For three nights and four days we rolled across America on the People’s Climate Train from Emeryville, CA to New York City. We were 170 activists, ages 18 to 82, traveling to the People’s Climate March during the UN Climate Summit to demand that our world leaders ensure a safe, stable future for all of us on our one and only planet. Some of us also Flooded Wall Street.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr and Lakeshore Limited trains were turned into a training, organizing, and sharing conference-on-the-rails. Presentations took place all day on wide-ranging topics - Divest from Fossil Fuels, Climate and Diet, the Rights of Nature, and System Change Not Climate Change. The journey was amazing.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr and Lakeshore Limited trains were turned into a training, organizing, and sharing conference-on-the-rails. Presentations took place all day on wide-ranging topics - Divest from Fossil Fuels, Climate and Diet, the Rights of Nature, and System Change Not Climate Change. The journey was amazing.
The gathering of various organizations, ideas, and people on the train and at the march is one of the indicators of the urgency that the climate crisis has reached. The largest US climate march ever, 400,000 people in NYC and 2,646 other solidarity events in 162 countries, sounded the alarm.
Back home there is much work to be done and you are needed to help create the changes required to put people, peace, and our planet over profits. If you are not already involved I encourage you to join a climate organization in your community. If you’re in San Diego join us at sandiego350.org. Help create the Great Transition.
As a photographer I wanted to create portraits to capture the diversity of people and ideas on the train. Time limited the portraits to 101 of the 170 people. I felt Gillian Wearing’s photographic approach in Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992-3) was a good way for individuals to express what motivates their activism. The other photographs aim to provide a sense of life on the train and the amazing destination experiences – the March and Flood Wall Street.
A heartfelt thank you to my fellow travelers for participating in the portraits and other images. September, 2014
Back home there is much work to be done and you are needed to help create the changes required to put people, peace, and our planet over profits. If you are not already involved I encourage you to join a climate organization in your community. If you’re in San Diego join us at sandiego350.org. Help create the Great Transition.
As a photographer I wanted to create portraits to capture the diversity of people and ideas on the train. Time limited the portraits to 101 of the 170 people. I felt Gillian Wearing’s photographic approach in Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992-3) was a good way for individuals to express what motivates their activism. The other photographs aim to provide a sense of life on the train and the amazing destination experiences – the March and Flood Wall Street.
A heartfelt thank you to my fellow travelers for participating in the portraits and other images. September, 2014
More information
The activist train was organized by Valerie Love at the Center for Biological Diversity in partnership with Buddhist Global Relief, Global Exchange, 350.org, Sierra Club, Avaaz and many regional grassroots groups. Organizations represented on the train (in no particular order):
For a full list of train sessions go to: peoplesclimatetrain.weebly.com/descriptions-of-train-sessions.html |
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