Demonstration August 26 at NOAA near Washington
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One year after Hurricane Katrina
Demonstration August 26 in Washington area
at NOAA’s National Headquarters
Join Us As We Demand:
Justice for Katrina Survivors!
NOAA Leadership, Stop the Global Warming Cover-Up!
Katrina survivors and noted national leaders will speak. Activists will read aloud the names of hundreds of people still missing from Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina caused over 1500 deaths. On Saturday, August 26, at 12 noon, outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Md., let’s join together to remember and mourn for those who died while we demand action on the greatest source of future Katrina-like disasters: global warming. We will call for jobs, housing, health care, environmental cleanup and justice for Katrina survivors. We will demand that our government get serious about cutting the global warming pollution that is creating stronger and more frequent Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, according to scientists
Instead of protecting Americans, NOAA’s leadership, in direct violation of the agency's mission to warn the nation about “dangerous weather” and “improve our understanding and stewardship of the environment,” is steadfastly ignoring or distorting the growing number of scientific studies linking major hurricanes to global warming. Their actions are placing tens of millions of coastal Americans at greater risk of experiencing, over the coming years and decades, the kind of catastrophic impacts we saw in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina killed over 1500 people, displaced two million others and inflicted $200 billion in damages.
If NOAA’s leadership continues to violate NOAA’s mission, it’s time for new leadership. It’s Time to Stand Up for Justice and Truth-Telling!
Initiated by the U.S. Climate Emergency Council,
www.climateemergency.org, 973-338-5398, 301-891-6844, usajointheworld@igc.org
WHAT: Protest and Rally Demanding Climate Justice and Truth Telling from the NOAA Leadership
WHERE: 1305 East-West Hwy, Silver Spring, MD 20910
WHEN: noon – 3pm, Saturday August 26
WHO: U.S. Climate Emergency Council and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network
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