Logistics
What you need to know
Thousands of people are coming from all over the country to participate in the Capitol Climate Action. We are unable to coordinate transportation and housing, but we do have a new message board that you can use to connect with other participants. If you can get yourself to Washington DC, make sure you RSVP — we’ll be sending regular email updates about the action, as well as operating an SMS/cell phone text message loop the weekend before to keep everyone plugged in! Just send a text from your cell phone to: 40404 with the message: “follow capitolclimate” (without quotes).
We are also encouraging all participants in the CCA to attend a non-violence training and action briefing. These are happening all over the country, including all weekend before the event. We will have a Convergence/Organizing Center in DC open all weekend for trainings and orientations - located at The Warehouse Theater, 1021 7th St NW WDC 20001. We are also working on Action Guides which will be posted online soon and also in print, and handed out all weekend before the action.
Action details
The initial rally for the Capitol Climate Action will meet on March 2nd at 1:00pm in Spirit of Justice Park (C St. SW and Capitol St SE, two blocks west of Capitol South Metro — view map). We’ll be staging at Spirit of Justice Park for a brief rally, then moving towards the Capitol Power Plant facility. We expect thousands of people to participate, with large numbers risking arrest in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. Many more will choose not to engage in civil disobedience, and will be part of the overall event and rally.
What Do I Need to Bring?
We want to ensure a safe space for everyone, and ask all participants to maintain civility and respect for the diverse issues and communities that are a part of this action, and to follow the Action Guidelines. Please make sure you bring a government-issued ID - a driver’s license or passport. We also suggest bringing $50 - $100 - which is the typical amount DC police usually charge for activist-related civil disobedience to release activists from jail and dismiss their criminal charges. Nothing promised - but, often for many activists, bringing the money speeds up release time and resolves criminal charges.
And in the spirit of the Civil Rights movement, we’re also asking people to help confound our detractors by dressing to impress.
There is some parking nearby in paid lots, but taking Metro to the Capitol South stop will be easiest. We will have greeters directing people from Metro all morning.
Related events
Feb 26th - March 1 — Global Exchange is organizing folks to travel to Washington D.C. by train. The trip will begin in Emeryville, California but you can join them anywhere along the line. They will be passing through Sacramento, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Denver, CO; Kansas City, KS; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; and Pittsburgh, PA. Learn more here.
Feb 27th - March 2nd — Energy Action Coalition will host Power Shift 2009, bringing 10,000 young people to Washington DC to hold our elected officials accountable for rebuilding our economy and reclaiming out future through bold climate and clean energy policy. While separate events, many participants from the Capitol Climate Action will be attending Power Shift, and many participants (and organizations!) organizing Power Shift are supporting the Capitol Climate Action. The CCA will also have information and trainings available at Power Shift!
March 1st — Chesapeake Climate Action Network will be hosting a speaking event with Bill McKibben, Wendell Berry, and Gus Speth - all participants in the Capitol Climate Action! Tickets for this are going fast! Get more info and buy tickets here.
March 2nd — Power Shift lobby day on Capitol Hill. Folks can attend both events, they are in close proximity.
Also on March 2nd, the Capitol Climate Action will be preceded by a Prayer Vigil. People of all faiths are welcome to take advantage of this opportunity to offer prayers for the success of the action and to call upon their spiritual resources to ground them in this important work. The Prayer Vigil will occur at the staging area for the action, Spirit of Justice Park (C St. SW and Capitol St SE, two blocks west of Capitol South Metro — view map) from 12:30 to 1 pm. Click here for more information.
We are also planning a celebration after the action - stay tuned for details!
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People in the U.S. needs to come to Mingo County WV and see the flooding mountain top removel has done where we live the coal company took out over 90 million tons of coal but it is not called strip mining because they are fixing a so called highway they get the coal free tax free plus the state pays them over $90 million for a 15 mile strip then they came up with an idea to get more coal free so they said lets put a school back there so they took over a local school board so the state could close four high schools that are good for another 25 years and set with in 4 miles of fire,police and ambulance and the new school will be 10 miles from the main highway with nothing else around we have no where to turn the WV attorney general is the attorney for the state board of education and is married to the asst. state school superintendent and the Govanor put his wife in as a state board member and his cousin in the state board and he handles the money to build the schools with and it goes much deeper with lots of federal money going somewhere in this county just not for us then after the May 9 2009 floods FEMA came in and poured salt in the peoples wounds with we can't help you
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