{"id":28712,"date":"2013-02-17T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/02\/17"},"modified":"2013-02-17T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:20:27","slug":"thousands-converge-demand-action-from-obama-to-avoid-climate-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/thousands-converge-demand-action-from-obama-to-avoid-climate-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Converge: Demand Action from Obama to Avoid &#8216;Climate Disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/climate_forward_2.jpg\" class=\"c11\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people from around the country converged on Washington Sunday to deliver a clear and succinct message on climate change to President Obama and other political leaders in the nation&#8217;s capital: take action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tens of thousands of Americans will show President Obama the broad public support for climate solutions,&#8221; said Sierra Club, one of the key organizers of the rally.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the coalition of more than 200 hundred environmental, social justice and progressive groups said they would challenge Obama to &#8220;to keep his commitment of making climate action a top priority during his second term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president has several actions that he alone can take, they say, including rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and adopting a strong carbon rule to limit pollution from coal plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Keystone XL pipeline has put more people in the streets than any environmental issue in a generation,&#8221; said 350.org founder Bill McKibben.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time,&#8221; said McKibben, &#8220;for the president to live up to his rhetoric and say no to this climate disaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people from around the country converged on Washington Sunday to deliver a clear and succinct message on climate change to President Obama and other political leaders in the nation&#8217;s capital: take action.<br \/>\n&#8220;Tens of thousands of Americans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}