{"id":97,"date":"2017-07-15T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/?p=97"},"modified":"2017-09-29T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:56:24","slug":"200-rally-to-demand-climate-action-at-national-governors-association-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/200-rally-to-demand-climate-action-at-national-governors-association-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ rally for climate action at National Governors Association meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-103\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-114-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-103 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"NGA Rally\" data-height=\"400\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_103\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_103\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-104 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-09-28 01:30:09\" data-filename=\"nga-768x384.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2017\/09\/nga-768x384.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-103 slide-104 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-105 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-09-28 01:30:12\" data-filename=\"nga2-800x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2017\/09\/nga2-800x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-103 slide-105 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-106 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-09-28 01:30:16\" data-filename=\"nga3-800x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2017\/09\/nga3-800x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-103 slide-106 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-107 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-09-28 01:30:21\" data-filename=\"nga4-800x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2017\/09\/nga4-800x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-103 slide-107 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-108 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2017-09-28 01:30:25\" data-filename=\"nga5-800x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2017\/09\/nga5-800x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-103 slide-108 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CARI took the opportunity of the 2017 National Governors Association meeting in Providence to organize a rally demanding action on climate change from the nation&#8217;s governors. Well over 100 of us rallied, overflowing the meeting&#8217;s &#8220;protest pen&#8221; outside the convention center. Speakers from CARI, NoLNGinPVD, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Burrillville Land Trust, Fossil Free RI, Energize RI, and ECRI urged the governors to lead the way on shutting down dangerous and deadly fossil fuel projects, and shepherding an orderly but fast transition to renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Media coverage included this great story on RI Public Radio:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripr.org\/post\/ri-environmental-activists-rally-more-aggressive-climate-action-during-nga-meeting#stream\/0\">http:\/\/ripr.org\/post\/ri-environmental-activists-rally-more-aggressive-climate-action-during-nga-meeting#stream\/0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As always, RI Future had the most complete report:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.rifuture.org\/nga-climate-rally\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our rally at the NGA 2017 meeting in Providence delivered a message to the gathered nation&#8217;s governors: quit stalling and get moving on ending fossil fuel use, before it&#8217;s too late for our collective future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}