As Avaaz members around the world push their own governments on climate change, there's good news from the US: a powerful climate movement is sweeping across the United States.
Last April, our friends at Step It Up helped ordinary Americans arrange 1400 rallies urging the government to step up their responses to climate change. Now, Step it Up are back, building the US climate movement even further by pushing for politicians to turn words into action. On November 3, a year before the next election, they are asking people to organize or attend rallies in their communities. This time, they will invite US lawmakers to attend events and see for themselves what the polls are already saying: 86% of US citizens want action on climate change.
This video gives a sense of what happened in April. We're hoping the push this weekend will be even more powerful!
Avaaz members will be adding their global voice to the movement on Monday, as Step It Up culminates in a youth-led conference in Washington DC called PowerShift . On Monday, thousands of US youth climate activists will meet members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol--and they've invited Avaaz to present our global climate petition to Congressional leaders. Then the activists will fan out to lobby their members of Congress one-on-one--and to hand-deliver messages from Avaaz members around the world urging US action on climate change.
Let's hear it for Step It Up and PowerShift!
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