A coalition of more than 100 organizations is planning to protest in September during the United Nations General Assembly, linking climate work, migratory justice and gender equality.
While world leaders in New York City are close to the United Nations General Assembly in September, thousands of activists will meet through a group of social movements for what they hope to be the greatest collective stability since the protests “not kings” in June.
the “Make billionaires to pay“The planned on September 20 will unite climate activists, defenders of immigrant rights and women’s rights advocates in their demands for climate and social justice. Climate movement researchers say the coalition reflects an increased shift towards harsh mobilization, while stopping climate work at the federal level. 350.organd Climate defendersand Disis rises and moves (Tabla) and Women’s march.
The main protest is planned in New York, with a simultaneous crowd expecting all over the American cities.
“I hope we can intimidate Trump and his billionaire allies,” said Renata Pomarol, Deputy Director of Climate Defender, a multi -generational and multi -generation climate organizing center. “We need to show that we are organized, and that there is more than us.”
The anniversary of the anniversary of the two -year anniversary of “A march to finish fossil fuelsOrganizers say that the risks for protest in this year’s climate week seem to be 75,000 people in New York during the Climate Week 2023. The risks for the Climate Week protest this year are now above.
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While the protest in 2023 focused on the surrender of Biden’s era on the fossil fuel industry-from the willow project in Alaska to allow digging on public lands-the organizers say that the upcoming demonstrations will focus on confronting Trump and his billionaire allies to accelerate the climate crisis and authoritarian policy.
More than 100 organizations call for climate work, immigrant justice, economic and sexual equality, which represents a flagrant transformation of a movement that has been criticized in the past of its traditional white white base. The organizers said that more groups are expected to join the demonstration.
“We are so much that the threat is so much that it is not useful to focus on one case at the same time,” said Tamika Middleton, chief strategy official in the women’s march, a feminist group born from a group crowd during the first period of Trump. “We need to take a look at how these problems intersect with each other.”
Bomarol said the climate movement has achieved success in linking climate inaction to broader systems of economic inequality. She referred to “Make the pollutants pay“The campaign, which calls for compensation from high emissions industries. The effort has contributed to the approval of the high climate legislation in Vermont and New York, while considering bills similar in several other states.
“The reason we are targeting billionaires in this march is that we see the increasing focus of economic and political power,” Bomarol said. “It is class fascism and climatic chaos, and they have the resources necessary to finance a sustainable future.”
“We are so much that the threat is so much that it is not useful to have a mobilization that focuses on one case simultaneously.”
– Tamika Middleton, the woman’s march
By the sustainable future, Pomarol said it means time not only a warming that is moved by fossil fuels, but also guarantees housing security, health care and increasing social stocks. Coalition leaders say the battle goes beyond economic stocks and fossil fuel to displacement and exploitation that follows climate chaos.
“The billionaires are the ones who pay the climate crisis and benefit from the climate crisis. “This includes the benefit of the displacement itself.”
Societies in the global south contributed to the least in fossil fuel emissions, but they face some of the most destructive consequences, forcing many to migrate. According to the United Nations High Commissioner, 220 million People have been displaced due to climate change in the past decade. However, the majority moves within their homeland.
Kabalis said that those who migrate to the United States often face discrimination, exploitation and low -wage action.
Reports It also turns out that billionaire billionaire companies benefit directly from deportation, through monitoring technology and private prison technology contracts. Today, more than 90 percent Among those who are in private detention centers, according to the scores of access to records, which is an organization to collect data and research through the University of Sirkios.
Women and the broader coalition also want to show that feminism can play a major role in the climate justice movement. According to Middleton, when the woman’s march surveyed her base this year, climate change jumped to the top of the list of political priorities, which are crossed by reproductive rights and economics only.
“Women and children are incredible, and they are often affected by climate change,” said Middleton. Women face increasing risks during natural disasters, and they often leave the responsibilities of providing them with the heaviest burdens in their wake. She added that pollution is spread due to the fossil fuel industry, threatening reproductive health and children’s development.
Kevin said. Young, a co -history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amorest, The challenge of organizing the climate is that the damage caused by fossil fuels is often abstract or delayed for those who are not on the front lines of the crisis. Unlike the theft of wages, evacuation, or police violence, climate change can feel far away.
“To achieve the justice of the climate or any other social progress, we need alliances that link different forms of persecution,” Young said. He added that the climate movement is often effective when its demands link to the issues that people face every day – such as housing, racism, or gender inequality.
Dana Fischer, director of the Environment, Society and Equality Center at the American University, said that the climate movement has never worked in isolation from other movements, but in recent years, the climate movement has in particular good solidarity with other social movements and participating in the intersection.
The organizers hope to build this progress, but the construction of the coalition has not yet succeeded in combating fossil fuel building and increasing disparities.
“The construction of solidarity on the street cannot occur,” said Fischer. “The question is how do they actually work together, and what do they do alongside people output for one day?”
While the organizers understand that this protest will not reflect the tidal and the fixed islands of climate failure and increasing social disparities, they hope that this will be an entry point for those who want to become more political. Through training and education initiatives, the organizers hope that the participants will remain involved.
“Many people participating in these marches are completely new in political work,” Middleton said. “It is an invitation to ordinary people to participate in combating climate, fascist and other repression.”