Climate-change marchers finish cross-country walk
Des Moines Register, November 1, 2014
WASHINGTON — Three-thousand miles, 246 days and several pairs of shoes later, a group of exhausted walkers marched into Washington on Saturday, the last stop in their trek across America.
But they said that getting there was far from the end of their journey, as organizers hope the trek calls attention to climate change and the need for action to counter the problem.
Read the story by Christopher Doering at the Des Moines Register
The Great Climate March, featuring Miriam Kashia
Iowa City Press-Citizen, August 20, 2014
Nearly 150 people gathered on the pedestrian mall Wednesday, half of them slightly soggy from the mid-morning drizzle that fell as they marched from Coralville to Iowa City.
Many of them have walked nearly 2,000 miles.
Miriam Kashia, 71, of North Liberty is one of the participants of the Great March for Climate Action.
“The first word I would use would be ‘grueling,’ ” said Kashia, an active member of Iowa City group 100 Grannies.
Read the story by Mitchell Schmidt at the Iowa City Press-Citizen
The Little Village, April 22, 2014
On March 1, nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Port of Los Angeles to kick off the first ever Great March for Climate Action. Near the petrol refineries of East L.A., over 200 participants took their first steps in a journey that will end in Washington, D.C. by Nov. 1, 2014.
Miriam Kashia, a resident of North Liberty who, at 71, is one of the older marchers, plans to walk the entire way. Her motivation she says, “[is] to inspire and motivate and educate people” in order to battle the dangers of climate change.
Read more at The Little Village.