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Can Sunday's climate march expand the movement beyond wonky white men?
2014-09-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NY Magazine: The organizers are trying very, very hard to make to the protest look more like the population. Vernell Robinson was stressed. The 51-year-old resident of the Carleton Manor public housing project in the Rockaways sat last weekend in the putty-colored community room of her building with two other local activists, Danielette Horton and Lawanda Johnson-Gainey, trying to figure out how to inspire a busload's worth of fellow low-income Rockawayers to join them for the trip into Manhattan on Sunday...
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