Climate activists are marching through D.C. Friday morning to bring attention to climate change. The protest will be a continuation of the protest action that stalled street traffic around the District Monday.
Hundreds of protesters started at McPherson Square in the District and are making their way through the city.
WUSA9 Reporter Evan Koslof is following along.
A look at protests on 14th St. and New York Ave. Protesters are calling for action on climate change. They are blocking off 14th St. in both directions. @wusa9 #GetUpDC pic.twitter.com/JDP9iZ6CfS
— Evan Koslof (@ekoslof) September 27, 2019
As protesters march, they are chanting, “The people united will never be divided” and repeatedly saying, “shut it down” while carrying large signs marked, “Capitalism is killing” and “Climate Justice.”
One D.C. protester said he is at the march Friday for his future. He said enough time has gone by and he needs action.
D.C. police are monitoring roads are protesters pass by and closing roads accordingly. You can keep up with the latest closures by clicking here.
The following roads have been closed due to heavy protester activity:
• 15th & I Street NW
• 12th Street & Pennsylvania
• 4th Street turning E/B onto Constitution Avenue
• 13th St. and K St NW
A look at the large crowd of protesters marching through the streets, calling for action on climate change. Right now they are marching down 14th St., heading for Constitution Avenue. @wusa9 #GetUpDC pic.twitter.com/tpZ5qMlTm5
— Evan Koslof (@ekoslof) September 27, 2019
Protesters went to the EPA headquarters, the Trump Hotel and have at least two other stops planned.
Outside of the Trump Hotel, protesters stopped and began dancing while calling for change. Protesters were still chanting “shut it down.”
I guess this is one of those only in DC moments. #ClimateStrike turns into a dance party in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave, outside Trump Hotel. @wusa9 #GetUpDC pic.twitter.com/5T8E2mF98L
— Evan Koslof (@ekoslof) September 27, 2019
During Monday’s protest, WUSA9 Anchor Annie Yu tweeted a video from a viewer that shows a man in the middle of an intersection twerking. He is apart of Werk for Peace which is an LGBTQ dance troupe.
WUSA9 crews spotted him again Friday, strutting his stuff for climate change.
The #ClimateTwerker is back. #ClimateStrike @wusa9 #GetUpDC pic.twitter.com/IW60Jfl1GU
— Evan Koslof (@ekoslof) September 27, 2019
The group is standing in front of the Wells Fargo building in a silent protest. They say the company has invested billions in fossil fuels.
The protesters silently marched to K Street intersection in Northwest. They have taken over 13th St. and K St NW where they are having a dance party.
The protesters have now taken over the intersection of 13th St. and K St NW. They are having a dance party. The #ClimateTwerker is at it again.
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.@wusa9 #GetUpDC #ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/VXHsxM5v9o— Evan Koslof (@ekoslof) September 27, 2019
A wide array of diverse voices participated in Monday’s protests. Groups ranged from Black Lives Matter to the women’s peace organization “Code Pink.”
“Climate disruption hurts the poorest communities first, working-class communities, communities of color, those are the ones where the big floods are,” Bill Ragen, of the Labor Network for Sustainability, said. “It’s the workers who always get it.”
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And so the motorists will be stuck while their engine idle and these groups of jerks parading around and blocking the traffic what was it they said about stupid people in large numbers well here are your stupid people in large numbers
Looks a lot like a gay parade to me .
This is exactly what UN bureaucrat Maurice Strong
advocated when they invented the scary global warming fund raising industry .
Strong questioned ……don’t we have an obligation to destroy capitalism ?
They needed to whip up a cause to galvanize the public and they picked
mann made up scary global warming .
They made sure money was sprinkled to “scientists ” that would write scary earth has a fever stories then they got “volunteer scientists to package those stories into a scary global warming report every few years . Thus trying to create some credibility to a massive fraud . When scary global warming fear mongering started to take reality hits they re branded to call their scheme climate change .
This is well know to the regulars who have followed this for years but the brain washing continues .
Maurice Strong lived in China and loved communism . A fondness shared by the current silver spoon Canadian Prime Minister . Mr. Dress Up the pretentious PC
virtue signaler who liked to dress up in black/brown face and who knows what else.
If kids want to protest something real maybe they should consider the $trillions in debt these liberals have saddled them with for life . Think of it
kids at least 30% of your income is going to pay off the interest on the
debt incurred by politicians … and not just lefties .
The variances in climate which are driven by natural variables and ignored
in the much touted IPCC reports won’t mean shit when the middle class is wiped out as is the plan . Governments are the biggest child abusers on the planet .
Essentially running up a massive credit card debt on the backs of kids .
Pick the right fight kids they are distracting you from the real damage they are doing to your future .