Sept. 17 NYC Climate March With Cornel West, Green Party, Fridays For Future, AOC

On Sunday September 17, an estimated 75,000 people marched in the streets of New York City in the largest climate event in the US since the onset of COVID. The march called for President Biden to take much stronger action against fossil fuels, including fulfilling his campaign pledge to stop issuing permits for fossil fuel extraction on federal lands and for him to formally declare a climate emergency and to take Executive Action at outlined in ClimatePresident.org. This segment starts off at the beginning of the march with some brief audio of two candidates vying for the Green Party nomination for President, Dr. Cornel West and Jasmine Sherman, followed by remarks by two Green Party officials, Joey Naham and Gloria Mattera from New York. We conclude with speeches made at the rally at the end of the march, from a student organizer with Fridays for Future and Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.