Author Archives: Shari Hrdina

Youngstown

October 9 21.0 miles   ~ Event Information ~  7 am: Depart Newton Falls 12 pm: Welcome lunch Expect 20 locals to join us in the Mahoning Valley at the Bike Path at Rt 46 and Salt Springs Rd in Mineral Ridge 5 – 5:30 pm: Reach the Mahoning Ave. bridge Cross the Mahoning Ave. bridge (Peanut Bridge) with local supporters   ~ Campsite ~ Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown   ~ Marching map for the day ~

Out of the Deepest Darkness

[By: Moshe Givental] The facts of Climate Change are hard to swallow, if it wasn’t for the community of Marchers who welcomed me in, who made me family, I don’t know if anything I “learned” this summer would have really stuck. It’s natural to turn away turn away from things that are scary, from facts that have the potential to turn our understanding of life upside down and inside out. I would go as far as to say that if you’re not terrified, you’re actually Continue reading →

Bessemer

October 10 16.4 miles ~ Event Information ~ Border Crossing & Pennsylvania Welcoming Event! Great March for Climate Action is crossing the Ohio-PA border at the Pennant Midstream cryogenics plant in New Springfield Township Ohio and spending the night at The Farmer’s Wife – Henry Family Farms. More details, such as time of the border crossing event, will follow as plans firm up. Hope to have them march past the site of the 4.0 earthquake that Hilcorp Energy caused in March by fracking the Utica around Continue reading →

Clevland

October 4-5 Mileage TBA ~ Event Information ~ Saturday 8 – 9 am: Marchers depart from North Olmsted (route to include OH-10E (Lorain Rd) 2 – 5 pm: Marchers arrive at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, 2728 Lancashire Rd, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44106 4 pm: Meet with the Marchers in order to match up with them for a home stay 6 pm: Potluck Provided at UU Church: 100% vegan/vegetarian if you choose to attend, followed by community discussion   Sunday 6 pm – 7:30 pm: Continue reading →

Judy Todd

Age: 67 Hometown: Portland Oregon Interests: Trees, Rivers and Mountains, Ecology & Environment, Camping, Walking, Birding, Being a grandparent to 4 future climate activists Why Judy wants to be adopted: To share my interests with my adoptive ‘family’ and to hear about their own interests.           Adopt Judy for $100 Adopt Judy for $250 Adopt Judy for $500 ** Please note on your check or Paypal who you are adopting or send an email to ki(at)climatemarch(dot)org after you have adopted so we can note it Continue reading →

Spirits are Soaring

[By Peter Clay] Rejoining the Great March for Climate Action in New York City for the People’s Climate March and Flood Wall Street was an incredible experience! My spirits are soaring on the possibilities that are opening for all of us. We can and we must do more than just form coalitions between all the separate movements for peace, environmental and economic justice and civil rights for all people. To combat corporate power, the dominant capitalist paradigm that sustains racism and profound economic inequities and Continue reading →