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- Great_March_for_Climate_Action abstract "The Great March for Climate Action (also known as the Climate March) was launched on March 1, 2013 by former Iowa lawmaker Ed Fallon, inspired after meeting with Bill McKibben. “Since probably 2007, I’ve identified the climate crisis as the most serious challenge facing our planet, and I’ve been pondering ways in which I could most effectively help address it.”The non-profit organization plans to mobilize one thousand people to march across the continental United States in order to raise awareness and action on anthropogenic climate change. The march will begin March 1, 2014 in Santa Monica, California, and arrive in Washington, D.C. by November 1, 2014. Along the route, participants will engage with the general public and elected officials in order to inspire society to address climate change.In a Des Moines Register interview Fallon said, “We think it’s very important. We think this is a tool that will help mobilize people to understand the problem and to do more about it…this needs to become the defining issue of this century.” Fallon was inspired in part by another cross-country march, the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, for which he coordinated the Iowa logistics. Although this is a national campaign, it is intended to have an international audience and will likely include participants from multiple nations, as climate change is a global crisis.The headquarters of the non-profit are located in Des Moines, Iowa. As of October 2013 they had six staff, had raised $120,000, and earned endorsements from 350.org, James Hansen, and U.S. Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Bruce Braley among others.".
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