, and at 12:58, we’re having a moment of silence to honor those on the front lines. When you see people start linking hands above their heads, that’s the sign the moment of silence is beginning. Also, please text ALARM to the number 97779. By doing this, you will receive a reminder about the moment of silence. At 1:00pm we are going to end that moment of silence with a great, big noise—sounding the climate alarm that has gone ignored for too long. You’ll know it’s time to ring that alarm and make as much noise as you can when you hear 32 marching bands blowing their horns and church bells ring from around the city (so bring your own noisemakers). *End of March: Peoples Block Party The end of the march will be a Peoples Climate block party! This is a chance for everyone to walk around and visit with other themes. You are welcome to join the block party even if you can’t make it to the march itself! We will be connecting, organizing, and celebrating this historic moment. Make sure you leave with more connections, information and perspectives than you came with. Are you a beekeeper? Are you from Philly? Are you working to end fossil fuels? Whatever your community, issue, location or skill you will be able to get plugged-in so you can continue working together after September 21st to keep building this movement. We invite folks to self organize performances that engage participants, presentations about the art from their theme. Each theme will have a convergence area. There will not be tables - rather we will have an area in which people can gather and network. We invite folks to self organize engaging activities - interactive performances, presentations about your art, story sharing, canvass, pass out swag, ask people to take action, sit in a circle and convene a discussion, do a ritual and more! If you want to invite people to join your work or your hub, please bring something big and visual to identify who you are. You can use the same art, flags, etc that you use to identify your contingents at the beginning of the march. You can also bring clipboards to collect contact info or any other mobile way to share information. Within each gathering area there will be the big art pieces from the theme, the banner for the theme, chairs for those with accessibility needs, and a lot of people to meet! In addition to the convergence areas, there will also be two stages with music only (no speakers), a marching band performance area, an area of food trucks, the climate ribbon ritual, and an area of port a potties. Food Trucks will park on 37th street and 38th street. They CANNOT block the taxi garages on 37th street. If you intend to bring a food truck, please contact Diane [email protected]. Floats will not be able to park on 11th avenue. We will have more information soon about where they will be. *Human Hotel If you are a New Yorker and have space on your couch or floor please check out the Human Hotel where you can sign up to host folks from out of town. https://humanhotel peoplesclimate.org/faith/housing-for-the-peoples-climate-march/ See you on the streets! Tammy
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:16:24 +0000
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