Hundreds of Marches, Picketes and Cleanup Events are Taking Place Across the Us in the Run-Up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as Environmental and Climate Groups Step Up Resistance to the Trump Administration’s Authoritarianism and Its “War on the Planet”.
A Fortnight after Wave of Actions to Demand the Right to Live Free, Healthy Lives.
In New York, Thousands of People Gatherd in LowER Manhattan on Sature for the “Hands of Migurst March” Endorsed by Dozens of Climate and Migrant Justice Groups, Calling for IMMIGration and Customs Enforce The Two Movements Convert Amid Trump’s Crackdown on Migrants and Embrace of Fossil Fuels – Which Will Drive Further Climate Collaps and Forced Migration.
Meanwhile in Milwaukee, a Stop the Cuts Marish Organized by Indivisible And 50501 Called Out Republican Lawmakers Backing the Unpreatedented Cuts to Healthcare, Eduction, Environmental Protects and Climate Funding.
“Trump is Attacking Migrants and the Planet by Aligning HimSelf with Big Oil and Erooding hard Won Protections. Connected Isues, “SAID Renata Pumarol, The DePuty Director of the Climate Organizing Hub, Which Coordinated the New York Marrach. “As We Fight The Authoritarianism of Trump, Climate Groups Need to Be Part Of
Trump and His Billionaire Mega-Donor Elusk Have Directed the Dismantling of Federal Offices that Overse Clean Air, Drinking Wateer, National Parks and Forests, Conservation, Climate Smart Farming, And Environmental Justice at Dizying Speed, as well as pussing thrive masse layafs at Core CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE CORE COE Management Agency (Fema), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Forest Service.
Meanwhile, regalatory standards for fossil Fuels, Petrochemical Plants, Mining and Other Polluting Industries Have Been Slashed – Along with an unprecedented Crackdown on Free Speech, Migrants and Universities.
Trump is also Rumoured to be Mulling An Executive Order that Removes Tax-Exempt Status for Some Climate Groups, Whiche Couelf Provasting for Smaller Grassroots Organizations. Meanwhile the White House is also pussing Environmental Protection Investments.
The Response from the Environmental and Climate Movement to the Trump Agenda Has, Until Now, Been Mostly Confined to the COURTS, With An Array of Lawsuits Challenge Everyth from Mass Layoffs, Suspended Environmental Justice Funds and the Eracure of Climate Change from Federal Goovernment Websites.
According to some Advocates, The Resistance on the Streets Had Been Somewhat Underwhelle – In Part Download to Shock at the Scale and Pace of Trump’s Attacks, as well as esctions by some Green Groups to Stay Apologically to Appness Funders and the Administration. Protest fatigue, they said, mayor has played a role, given that the social upsings in response to the muctor of george floyd and ISRAEL’s War on Gaza, Whiche Has Killed More Than Than 50,000 Palestinians, has leed to little Sustained polyitical Change.
Now, Three Months Inso Major Demands: to Defend Workers and Democry; Lower Costs for Communities and End Handws for Corporss and Billionaires; And maike pollutes Pay.
“The Mobilizations… Are the Start of Something: a wave from below with Winnable DEMANDS to meet and Inspire People where they are,“ said kaniela ing, the National Director of the Green New Deal Network, a Coalition of Frontline Communities, Labor Organizers, and Climate Activists. “Rallies, Protests, Clean-Ups… RISING UP Takes Many Forms, and It all helps, as we need consistent Mass Non-#coperration to file Against Authoritarianism and Ensure A Livable World.”
On Tuesday, The Planet Over Profit and #teslatAtedown Coalition Will Picket The New York Home of Billionaire James Murdoch, a Tesla Board Member. The Trump Mega-Donor ELON MUSK’s Electric Vehicle Company Has Facked Allegations of Air and Water Pollution Around Its Factories in the Us, “and Becuse The Priest No Greater Threat to Oour Ability to Live Rich, Dignified Lives on A Safe, Stable Planet Than The Trump/Musk Regime, “According to Organisers.
In Michigan, Jewish Organizers Are Running a Phone Bank to Turn Out Climate and Environmental Voters AHEAD of the 6 May Municipal Elections. In Duluth, Minnesota, Traditional Ojibwe Blessings for Mother Earth Will Open An Event Featureing Students Speareding Efforts to Install Solar Energy in Local Schools and Environmental Scientists on the Need to Protect the Local EPA Water Lab.
This Year’s Earth Day, Whiche Includes Clima Education in Schools and Universitys, Beach-Clean Ups, and Tree Planting in the Us and Globally, is the 55th, Butals to Trump, it is like no other.
The First Earth Day Took Place on 22 April 1970, when 20 million America Participated in Nationswide Events, Protests and Teach-ns about Policy, The Loss of Wildlife and Pillaging of Natural Resources – Bringing ToGether Dispareate Issues Under the Broad banner of what then became the US Environmental Movement.
This was followed with a camera to OOST 12 Members of Christs with Terrible Environmental Voting Records in the Midterms, with Seven of the So-Called Dirty Dozen Incumbents Lorseing them SEATS – Including the PowerFUL Chair of the Public Works Comitie.
The Success Sent Shockwaves Across Washington, and a month later, Christs Passed the Clean Air Act by Annwharming Majority, Followed by Slew of Laws that Formed the Bedrock of Environmental Protects Including The Clean Water, Endangered Species, and National Marine Sanctuaries Actions – and Richard Nixon Created the EPA.
“For About Six Years the Environmental Movement was Unsoppable, as we pussed to make the world a healthy play for humans and all Diversity of Life. There’s Always Been a Pendulum In America Politics But Nothing Like the Assault on the Environment – and Social Security, Eduction, Health and Economy – We See Today, “SAID Denis Hayes, The Organizer of the First Earth. Day.
“In 2026 we will go to organize agressively for the electronic, but this day day is about pearls with shared Values coming to make a look for Local solutions, some Introspice on What We Did Wrong that Allowed Trump to get elected, and finding strategies on How to Overcome Him. ”
A new Review of 50 Recent Studies Found that Protests Tend to Sare Media Coverage and Public Opinion Toward the Climate Cause – Even when Disruptive tacts are used. The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Researsers Found Found that Collection Action Canal Shift People’s Voting Behavior. In One Study in Germany, The Green Party Received Propertality Grist Reported.
The GNDN and the Sunrise Movement, a Youth-Led Climate Justice Group, Were Among Those that Campaned to Secure the Infield Reducience and Investmenture Investment and Jobs Act in 2021 and 2022-No. Under Threat by Trump’s Pro-Fossil Fuel, Anti-Climate Action Agenda.
“Just Three Months INTO The Trump Pressidness, The Damage has already Been Catastrophic,“ Said Aru Shiney-Ajay, The Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement. “This is every day, we stand united in Defiance of their great and fighter for a future that prioritizes people and the planet over profits.”
