Unite for Climate March – ICEJ Contingent Honors Climate Dead

As you probably know by now, SanDiego350 and almost 50 other orgs including ICEJ are planning a Unite for Climate March to be held on Saturday, May 3rd at 11 AM at Waterfront Park. Thousands of San Diegans will stand up for climate action, climate justice, and a healthy sustainable future for everyone – and fight against destructive policies that put profits over people. The urgency of climate action has never been more pressing so I hope that you can attend the March and help us get the word out to your faith community (here is a toolkit with blurbs, flyers, etc. Many thanks in advance for your help!!).

ICEJ will have a special contingent in the March honoring and mourning our climate dead. In the past fifty years approximately two million peoplehave died from climate related events and without significant reductions in carbon emissions many, many more will die in the years to come. The Trump Administration is moving in the wrong direction by embracing fossil fuels and gutting climate science. So we will process with a cardboard coffin and climate death signs (see photo above), dressed in black and mostly silent.  We would love to have you and members of your community join us. We meet at the southwest corner of Waterfront Park (at the intersection of N. Harbor Drive and W. Ash St.) between 10:30 and 10:45 AM. Please reach out to your faith community and recruit members for this – and we welcome groups with their own faith community banner!  

For more information or if you have questions, contact Phil Petrie at phil@icejsd.org.