The big cities are gearing up for big action.  Ben Jervey, one the numerous amazing Step It Up organizers in NYC, lets us know what's happening in the Big Apple. 

New Yorkers aren’t typically known for thinking too far outside of the five-borough bubble.  But on April 14th, thousands of our most concerned citizens will gather in Lower Manhattan to call on our local reps and political figures to get serious about reducing America’s carbon emissions.  

We’re calling our local installment of the Step It Up 2007 campaign the SEA OF PEOPLE.

What is SEA OF PEOPLE?
As was made visibly clear to many in a harrowing slide of Gore’s Inconvenient powerpoint, New York City’s coastal location makes it particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels that will result from unabated climate change and arctic warming. A ten-foot rise could well result (preaching to the choir here!) from significant melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice shelves over the course of this century. Such a rise would greatly reconfigure the map of our city, sinking much of Lower Manhattan beneath New York Harbor.

The SEA OF PEOPLE project will combine the dynamics of a mass rally with the expressive power of an interactive artistic installation. A high-noon rally in Battery Park will kick off the day of action, with short, impassioned speeches from local activists, political figures, children, and even a high energy choir.  After the rally, thousands of participants, dressed in blue, will stretch along a projected “future sea level” line that may one day redefine Lower Manhattan.  The line, at least a mile from end to end, will represent a true SEA OF PEOPLE.  It will stretch up both the west and east sides, roughly on Greenwich and Pearl Streets respectively, anchored at a point on the outer fringe of Battery Park that could in a hundred years serve as the lowermost tip of Manhattan.  

The SEA Of PEOPLE project is being organized by a number of NYC-based community groups, businesses, churches, environmental non-profits, and individuals.  This list is growing daily, and already includes: Solar One, Transportation Alternatives, Code Pink, The Battery Conservancy, and the Natural Resource Defense Council.

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