Just a quick note: The People’s Climate Mobilization is happening in DC on 4/29. 350Mass and other local orgs are getting buses (probably the lowest-carbon way to get there) from a number of places around Greater Boston. They’re on the red-eye schedule — leaving Friday night, getting there early Saturday morning; leaving DC Saturday night, getting back early Sunday am. (For me, that actually works perfectly.)
The word on locations, from an email from 350Mass’s Emily Kirkland:
Current drop-off / pick-up locations: based on ticket sales, it’s looking like Alewife, Franklin Village, Worcester, somewhere on the North Shore, Brookline, JP, downtown Boston, and possibly somewhere on the South Shore. No matter what, we will try to set up pick-ups and drop-offs that are reasonably convenient for almost everyone! More soon.
(I’ll be on an Alewife bus.)
Today is the last day you can get a ticket for $85. After today it goes up to $110.
Look, there’s a lot happening every day, as our government seems to be crumbling around us. But look at Trump’s proposed budget: The EPA suffers absolutely the worst cuts of anyone. And I’m afraid that because the EPA handles long-term, de-personalized risks and crises, that the current political juice of the Indivisibles, etc., will not rescue it from GOP devastation. But they deserve support, because they save lives and health too — very effectively!
We need political mobilization. We need bodies. We need voices and phone calls and signs and energy and all that. Please come to the march. Get your ticket.
Charley on the MTA says
SomervilleTom says
n/m
JimC says
I don’t even know who the climate leaders are in our caucus, in the way I know that Warren leads on taking on banks, and Ron Wyden leads on privacy. I’m not sure what that says.
Christopher says
n/t
JimC says
What’s he done lately? (Serious question, not throwing shade.)
Christopher says
…and it’s possible some of it flies under the radar since climate policy doesn’t seem to generate a lot of news. What I do remember is that a key reason I supported him when he first ran for Senate is that his record suggested that he would take on Big Oil in much the same way Warren takes on Big Finance. I was looking forward to MA boasting the ultimate Senate power couple against the most powerful special interests of our time.
Charley on the MTA says
Sheldon Whitehouse is a man on fire (huh). Brian Schatz from HI. Merkley from OR. Guessing that Kamala Harris (CA) will be. Less prominent but active are Klobuchar and Cantwell.
Markey has been the Little Red Hen on climate for literally decades. As for what he’s done lately … Well he’s in the minority, and yet last year he helped pass — yes, pass, with bipartisan support — a toxics bill.
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/udall-markey-durbin-announce-agreement-on-chemical-safety-reform-bill