On April 29 a broad movement of environmental and climate justice, labor, student, and social change organizations are coming to Washington, D.C. to demonstrate a continued and growing public demand for action to combat climate disruption.
Donald Trump and his band of climate deniers in his Cabinet and in the Congress want to turn the country back to a reliance on climate disrupting dirty fossil fuels by killing the Clean Power Plan and the Paris Climate Accord. But the people in this country and around the world aren’t buying it, and are prepared to take to the streets to demand continued action on climate change and safe and healthy communities for all.
Join us in taking a stand for our communities and climate. Show our leaders the strength of this movement. To make change happen, we need everyone.
We also know that there is much work to be done beyond April 29th. A “Table” of Baltimore organizations has formed to use the People’s Climate March as an opportunity to energize and engage Baltimoreans in the justice work that has been underway in the city for decades. We’re coming together for this one day, but we are also building new relationships along the way, and while we’re focusing on the 29th, we know there is a major up hill battle going on afterward and right now too!
THE BALTIMORE CONTINGENT WILL LINE UP FOR THE MARCH (9AM - 12PM) AT 4TH ST NW & MADISON DRIVE ON THE NATIONAL MALL!
Click here for a map with directions from RFK and tentative march route.
Event Details
What: March to fight for our communities and climate.
When: Saturday, April 29 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (buses leaving Baltimore at 8am and returning by 7pm)
Where: Baltimore meetup at 4th St NW & Madison Drive in Washington, D.C. Click a link below to sign up for a bus near you!
Cost: $10 - $25 with free, community-supported tickets available on each bus.
For General Information: www.peoplesclimate.org
Getting to the March <<Ticket Sales Are CLOSED (unless noted on individual page)>>
We have buses leaving from several locations across Baltimore. Click one of the following links to learn more and buy tickets:
1315 Madison Ave., 21217 Hosted By: Communities United
2301 Gwynns Falls Pkwy., 21217 Hosted by: Residents Against the Tunnels
East Baltimore at Orleans Public Library
1303 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD 21231
Hampden, Baltimore
3910 Keswick Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211
Towson at MD Presbyterian Church
1105 Providence Rd, Baltimore, MD 21286
Central Baltimore at Open Works Baltimore
1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202
Northwest Baltimore at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
7401 Park Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD 21208
Morgan State University Student Bus
Anyone taking a bus should plan to either walk 45 minutes from RFK stadium to the National Mall for the march, or purchase a $5 Metro card via the pages linked above. Discounted metro cards are available for those in need of community support.
Individuals and groups are also encouraged to take the MARC train to Union Station, which is near the start of the march at 3rd Street NW & Pennsylvania Ave.
Discounted MARC tickets are now sold out. Please visit your local MARC station to buy your own for $16 round trip in advance of the march.
Any additional questions? Email Seth Bush at seth.bush@sierraclub.org.
Plan for the Day
Pick up at your bus location or get on Metro
Arrive in DC between 9am - 9:30am (Buses arrive at RFK Stadium)
Bus riders take Metro or walk from RFK stadium to the National Mall. (Stadium-Armory stop to Federal Center SW stop on Blue/Silver line, purchase a metro card using the green "tickets" button to the right.)
Meet the Baltimore Contingent at 4th St NW & Madison Drive to line up for the march
March kicks off between 11am - 12:30pm
Collective action: Circle the Whitehouse
Gather on the National Mall
Bus riders Return to RFK Stadium, others find their own way home
Buses depart RFK Stadium: 5:00 PM
Return to Baltimore by 7:00 PM
See map of Baltimore Contingent meeting location here: http://bit.ly/baltpcmmap
See more logistical details and the march route here: https://peoplesclimate.org/logistics
Make Art & Signs for the March!
We're hosting several art builds in the lead-up to the march and have created an art guide to support additional workshops or anyone who wants to make art/signs for the Baltimore Contingent.
All art builds will take place at Black Cherry Puppet Theater (1115 Hollins St, Baltimore).
Tuesday, April 25 6-9pm
Wednesday, April 26 6-9pm
Questions? Please contact Taylor Smith-Hams at taylor@chesapeakeclimate.org and Valeska Populoh at valeskapopuloh@yahoo.com and one of us will get back to you. Please put “Baltimore PCM Art” in the subject line.
Pre-March Event on 4/26: Temperature Rising
RSVP on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1851629435076419/
More About the Baltimore People's Climate Movement Table
The purpose of the Baltimore Table is to “build the New Energy & Economic Future in Baltimore by addressing environmental racism”.
The April 29th People's Climate March is a first step in many we'll be taking together toward climate justice for Baltimore. We are continually honing and defining this purpose as we explore working together.
Our platform is aligned with the National People’s Climate Movement:
Directly and rapidly reduce greenhouse gas and toxic pollution to successfully combat climate change and improve public health
Mandate a transition to an equitable and sustainable New Energy and Economic Future that limits the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
Provide a Just Transition for communities and workers negatively impacted by the shift to a New Energy and Economic Future that includes targeted economic opportunity and provides stable income, health care, and education
Demand that every job pays a wage of at least $15 an hour, protects workers, and provides a good standard of living, pathways out of poverty, and a right to organize
Ensure that in the New Energy and Economic Future, investments are targeted to create pathways for low-income people and people of color to access good jobs and improve the lives of communities of color, indigenous peoples, low-income people, small farmers, women, and workers.
Make bold investments in the resilience of states, cities, tribes, and communities that are threatened by climate change; including massive investments in infrastructure systems from water, transportation, and solid waste to the electrical grid and safe, green building and increasing energy efficiency that will also create millions of jobs in the public and private sector
Reinvest in a domestic industrial base that drives towards an equitable and sustainable New Energy and Economic Future, and fight back against the corporate trade-induced global race to the bottom
- Market and policy based mechanisms must protect human rights and critical, native ecosystems and reduce pollution at source
Organizations that have participated in building the Baltimore People’s Climate Movement Table:
Maryland Working Families
Communities United
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
CHISPA de Maryland
Baltimore Out for Justice
The Sierra Club (Maryland Chapter)
Interfaith Power & Light
Clean Water Action
United Workers
MD Environmental Health Network
Local artists
Baltimore Unitarian Universalists
MD Presbyterian Church
Residents Against The Tunnels (RATT)
People’s Power Assembly
- Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition
2640 Space
Student leaders from UMBC, Loyola, Goucher, UMB, Morgan State, Johns Hopkins, and Towson Universities
Email Taylor Smith-Hams (taylor@chesapeakeclimate.org) to find out where the next Monday Table meeting will be held, always from 5:30 - 8pm.
Note: This post and the individual bus pages will be updated as more information about the march and buses become available (including details on dropoff and pickup in Washington D.C.). Please check back often!