The Global Climate Convergence says the US Supreme Court McCutcheon v. FEC decision allowing wealthy individuals to buy even more political power is a call to action for grassroots, progressive campaigners across all movements to unite and ‘out-organize’ the corporate elite.
The group has launched Call To Action – a video manifesto calling on movements for social, economic and environmental justice to come together for People, Planet and Peace over Profit. The Convergence starts with a wave of action this spring, from Earth Day to May Day (April 22nd – May 1st).
The Global Climate Convergence is an education and direct action campaign. It provides coordinated action and collaboration across fronts of struggle and diverse issues to harness the transformative power we already possess as a thousand separate movements.
Global Climate Convergence Call To Action ties together movements for labor, immigrants’ rights, economic justice, indigenous rights, environmental justice, students’ rights, peace, democracy and more. By bringing together these groups on common ground, we are building a movement as big as the economic and ecological crises barreling down on us. The climate crisis, which threatens to unravel civilization as we know it by 2050, intensifies all of our struggles and creates new urgency for collaboration and unified action.
The Convergence movement brings together grassroots activists with seasoned campaigners for justice to press for an emergency Global Green New Deal, a broad set of solutions to pressing social, economic and environmental problems. These solutions – summarized by the slogan “People, Planet and Peace over Profit” – reflect the values and priorities held by a majority of people in the United States and across the globe.
By bringing together diverse justice movements and communities for Earth Day to May Day 2014 and beyond, the Convergence aims to demonstrate the broad public support that already exists for transformational change.
