Were here because it is going to take all of us, not just the Indigenous People, but everyone in the whole world to come together to save our water. We will take you to the streets of the peoples climate march and then as the family of john didoon rockefeller announces it will stop investing in fossil fuel companies, we will look at the growing Divestment Movement. Fuels and from fossil invest in a Clean Energy Future, benefiting the worlds majority is no longer acceptable for any from to seek to Profit Industries that threaten our values. Move your money out of the problem and into solutions. We will hear a message from South AfricanArchbishop Desmond tutu and speak to Scott Wallace of the Wallace Global Fund that is spearheaded the Divestment Movement in the Foundation World. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. As many as 400,000 people turned out in new york city on sunday for the peoples climate march, the largest environmental protest in history. The turnout far exceeded expectations, with a massive crowd filling the streets to demand action on Global Warming. Other marches and rallies were held in 166 countries. More protests are planned today. Climate activists are gathering this morning in Downtown Manhattan for a mass sit in dubbed flood wall street. The march was time to coincide with the United NationsClimate Summit in new york on tuesday. New figures show global emissions of Greenhouse Gases rose last year to record levels. Greenhouse gases increased 2. 3 overall. U. S. Emissions were up 2. 9 after declining in recent years. The head of the talks, the obama ministry confirmed it will not pledge any new money to a global fund helping poor nations deal with Global Warming. In a move coinciding with the Climate Summit, the heirs to the Rockefeller Oil fortune are announcing they will divest their 860 Million Charity from fossil fuels. Theyre part of a coalition of over 100 institutions and wealthy individuals who have joined a campus led movement to purge their investment portfolios of assets tied to fossil fuel companies and to instead invest in cleaner alternatives. We will have more from the peoples climate march as well as divestment in the Foundation World after the headlines. 49 turkish hostages have returned home after three months in captivity by the militant Group Islamic state. The hostages were kidnapped in the iraqi city of mosul in june. Turkey is provided no details on how they were freed, but denies paying a ransom or making any deal with the isis captors. More than 130,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees have fled syria into turkey since friday, fleeing an isis offensive. The United Nations says it is one of the largest lies of Syrian Refugees since the civil war erupted three years ago. To launch airnues strikes targeting the Islamic State in iraq as it moves to bring the war to syria. On sunday, the sms under to the United Nations said other countries have signed on for the expanded offensive following an International Summit last week. , more than 40 countries spoke half the the mr. Neil level, the french last week joined, mission strikes in iraq for the first time. Yet the saudis who have come out and offered training bases for the moderate opposition, now that congress has approved the program the president put forward. Were seeing a diverse range and forms of support and a commitments are coming in every day. That Samantha Power speaking on meet the press. The Yemeni Government has signed a peace to with the shiite Houthi Rebels after days of fighting that killed dozens of people and displaced thousands more. The agreement calls for an immediate ceasefire and a process for forming a new government. It is unclear if the houthis will relinquish a number of major advances nationwide, including the seizure of key government buildings in the capital. Rallieds of people have in moscow to oppose russian involvement in ukraines civil war. More than 3000 people have died since fighting between Ukrainian Forces and russianbacked separatists erupted in april. A crowd of up to 20,000 turned out for sundays march, chanting slogans including no to war. Thoughlence has slowed, not ceased, since a truce was reached earlier this month. Do United Nations says the deliberate sinking of a migrant maltaff the coast of earlier this month could amount to mass murder. As many as 500 people reportedly killed. Denouncing the attack, United Nations refugee agencys looks person Rupert Colville called for those responsible to be brought to justice. To literally ramming a boat full of hundreds of defenseless people is a crime that must not go unpunished. Were looking at what amounts to mass murder in the mediterranean. Not be anyn should less rigorous just because the victims are foreigners and the crime took lace on the high seas. Yet very few people who kill, rape, or robert migrants during the journeys rarely end up in court. Many had paid thousands of dollars to sneak out of gaza for the europe bound ship. Another 15 palestinian migrants from gaza reportedly died in another ship sinking the same week. And iraq war veteran has been detained after pulling off an unprecedented Security Breach at the white house. The secret service says Omar Gonzalez jumped a fence and sprinted across the north lawn, making it all the way to the front of the white house where he entered through an unlocked door. He was immediately taken into custody with authorities seizing a knife. Gonzalez reportedly served at least one tour of duty in iraq. His family says he posttraumatic stress disorder. Another intruder was arrested after trying to breach the white house grounds on saturday. The secret service says it has launched a review of its security procedures, calling gonzalezs entry into the white house unacceptable. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We turn now to the peoples climate march. Organizers estimate as many as 400,000 people marched in new york sunday in the largest climate protest in history. Turnout far exceeded expectations. Other marchers and rallies were held in 166 countries. More protests are planned today. Climate activists are gathering in Downtown Manhattan for a mass sit in dubbed flood wall street. The actions are timed to coincide with the United NationsClimate Summit taking place here in new york on tuesday. President obama and over 100 other World Leaders are expected to attend. Sundays events in new york began with an indigenous sunrise ceremony in central park will stop indigenous activists led the march. Aaron mate was in the streets. Where the front of the peoples climate march. Divided intos been different groups and at the front are indigenous and frontline amenities most impacted by Climate Change. Most impacted by Climate Change. Im an organizer with the Indigenous People social movement. Really,oday are going really well. We have tens of thousands of not hundreds of thousands of people on the street. We frontline indigenous communities from communities disproportionately affected by president obamas energy policy. We have leaders fighting fracking, tar sands, pipelines, all kinds of pipeline fighters from across the continent. Were organizing in solidarity with First Nations who are trying to stop tar sands expansion at the source. We are to send a clear message to president Obama Stephen harper, and the rest of the World Leaders that we need legally binding mechanisms on Climate Change right now. If they aint going to do it, the people certainly well. Were here to march for the next seven generations and take a stand against Big Oil Companies that are coming through our territories and trying to take our Ancestral Lands and destroy us. Were here because it is when you take all of us, not just the Indigenous People, but everyone in the whole world to come together to save our water. We are here on the march. Were marching because were fighting for Climate Justice and fighting because in december, the next cop will be in our country. Were preparing the people summit. The next march is december 10 inlima. Were asking the peruvian government, even if there taking pictures here your ban kimoon, theyre not in the kind of commitment in the country. Fightd to fight here and in our country. This is a global fight. What do we stand for . Peace and justice. Here have about 300 strong of our young people. We are Human Rights Organization located in williamsburg, brooklyn. Fromof our people are puerto rico and the dominican republic. Need the powers that be to come together with our people and really make decisions that are about preserving our earth. My name is carlos garcia. Represent 54,000 new york state employees for professional scientific and technical workers and were here to say to the u. S. Government and new york state government, lets take care of our climate and take care of our environment. Im with the gymnastic National Workers alliance with the new york Domestic Workers here today. For here, we are here because as Domestic Workers, it is time to clean up the climate mess. Domestic workers have been part of the struggle for a long time. For those of us who are Migrant Women workers, we often come what climateof crisis has done to our home country. We have come upon a huge contingent of young people, many carrying signs reading youth choose Climate Justice. Obama, we dont want no climate trauma. Im here from the university. What does your sign say . From Climate Change. We believe our university should sell off all its investments in the fossil fuel industry. That is coal, oil, natural gas tar sands and reinvest in clean, renewable alternatives. I am 16 from boston, massachusetts. As a youth, i feel like every youth should be a part of this because it concerns them and their future. Whether or not they can live 20 years from now with Climate Change. I feel it is important for me to be here. Weve through this march, tens of thousands are out in full force. Coming across all sorts of diverse groups. Whats the number one way to fight, change [indiscernible] we have everybody from hindus, catholics, protestants, atheists are marching together in a group. From rockaway beach, an organizer with rockaway wildfire. Sandy devastated the rockaways peninsula. We know Climate Change is being exacerbated by all of the systemic profiteering that is happening throughout our world. It is time for that to stop. Ed, it havent been involv is time to get involved because the is affected militarists. Im a phd student at Dartmouth College and im here because i care. The banner on which the scientists are marching is the debate is over . Yes. There is always a debate to be had on the edge of a large topic, but the called action is very clear. Were in a block of demonstrators under we know who is responsible. Campaigners, peace and justice groups, those who are organizing against the groups they save holding back progress. Im here with the flood wall street contingent. Were calling on people to do a mass sit in on the financial district to highlight the connections between corporate financing ande bankrolling of Climate Change, the financing of politicians who will not bring meaningful legislation to the table. Were blocking the process of bringing [indiscernible] some of the voices from the 400,000 strong peoples climate march here in new york. A special thanks to aaron mate and Elizabeth Press in the streets for democracy now globalin exclusive threehour broadcast on television, radio, and the internet sunday from right were the march began. Guests included the musician Angelique Kidjo. And was born in west africa raised there and every time i go back, all of the tommy hear from the women who sell and the markets how hard it is for them to have more and more good to sell because of the climate changing. Does who are paying the price of Climate Change . The women of africa. Theyre the ones who cook the food and make the balance between the family, community, and their own children. The scarcity of food is linked to Climate Change. How are we going to see the next generation . It is becoming more and more complicated. We dont have the food we need, another to sustain our life. Is there any chance you could sing a song for our viewers and listeners all over the country and all over the world . Well. Look into this camera heres the microphone. Dousing the first song i sang when i was six years old, where we use the drums and invite everyone to listen to a message and be part of that message and part of the change. It goes like this [singing african song] thank you so much. Grammy awardwinning musician Angelique Kidjo could also and oxfam ambassador. We will go to break with her and then more voices from the march also finally, the Foundation World is beginning to the vest from fossil fuel companies. We will bring you more. Stay with us. [music break] Angelique Kidjo performing for a steering democracy now live broadcast sunday. Performing for us live on democracy now on sunday. She is the unicef goodwill ambassador as well as and oxfam. Epresentative to the world as we continue our coverage of the peoples climate march here in new york will stop organizers estimate some 400,000 people took heart. Democracy now a threehour broadcast on the historic march. From the launching point of the march. We are going to turn to highlights from that special. Just before the march began trying to be independent senator Ernie Sanders of vermont who is considering a run for the white house in 2016. About 1000 vermonters and 400,000 americans that understand that Global Warming is real, it is already causing devastating problems in the United States and around the world and it will only get worse if we do not act aggressively to cut carbons and transform our Energy Systems away from fossil fuels to Energy Efficiency that is sustainable. It is a huge issue. We have to act. And one ofhe signs the mantras is, we need system change, not Climate Change. Of course you need Climate Change. The scientist committed he tells us we have in their opportunity to move. You also have to change the system. Among many other things, one of the reasons we are virtually no republican in congress, we have not acknowledged the reality of Climate Change. Youre not going to change politics in america unless we deal with the Koch Brothers and billionaires who are trying to buy elections. If we live in a society which is based on simply purchasing, purchasing, purchasing, more and withoutelopment understanding sustainability, in a longterm problems. How do you deal with money and politics . You overturnll, his Disastrous Supreme Court decision called Citizens United, which dave a green light to the Koch Brothers and billionaires to buy elections. The second thing how do you overturn it . Through a strong grassroots movement. We had a vote over the go that the media forgot to cover. Vote over a week ago that the meter forgot to cover. Number two, in my view, public funding of elections. It is not appropriate that people have the money or support the people have money can buy elections. The issue of whether you will run for president and what that means for pre