Youth Climate March in Seattle October 29 A Great Success!

Yesterday’s march entirely organized by  youth and featuring speakers who were almost all BIPOC, was beautifully organized by them as well as carried out.

We started at Pier 62 on the waterfront. here is the beginning with 

both a land acknowledgement and a song/prayer by a native youth.

The signs were really good.

Inaction will kill us

Here I am with one of the terrific signs.

There was some important information handed out about the fraud of carbon cap and trade, and the huge pollution from the military.

We marched up first avenue up Union to Chase Bank, one of the funders of the pipelines. We had speeches, songs, and a  die in. The Seattle Times managed to put a photo on the front page without including Chase Bank in the background, it showed mainly knees!

Here is where we lay down ( not me). Then I took a video, hopefully coming soon   

There was more beautiful singing, and then we made a memorial in front of Chase Bank to all we are losing . I contributed a small ceramic grasshopper. Maybe you can see it in the midst of the candles. I was just reading about how many insects are disappearing.

Here is the memorial with some details. It was really moving. ( There were a few cops with bikes standing by and I heard one of them say, we are preventing the windows from being smashed, and we will stay until maintenance cleans this up. I guess they don’t have any children)

Impressive sign with  Paul Cheroketen Wagner’s image

in the middle

then we went on to Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. they are insuring the pipelines that are going through native lands all over the place, including most famously in Northern Minnesota with the horrific line 3. the second image is some street theater with Emus  sticking their heads in buckets of tar sands, then convincing the employees of Liberty Mutual that they have agency to do something, and finally freeing the emus.

Below is a young Tlinglit woman was really articulate about resisting pipelines. I am hoping to make You Tubes of my video recordings and add them to the post, as the songs and speeches were really eloquent.