As I went about my day today trying to organize my self to leave in three days, live on a train with not much sleep, not much room, no access to wireless, and little access to good food, I wondered at the level of planning needed by the organizers of this March. I went to the website 350.org and looked up the actions in other cities around the world.
I looked at the two cities where I had once lived and learned the language, Berlin and Istanbul. I saw that each city was taking a different approach. Berlin is calling theirs: The Silent Climate Parade, and Istanbul’s title is Action, Not Words. It is so thrilling to think about how many of us there are from completely different backgrounds and languages, in different time zones at different angles to the sun and moon, all of us thinking and feeling the same: save this planet, stop this madness!
No matter how big the challenges and obstacles that lie ahead, no matter how seemingly complicated, we can do it all of us together in collaboration. We can really change ourselves, and change the economy and the imbalances and injustices we have just accepted throughout history.
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