Dear Friends,
Check out this week’s PODCAST. We discuss ranked choice voting, Maureen McCue’s new book (Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night), Bison Bridge, Line 3, and high food prices.
I want to remind folks of the hugely important film, The Race to Save the World, and the panel discussion of marchers that accompanied Climate March’s promotion of the film. If you haven’t recently donated to support the work of Climate March, your help is needed and greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.
CLICK THIS IMAGE TO WATCH THE PANEL DISCUSSION
Thanks to Hannah Bacon, Miriam Kashia, and Pascha Morgan for participating as panelists. (Scroll to the bottom of this page for their bios.)
Special thanks to the 2014 marchers, March staff, and March supporters, listed below, whose financial support helped make possible our partnership with The Race to Save the World:
CLIMATE MARCH STAFF
Ed Fallon, founder and director
Forrest Determann, technology consultant
Sarah Spain, logistics director
Shari Hrdina, administrative director
CLIMATE MARCHERS
Charles Goldman (marched in Nebraska)
Cheryl Child (marched in Colorado)
David Osterberg (marched in Iowa)
Diggy (marched in Iowa)
Fernando Cazares (marched from Chicago to Washington, DC)
Maureen McCue and John Rachow with PSR-Iowa (marched in Colorado and Iowa)
MARCH SUPPORTERS
Anonymous
Carol Spaulding and Tim Kruse, who set us up with a solar collector
Chet Guinn
Eddie Mauro, community activist
Greg Maynard
Kathy Byrnes, Birds & Bees Urban Farm
Marilynn Keller
Monica and Roy Greene
Ralph King and Leslie Chin
Susan Franzen, KHOI 89.1 FM Radio (Ames, Iowa)
CLICK THIS IMAGE TO WATCH THE TRAILER, in which producer Joe Gantz’s team filmed the 2014 Great March for Climate Action. Marchers Miriam Kashia, Michael Zambrano, Sean Glenn, and Mack Wilkins are featured in the film.
To watch the film itself, which I strongly recommend, go to TheRaceToSaveTheWorld.com.
MIRIAM KASHIA. In 2014, at age 71, Miriam walked every step of the way across the US with the Great March for Climate Action. She has since continued her activism unabated, including being arrested several times fighting climate change.
Regarding the 2014 March, Miriam writes, “We spoke to thousands of people along the way and witnessed the increasingly devastating effects of our climate crisis for ourselves. Seven years later, the crisis has only increased exponentially. There is nothing more important I can do than work for a livable future.”
PASCHA MORGAN. In 2019, Pascha walked 1,200 miles from Iowa to Texas — a solo journey called the March Against Detaining Asylum-seeking Families (or MAD-AF).
Pascha writes that the purpose of his walk was “to put words like compassion, empathy, and human dignity into action. Love of others can make you MAD-AF.”
The climate emergency also motivates Pascha in his work, and he is very active in Des Moines’ Movement for Equality and Equity. The intersectionality between equality, equity, and climate is infused in all aspects of his work.
HANNAH BACON. Hannah walked over 3,000 miles solo across the US in 2020-2021 to raise awareness about the climate crisis and to raise funds for the Sunrise Movement. She raised $21,000 and lots of awareness.
Hannah writes, “In October of 2020, I flew from New York to San Francisco to visit friends. One week after landing in California I committed to walk back East, a decision I am attributing to my love for Santa Cruz, reading David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, being unemployed, and having two nieces I love deeply.”
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— Why ranked choice voting is gaining support
— Birds in the Morning, Frogs at Night, with Dr. Maureen McCue
— Bison Bridge across the Mississippi, with Chad Pregracke
— Line 3 resistance builds
— Why food prices are going up, with Kathy Byrnes
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