Rally For Our Planet: No To Pipelines!

Start: Friday, September 07, 2018 6:00 PM

On Friday, September 7, Arlington Unitarian Universalist Church will host an uplifting rally of various groups allied against the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. The event will feature Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, Delegate Sam Rasoul, a member of Virginia’s House of Delegates, and speakers from multiple grassroots advocacy groups -- all stressing the importance of protecting our state’s natural environment, clean drinking water, public health and property rights. The two pipelines would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia (the ACP also extends through North Carolina) destroying pristine land and threatening clean drinking water for generations to come.


Endorsed by: Sierra Club Virginia Chapter,

The Greater Prince William Climate Action Network, Indivisible NoVa West, Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, Peninsula Indivisible Community, 350 Loudoun, Wild Virginia, Climate Reality, Network NoVA Action and more

Speakers Include:

  • Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
  • Sam Rasoul, Virginia House of Delegates
  • David Sligh, Wild Virginia
  • Danica Roem, Virginia House of Delegates
  • Alice Redhead - Sierra Club VA Chapter Opportunities of 100% Clean Energy
  • Jonathan Sokolow
  • Emily Satterwhite
  • Red Terry
  • Chad Oba
  • Ella Rose
  • Lakshmi Fjord

The Rally for Our Planet, an action standing up for Virginia’s clean water and expressing opposition to dirty fossil fuels projects, liked fracked gas pipelines follows months of intersifying opposition. This action is happening as part of a global effort, with hundreds of actions under the banner of Rise for Climate to highlight increasing climate impacts and the need for real climate leadership. On September 8, tens of thousands of people will take to the streets San Francisco in the city in the largest climate march the West Coast has ever seen, while hundreds more actions will target states facing pivotal mid-term elections this November to demand that fossil fuels stay in the ground. They will be showcasing community-led solutions to the climate crisis and demanding that political leaders and decision makers step up their climate action ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit taking place on September 12 in California.

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