GreenFaith - Join the faith mobilization to #EndFossilFuels

I’m currently writing to you from New York City, where GreenFaith is joining thousands of other organizations worldwide in telling world leaders: #EndFossilFuels! Here's how you can take action with us this week:

In New York City this Sunday*, you are invited to join the Faith Hub for the March to End Fossil Fuels. Meet us on the east side of 53rd & Broadway for an Invocation of Spirit ceremony at 11 AM ET. This powerful multi-faith invocation will also be live-streamed here.

JOIN THE FAITH HUB IN NYC

If you're joining an action in another location, let us know! Send reports-backs and photos of your action to aly@greenfaith.org so we can track our collective impact together.

We know not everyone has the ability to join an in-person action, so we are partnering with Fridays for Future US to host a Virtual Action Hour on Monday, September 18, at 11 AM PT / 12 MT / 1 CT / 2 PM ET. No matter where you live, we need your help telling President Biden: #EndFossilFuels Now!

JOIN THE ONLINE ACTION HOUR

The first mobilization I joined as a professional faith climate organizer was the People’s Climate March in NYC, in 2014. Being in New York City this week for the March to End Fossil Fuels and surrounding actions is a major milestone and point of return in my journey as a faith-rooted climate justice activist. I find myself feeling a lot of big emotions – grief, excitement, awe… I’m reflecting on how far we’ve come in the last 9 years, and how far we still have to go in creating a society that responds to the climate crisis with moral clarity and equity at its center. I am grateful to be in good company with all of you, on this journey.

Wherever you live, I hope you will join me in showing up for the #EndFossilFuels mobilization – in NYC, another action near you, or through the virtual Action Hour on Monday.

In faith,

Aly Tharp
March to End Fossil Fuels Faith Hub Co-Coordinator
GreenFaith US Senior Organizer

* Why is the March to End Fossil Fuels during Rosh Hashanah?

We recognize this mobilization is planned for the second day of Rosh Hashanah. There were a number of factors that led us to choose this date. Given the timing of the UN Climate Summit, Yom Kippur on the following weekend, and the need to make the march accessible for families and working people of all backgrounds on a weekend, Sunday the 17th was the date that was chosen. The march organizers did not make this decision lightly. We deeply respect Jewish communities have different relationships with protest and social action during the High Holidays. We honor and affirm that many Jewish communities and organizations will be praying at this time and we celebrate their observance.
For Jewish climate activists who as part of their religious practice, would find it meaningful to gather together for communal, pluralistic prayer and ritual before joining the March to End Fossil Fuels together as Jewish contingent, please contact Noa Gordan-Guterman at noa@dayenu.org for details.
For those Jews who are unable to join us at the March due to observance of Rosh Hashanah, we invite you to join together in spirit with those marching in the streets of New York by using this additional reading from JCAN-NYC at your Tashlikh ceremony.