A lot of the usual peace and justice activists; "we would be in horrible shape without climate change"

From the DC global "warming" protests | Power Shift in the Air

This weekend in Washington, D.C., there was a lot of preparation for Monday's massive civil disobedience for clean energy at the Capitol power plant. Nonviolence trainings, sign creation, conferences. On Sunday night, just before it began snowing hard, I attended a gathering of authors, poets, singers, and the lead organizers of the action in a large university auditorium, and blogged as follows:

I'm at the big stop-carbon, pro-environment, Power Shift, Chesapeake Climate Action Network rally at GW University in Washington, D.C. Bill McKibben is MCing. Huge auditorium is sold out and packed. 12,000 students were in town this weekend for this conference. 2,500 have committed to risking arrest in civil resistance tomorrow. The crowd tends toward the white, wealthy, and elderly, but there are a good number of young people even in this event tonight. And there are a lot of the usual peace and justice activists here who work on issues other than this one.
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...(a member of "Grannies Against Coal" just told me that war wasn't a concern, that the climate was too big a danger).

On the other hand, Rev. Lennox Yearwood spoke next. He has always combined and unified and inspired and he did not disappoint tonight. I haven't seen Rev in a long time and realize I missed him. He brought the dead from environmental crimes together with dead Iraqis, the launching of wars for oil together with the damage to New Orleans and the deaths of coal miners. Beautiful job.

I've been at a No-Bases conference this weekend, and I would love to see the environmentally destructive US military bases around the world closed because they make war more likely. But we've been rehearsing the financial argument and it really only works, we only really save $140 B a year, if we throw all the soldiers based overseas out of work. What if, instead of that, the No Bases movement and the environmental movement were to develop a plan to employ all those soldiers and support staff in green energy, mass-transit, and other constructive work in their home communities back in the United States?
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McKibben just credited Al Gore for proposing civil disobedience. (I can think of a moment in Florida when that thought might have occured to him. He's not here, but I'm glad he said it and hope that he and others will keep saying it.)
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...Wendell Berry, who hasn't spoken yet, spoke briefly downstairs too and said that we would be in horrible shape without climate change.
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Mike Tidwell is asking everyone to write little notes to senators on slips of paper (and asking for money for the movement along with them). Someone shouted that DC has no senators, and he said to then write to Pelosi to say that DC wants voting representation. Another movement we can all agree on. Every movement that gets organized helps all the others.