This Weekend –Climate Action March
Butler is Hosting An event for the
Climate March-Oct 11
Save the Date:
Western PA’s Global Frackdown is set for
Saturday Oct 11 at Diamond Park in Butler, 2-5 PM.
Here is link to the website http://www.globalfrackdown.org/ Be there to welcome the Great March for Climate
Action on the Pennsylvania leg of its journey from LA to DC.
Here is link to Bill Moyers’ interview of one
of the marchers: http://billmoyers.com/episode/climate-change-next-generation/
Be
there for the launch of Pennsylvanians Against Fracking.
Bring your signs. Bring your banner. And BE THERE!
(More details to
come. Contact carolcutler3@msn.com if
you want to carpool to attend this event)
***The Great March for Climate Action –Event
in Butler
WHAT'S NEXT
FOR PITTSBURGH-AREA CLIMATE ACTIVISTS?
How about
this? Can you help make it happen?
The Great
March for Climate Action
Coming to Monroeville October 16. On March 1, 2014, hundreds of everyday
Americans set out from Los Angeles, CA, on a 3,000-mile walk to Washington,
D.C., with a goal of inspiring others from all walks of life to take action on
the climate crisis. The march has delivered to thousands of Americans the
message that urgent action is needed on climate change. Dozens of newspaper and
television reports have resulted. Thousands have marched for at least a day, with
a core group of 25-35 persons walking the entire distance. Thousands of
one-on-one conversations between Americans concerned about our future have
taken place. Songs around the campfire and sermons in church sanctuaries and
coalition-building gatherings have reverberated across the country.
The march will enter Pennsylvania on October 10, with
stops in Bessemer on Oct 10 at Maggie Henry's farm, Darlington (Oct 11) [with
an excursion that day to Butler, PA for a Global Frackdown rally], Freedom (Oct
12), Ben Avon (Oct 13), Pittsburgh, (Oct 14-15), Monroeville (Oct 16), South
Greensburg (Oct 17), Ligonier (Oct 18) and five other stops in PA before
exiting to Maryland on October 25th.
.
The marchers want nothing more than to be helpful in adding their voices and
bodies to the fights we have on our hands.
If you are interested in helping this march
amplify its impact as it comes through Pennsylvania, then let me know and I
will try to connect you with events along the Pennsylvania rout.
CONTACT: Stephen Cleghorn, Paradise Gardens
and Farm
jstephencleghorn@yahoo.com
or 814-932-6761
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Westmoreland County-From Father Survil
The Climate March is coming to Westmoreland County. Marchers
are leaving Monroeville October 17th and arriving at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, that
evening. They will gather with people on campus at The Reeves Theater from 6 to
9 pm. This is open to the public; admission is free. The marchers leave the
next morning, Oct 18th, to walk to Ligonier and meet with folk there that
evening.
Some 50 of them are in the
contingent. They are eager to have people join them along the way, if only for
a mile or two.
Recall
that over 300,000 participated in the People’s Climate March in New York City,
September 21, 2014. ( www.350.org )
Although they bring tents and
sleeping gear to camp out by night, we
are seeking folk willing to offer a few of them hospitality in their home for a
single evening, be it in the Greensburg
area or Ligonier.
We are also seeking a venue for a
Catholic Climate Covenant speaker
http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/a Catholic
Charities and Catholic Relief Services-approved initiative. He speaks at Duquesne University during
the day of October 15th and could speak in Greensburg the evening of October
14th or 16th as well as in college or high school classes during the day.
Peace and all good things,
Fr. Bernard Survil,
Westmoreland Reception Team helper
Phone: 724-850-1616,
Fr.Survil@EmbraceallOfLife.us/
