Hundreds of marches, pegs and cleaning events are taking place throughout the United States in the period before Earth Day, as an environment and climate The groups increase the resistance of tyranny to the Trump administration and “its war on the planet.”
Two weeks after the mobilization of “hands” brought millions to the streets, the national organizers and the popular base cooperate with supportive groups of democracy for “every day on the ground”-a wave of measures to demand the right to live a free and healthy life.
In New York, thousands of people gathered in the lower Manhattan on Saturday for the “Migrant March”, which was approved by dozens of climate and migrant justice groups, and called for the enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE) to exit from New York – and New York to get out of fossil fuel. The two movements were close to Trump’s campaign against immigrants and embracing fossil fuels – which would lead to an increase in the collapse of climate and forced migration.
Meanwhile in Milwoki, the march of discounts that you organized stopped Irrevocable and 50501 Republican lawmakers who support unprecedented discounts of health care, education, environmental protection and climate financing have called.
“Trump attacks immigrants and the planet by harmonizing himself with great protection from oil and difficulty erosion,” said Renata Bomarol, deputy director of the Climate Regulatory Center, who coordinated the New York march.
Trump and billionaire Mega Dionor Elon Musk The dismantling of federal offices that oversee clean air, drinking water, national gardens and forests, conservation, climate smart agriculture, environmental justice in amazing speed, as well as pressure on collective workers in the basic climate and environmental agencies including national weather service, FBA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Meanwhile, the regulatory standards of fossil fuels, petrochemical plants, mining, and other polluted industries – as well as an unprecedented campaign on freedom of expression, immigrants and universities.
It is also rumored that Trump is studying an executive matter that removes the tax exemption for some climate groups, which may be devastating to organizations at the level of the smaller base. Meanwhile, the White House also pays the Republican Congress to pass a budget reconciliation bill that cancels billions of dollars from granting the Biden era to clean investments and environmental protection.
Responding from the environmental and climatic movement to the Trump agenda, so far, has been often confined to the courts, with a set of lawsuits that challenge everything from collective workers and suspended environmental justice and erase climate change from federal government sites.
According to some defenders, the street resistance was somewhat disappointing – partially trauma on the scale and speed of Trump attacks, as well as some green groups to survive non -politicians for financiers and administration. Objection They say fatigue has also played a role, given that social uprisings in response to the killing of George Floyd and Israel on Gaza, which killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, led to a few political change.
Now, three months after Trump’s presidency and Congress surrender to his assault on this planet, many will begin the environmental justice movement and the climate in gathering behind three main demands: defending workers and democracy; Low costs for communities and final bulletins for companies and billionaires; And made the pollutants pay.
“Mobilization … it is the beginning of something: a wave from the bottom with demands that can be profitable for meeting and inspiring people in their place,” said Canilla Eng, the national director of the new green deals network, an alliance of front lines societies, work organizers and climate activists. “The gatherings, protests, and cleaning … the height takes many forms, and all of this helps, because we need a fixed collective lack of cooperation to fight tyranny and ensure a world that is suitable for living.”
On Tuesday, the planet will be over -profit and #tslataktedown, a coalition absorbing the billionaire home of billionaire James Murdoch, a member of the Board of Directors of Tesla. The TROMP MEGA-Danor El Musk Electric Company has faced allegations of air and water pollution around its factories in the United States, “and because there is no greater threat to our ability to live a rich and generous life on a safe and stable planet from Trump/Musk’s hygiene,” according to the organizers.
In Michigan, Jewish organizers run a phone bank to direct the voters and environmental voters before the May 6 municipal elections. In Doloths, Minnesota, the traditional Eugeboy Barakat will open an event that includes students who lead efforts to install solar energy in local schools and environmental scientists about the need to protect the local water laboratory at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Earth Day this year, Which includes climate education in schools and universities, UPS beach flavor, and tree planting in the United States and worldwide, is 55, but thanks to Trump, unparalleled.
First Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, when 20 million Americans participated in events, protests and instructions on pollution, loss of wildlife and waiting for natural resources-with contrasting issues under a broad banner of what became the American environmental movement.
This was followed by a campaign to topple 12 members of Congress with terrible environmental voting records in the middle of the period, with seven of the so-called dirty occupants losing their seats-including the strong president of the Public Works Committee.
Success has sent shock waves throughout Washington, and a month later, Congress approved the clean air law with an overwhelming majority, followed by a large number of laws that formed the basis for environmental protection including clean water, endangered species, national marine havens – and the creation of Richard Nixon created EPA.
Dennis Hayes said: “For almost six years, the environmental movement was not stopped, as we prompted us to make the world a healthy place for human beings and every diversity in life. There was always a pendulum in American politics but nothing like assaulting the environment – social security, education, health and economics – we see today,” Dennis Hayes said.
“In 2026, we will need to be organized strongly for the elections, but this Earth Day revolves around people with common values that meet together in search of local solutions, and some contemplation of what we did a mistake that allowed Trump to election and find strategies on how to overcome it.”
new Review 50 recent studies I found that the protests tend to influence media coverage and public opinion on the climate issue – even when using sabotage tactics. YALE program has found climate change researchers that group action can also convert voting behavior in people. In one of the studies in Germany, the Green Party received relatively more relatively in the areas where the climate protests occurred, Grist mentioned.
The GNDN movement and the Sunrise movement, a group of climate led by young people, was among those who carried out a campaign to secure the law to reduce inflation and investment in infrastructure in 2021 and 2022-now at a threat by pro-fuel fuel for Trump, and combating work.
“Just three months after Trump’s presidency, the damage was already catastrophic,” said Aro Xanti Ajay, Executive Director of the Sunrise. “On Earth Day, we stand united in challenging their greed and fighting for a future that gives priority to people and the planet for profits.”
