April 22 2024.
This isn’t the Earth Day you know.
Students declare a climate emergency.
Join the campus-specific action nearest you.
Join a march to the Commons
Campus-specific actions will march to converge downtown for the unified Call to Action.
Be at the Ithaca Commons for a Call to Action
Cornell University
2pm: Meet at Ho Plaza for a decolonization action that will move to the Arts Quad.
3pm: Join the march to the Commons from Ho Plaza. Check out the post or flyer!
Ithaca College
EcoReps will lead an Eco Fest that will end at 2pm, and then will march to the Commons.
New Roots Charter School
New Roots students will walk out and march to The Commons at 3:30.
Ithaca High School & Boynton Middle School
Sunrise students will lead a gathering and march to the Commons beginning at 3:40. Check out the post, flyer, or event details!
LACS
Led by Sunrise, students at LACS will walk out of classes at 2:45 for a gathering at the amphitheater. They will march to The Commons at 3:30. Check out the flyer!
EcoVillage at Ithaca
EcoVillagers will gather and march to The Commons! Meet at the D in front of TREE at 2:15pm. March begins at 2:30pm.
Marchers will converge with the LACS march.
Tompkins Cortland Community College
The Student Sustainability Club at TC3 is organizing art for the climate and other actions.
Downtown Ithaca
As students carry out direct actions on their campuses, local residents will gather in DeWitt Park at 3PM for a Die In at the Tompkins County Legislature. March to follow. Please wear black and red if possible.
ALL HUMANS, FAR AND WIDE, FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY,
are invited and urged to exercise democracy:
take collective action to call on our institutions to Declare a Climate Emergency: Divest, Dissociate, Decarbonize, and Decolonize.
WEAR all BLACK & some RED
Song, speech, & wisdom from youth, activists, frontline communities, and Indigenous leaders.
SPEAKER LINEUP
Anna Kelles | Lea Webb | Dr. Nia Nunn | Christa Nuñez | Dr. Caroline Levine | Dr. Robert Howarth | Yanenowi Logan | Dr. Michael Charles | Jorge DeFendini
MUSICAL LINEUP
Second Spring | Amazing Cranium | Fenya Bartram
OUR GOALS
Campuses and community organizations across Tompkins County will come together for a mass coordinated action in solidarity with students and youth across the nation.
A message from the national organizers:
This April 22, we will turn out hundreds of campuses to build a different, stronger movement than the one kickstarted in 1970.
This April 22, we fight for our communities and our planet in a way we’ve never fought before.
This April 22, we Reclaim Earth Day. And we need you to join us.
OUR NATIONAL GOAL:
Turn out hundreds of campuses to demand that our institutions prioritize climate justice on all levels – from the halls of our universities to the halls of Congress. Read RED’s full demands.
OUR LOCAL GOAL:
Unite diverse campus and community groups across Tompkins County in reclaiming Earth Day from a historically narrow “sustainability” event to a powerful collective action that calls on our leaders to dismantle the climate crisis’ oppressive roots.
Our educational institutions hold power. We demand that they act with the urgency and at the scale that this crisis requires.
We will not watch quietly as our institutions fail us.
On April 22, we will demand that our institutions confront the climate justice crisis. We unite around a core Earth Day message: divest, dissociate, and decarbonize, while decolonizing by upholding climate justice communities and Indigenous leadership as essential to climate action.
ACTIONS TO TAKE NOW
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![Petition for ICSD Climate Action Plan]()
Sign the Climate Action Plan Petition to Ithaca City School District
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![Reclaim Earth Day Social Media post]()
Post to social media
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![Reclaim Earth Day Flyer Announcement]()
Announce RED in your classes
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![Sign Call to Action at Cornell]()
Sign the Call to Action at Cornell
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Make plans to power down your lab, classes, dorm, or office by 2p on April 22
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![Why we are walking out to Reclaim Earth Day]()
Tell people why your doors will be closed on Reclaim Earth Day
PARTICIPATING GROUPS
Join us to Reclaim Earth Day.
Campaign for Renewable Energy
Student Sustainability Club at TC3
Take back Earth Day. Join us.
Inquire about joining the Tompkins County Reclaim Earth Day actions.
Fill out the form below and we’ll get back to you. We welcome all participants, including K-12 schools and those involved in informal education on climate and social justice issues (through awareness-raising, advocacy, or direct action). Education takes place everywhere.
“We come from across the country, from bustling cities to rolling plains. We represent communities of color and of faith, communities on the frontlines of surging seas and empty aquifers. From fires to floods, from treeless neighborhoods to unbreathable air, from drinking water mixed with fracking fluid to pipeline expansions through Indigenous lands, we are all facing different disasters stemming from the same crisis. On behalf of our families, communities, and homes, we are scared and we are furious.”
-Reclaim Earth Day Student Organizers, in the preamble to their demands