WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Huge crowds took to the streets in Washington, D.C. and at over 370 sister marches across the United States on Saturday in mass protests against President Donald Trump's climate policies.
The People's Climate March, timed to coincide with the 100th day of the Trump administration, followed a series of presidential executive orders that aimed to loosen restrictions on the fossil fuel industry as well as proposed deep cuts in funding to the country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other related agencies.
The main event in Washington D.C., started at 10:30 a.m. at Union Square, near the U.S. Capitol.
Nearly a dozen speakers, including a nurse affected by Hurricane Sandy, an indigenous community leader from the Gulf Coast and a student activist from Las Vegas, spoke about the impact that climate change and pollution were already having on their lives, calling for a clean economy that leaves no one behind.
"We come today to say the effects of climate change are real and causes of climate change are clear," one of the speakers, Judith Howell, member and political Organizer of SEIU 32BJ, a labor union, told the crowd.
"Mr. President, it's time to put the health and welfare of our communities before polluters' profits."
At 12:30 p.m., protestors, against the scorching sun, began marching west along the Pennsylvania Avenue, carrying signs as "End the Fossil Fuel Age," "Save the EPA" "Conserve Now or Swim Later," "Thinks of the Polar Bears," "Climate Change = Real Terror," and "Make Earth Green Again."
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