Hollywood stars hold climate rally

More than 1,000 people joined Hollywood stars including Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover in Philadelphia last night on the eve of the Democratic National Convention and vowed to keep fighting for climate and environmental justice issues, even though their preferred presidential candidate would not be driving the party’s agenda.
Sarandon, who like the other stars in attendance campaigned on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders, said the rally’s turnout was proof that theirs was a movement and not a cult of personality as some critics alleged.
“Our commitment hasn’t ended. This is not just about one election. ... We want real progressive politics and we want to say thank you to Bernie for igniting this spark,” she said. “Now we’re awake and we have to stay awake.”
Many in the crowd, which one speaker described as a group of “climate justice activists, fracktivists and climate revolutionaries,” wore Sanders shirts, buttons or lanyards. Some carried signs like, “Bernie would end fracking,” and the now defunct “Bernie for President.”
There was little mention of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with only one speaker making unfavorable comparisons between Sanders and Clinton while proudly noting that “we took over the Democratic party.”

Source: Arab News