Friday's Global Climate Action Los Angeles in Pictures

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People packed the streets when marching from Pershing Square to City Hall

Paul Krehbiel, a familiar face at progressive protests in Los Angeles

Traffic in downtown LA was brought to a standstill as protesters filled the streets.

Global Climate Protest in LA on Friday 9/20/2019-Marching to City Hall

Marching down the hill

Marchers on Main St began filling in City Hall Park

Los Angeles City Hall Park hasn't looked this good since Occupy LA in October 2011

Global Climate Protest in LA on Friday 9/20/2019 City Hall Park

Readers of this blog know that I have long stressed that white supremacy isn't just the ideology of domination of white men over people of color, it's also about the domination of the Earth. These protesters get it!

They raised their important banner high in the center of the park.

Looking backward

Global Climate Protest in LA on Friday 9/20/2019 - "The wrong ICE is melting"

This was my favorite chant!

Rally on the steps of City Hall

City Hall Park was packed!

Many colorful and thought provoking signs were carried by the protesters.

Planet over Profit

"System Change not Climate Change!"

"Wake Up"

People demanded the major come out, shouting "Eric, Eric."

But first a line of LAPD brass formed a line at the top of the stairs.

Help!

Denial will not save us

Dear Big Oil - Take Responsibility - Tax Oil 

Sign reads: You are going to die of old age. We are going to die of climate change.

"This Generation's Resistance Will Ensure Our Existence"

The Power of the People will never be defeated!

In the end, Mayor Garcetti was forced to come out and address the protesters.

Mayor Garcetti was surrounded by LAPD brass as he spoke.

I’m struggling here. How can actual adults - thousands apparently- believe it’s the child has created this stir and not the massive media mobilisation engaged by the corporate greenwashing industry? Have they even checked the specific demands being promoted? https://t.co/Z1LzTQY5Cw

— Tim Hayward (@Tim_Hayward_) September 21, 2019

These "anti-imperialists" just don't get it. They have no belief in people power and think everyone is a puppet of some western imperialist.

Global Climate Protest in LA on Friday 9/20/2019

Venice Community Organizer Lydia Ponce

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