Actions you might have missed
Many groups across the globe have been standing up and speaking out for climate action. Here are some actions you may have missed from the weekend:
In Washington, D.C., activists from the group Rise St. James held a funeral procession in memory of those who lost their lives to cancer and other illnesses that have been plaguing residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana which has been dubbed “Cancer Alley.” The majority-Black area has been deemed a so-called “sacrifice zone” and counts some 200 petrochemical plants over an 80-mile stretch of the Mississippi river. This is activist and Goldman Prize winner Sharon Lavigne, speaking in front of the White House yesterday. Sharon Lavigne: “Cancer is taking over our lives, in the river parishes, down “cancer alley” and throughout the whole Gulf South. So we’re asking President Biden to declare St. James Parish, “cancer alley” — to declare this an emergency. If he will not declare this as an emergency we are going to die. We are already dying.”
"What better way to raise awareness around one of the scariest issues in the world that we are facing currently than to have an event on Halloween," said organizer Giselle Herzfeld with 350 Denver. The climate action nonprofit hosting a "climate banker zombie crawl" through Downtown Denver, dressing up as wall street bankers turned zombies from an addiction to fossil fuels
"Now we are roaming the streets of Denver from bank to bank in search of fossil fuel profits," says Herzfeld.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/26/headlines/activists_call_on_biden_to_declare_emergency_in_louisianas_cancer_alley, https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/climate-activists-roam-denver-dressed-zombies-protest-fossil-fuel-financing/