At Climate March in New York, a Clarion Call for Action

Under leaden skies, throngs of demonstrators 
stretching as far as the eye could see moved 
through 
Midtown Manhattan late Sunday morning, 
chanting their demands for action 
on climate change...

With drums and tubas, banners and floats, 
the People’s Climate March represented 
a broad coalition of ages, races, geographic 
locales and interests, with union members, 
religious leaders, scientists, politicians 
and students joining the procession.

"I’m here because I really feel that every major social 
movement in this country has come when people 
get together,” said Carol Sutton of Norwalk, Conn., 
the president of a teachers’ union. 
“It begins in the streets.”...[...]nytimes.com