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Reuters
Hundreds of protesters marched through New York City's financial district on Monday and blocked streets near the stock exchange to denounce Wall Street's role in raising money for businesses that contribute to climate change.Protesters stopped traffic on Broadway south of the New York Stock Exchange. Three people were arrested.
The demonstration, called Flood Wall Street, came on the heels of Sunday's international day of action that brought 310,000 people to the streets of New York City in what activists was said was the largest protest ever held on climate change.
Sunday's turnout was about triple that of the previous biggest, a Copenhagen demonstration five years ago.
The Guardian
Hundreds of people gathered in New York City’s financial district on Monday, many with the intent of getting arrested as an act of civil disobedience to bring attention to the perils of climate change.Flood Wall Street demonstrators, primarily dressed in blue to represent climate change-induced flooding, marched to New York City’s financial center to “highlight the role of Wall Street in fueling the climate crisis,” according to organizers.
While the day started off peacefully, tensions mounted in the early evening, with the New York Police Department using pepper spray on a group of demonstrators. At least one person had been arrested on Monday afternoon, though the NYPD said it did not yet have official reports on the arrest numbers.
The demonstration comes a day ahead of the United Nations climate summit and follows Sunday’s People’s Climate March – which saw what organizers estimated was 310,000 people marching in New York City, and tens of thousands of others in 150 countries across the world, demonstrating in an effort to put pressure on world leaders to act now to slow the damaging effects of climate change.
Al Jazeera America
Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of New York City on Sunday in a noisy march that organizers said was meant to sound the climate alarm, with participants blowing trumpets and beating drums as church bells pealed and synagogue shofar horns echoed across Manhattan on a day of massive worldwide protests demanding action to stop global warming.Protests had been planned in more than 100 cities around the world ahead of a United Nations climate summit set to take place in New York on Tuesday, probably the last chance world leaders will have to pledge carbon cuts or other action aimed at stemming the worst effects of global warming before the negotiation of an international climate agreement next year in Paris.
For many, the People's Climate March in New York was also about income inequality and other pitfalls they ascribed to unregulated capitalism — and linked to the climate change issue.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Katie Price didn’t wave a sign on Sunday as she marched down Santa Rosa Avenue with more than 100 other people to raise awareness about climate change. Instead, she pushed a stroller carrying her 6-month-old daughter.“I’ve always felt passionate about climate change,” Price said. “But having her increased my level of fear.”
Worrying that her daughter will have to face the effects of an altered climate, like prolonged drought, flooding and food shortages, prompted her to march, she said, walking with her parents, Nancy and Kevin Conway, as well as a friend she recruited.
“I think this is the time to act.”
She and other Sonoma County residents were participating in one of a series of events large and small, dubbed the People’s Climate March, held around the world two days in advance of a United Nations climate summit in New York. That’s when more than 120 world leaders will convene for a meeting aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015.
The rallies are meant to pressure global leaders to agree on meaningful steps, such as reducing carbon emissions, that would help prevent the planet’s temperature from rising further.
Huffington Post
The People's Climate March on Sunday was perhaps the largest climate change protest in history. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of New York City. Celebrities and high-profile politicians were among the marchers. The protest was a huge topic on social media.All in all, it was a perfect opportunity for some of America's biggest news organizations to cover the topic of climate change, something that usually gets either ignored or badly handled. For Sunday talk show hosts, there was even a nice political hook, since the march was pegged to a UN summit that President Obama will be attending.