Sept. 21 2014 in NYC: People's Climate March - THIS WILL BE HUGE!!!! BE THERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/nyc-climate-march_n_5799268.html?utm_hp_ref=greenSorry I can open this link but can't cut and paste paragraphs from it. For more info, go to www.peoplesclimatemarch.org.
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I'm a long time vegetarian and while I was at the final planning meeting this week, I looked around at the crowd (over 700) and wondered how many of them still eat meat. One of my acquaintances who I only saw infrequently for lunch or brunch always claimed to be an environmentalist and then she'd order chicken salad. I never said anything because I can be pretty blunt.
(I wonder where my button is that states "Peace begins on your plate."
As far as this being a "waste" the plan is that (hopefully) at the end of the march people will hang around and network to keep some kind of action going and not let all this energy and enthusiasm only be for one day.
Where are you coming from? 
Since our biggest most important consumption is our food intake it does seem like more people would want to adjust their lives. Super-healthy vegans who haven't eaten meat in a decade prove it can be done. I'm not a perfect vegan yet, but I haven't eaten "meat" in years and somehow I'm making it! Is it just the feeling I get knowing I'm not causing so much death?
Anyway, this is why I've given up on DU. Like how our rape of the planet is why I've given up on Democrats.
I'm taking a bus from Northern Virginia, we leave at 6:00 am and get back about 11:00 at night. I'm nervous because I've never taken the bus up there, I usually take the train, I hate highways. I'm just gonna pack sandwiches and bandaids LOL Pray for me to make it home 
along West 86th Street. West 86th and Central Park West is the northern end of the assembly area, which the organizers intended to be for people unaffiliated with any groups that have their designated assembly areas to the south. Like you'll see on your map - the street named Central Park West (which is of course along Central Park) will be to the east of wherever you get off the bus. You may see a lot of trees in the distance to the west - that's another park, Riverside Park. That's the wrong park. 
The NYPD will have set up their horrid metal fencing to separate the several different sections of marchers, so there will be a limited number of streets you can enter in - 86th being one of them. A bus greeter will get on the bus soon after your arrival and give you the details.
I'm a kind of a marshal called a "peacekeeper" and we'll be scattered around. I don't know where they're putting me. We'll be wearing orange t-shirts and white hats. Other marshals will be wearing other colors - yellow or green or something.
This won't be the standard environmental demo - there will be floats and marching bands! I'm stoked but a little leery of what I've gotten myself into - my day starts at 7:00 a.m.
P.S. I'll try to look for you.
stoked but a little leery" ! totes!!!!
My focus will be: 1. take pictures, 2. make it home safe. And that is IT.
TY for this! We have less than a week! 
It states if you're not with a group you could stay in the area that ends at 86th Street but could also pick one to march with. If you do that you can either walk down to that group's section or take the subway (to spare your feet a little LOL.)
Plus, I looked at the map of the march site and it appears they expanded the bus drop off site a couple of blocks west. They expect at least 500 buses. And - there's going to be a welcome demo for the folks arriving Thurs. eve from California by train at Penn Station in midtown.
I like the #1 and #4 sections.
It's a busy weekend, Saturday is DCVegFest. But that'll be a day in the park compared to the trip to NY.
As long as I get back on the bus home that night I'll consider the day a success! (for me anyway 
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