Behind a blue banner studying “ACT NOW,” greater than 100 individuals marched by way of Boston Friday as a part of an Earth Day demonstration to demand the state approve laws banning fossil fuels.
The Boston chapter of Extinction Insurrection, a local weather advocacy group, organized the late afternoon march from Copley Sq. to the State Home. As they marched by way of town, protesters chanted “Rise up, get down, there’s a local weather disaster on this city,” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, fossil fuels have gotten to go” and “When sacred lands are beneath assault, what can we do? Arise, combat again.”
Alongside the way in which, they stopped in entrance of companies dubbed “unhealthy gamers” that profit from fossil gas industries. On Beacon Hill, they stood in entrance of the State Home, calling on legislators to decide to web zero emissions by 2030, stated James Comiskey, Extinction Insurrection organizer.
“We will’t actually be celebrating Earth Day when there’s fossil gas corruption taking place, when the state is just not doing what it’s imagined to be doing to manage all these establishments which might be enabling fossil gas infrastructure,” Cominskey stated.
Throughout speeches on the State Home, demonstrators fell to the ground for a “die-in” to exhibit the unfavorable consequence of the local weather disaster after which obtained as much as dance to Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” to spotlight the necessity for motion. It was a vigorous scene with automobiles honking in assist as they handed by.
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Cecily Miller, 61, of Cambridge, stated the mixture of road theater and music brings braveness and hope within the local weather disaster.
“Once we come along with such an exquisite variety of individuals of all totally different ages, totally different pursuits and have that feeling of solidarity and connection, it’s so highly effective,” Miller added.
Evan Tao, 17, of Cambridge, stated in a speech that Massachusetts presently has a authorities that doesn’t characterize the 90% of residents that assist local weather motion when the governor has solely dedicated to web zero emissions by 2050, which can be too late, he stated.
“If you would like your youngsters to reside in a greater world, if you wish to cease the continuing oil apocalypse, in case you suppose that fossil gas divestment should occur at present,” Tao stated. “Right here on the State Home is the place we are able to make a change.”
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