Climate Group To Rally At Chuck Schumer's Park Slope Apartment

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Climate activists will rally in front of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn apartment this weekend, but not with the usual picket signs and chants.

The climate action organization 350Brooklyn has put together a family-friendly event in front of the minority leader's Prospect Park West building complete with singalongs, sidewalk chalk, face painting and other activities.

The Sunday morning rally will call on Schumer to support the climate-action plan the Green New Deal by focusing on the ways children will bear the brunt of the consequences of climate change.

"The Democratic Party leadership has yet to take a firm and effective stance on climate issues, particularly when it comes to supporting the most innovative and potentially disruptive legislation put forth thus far: the Green New Deal," 350Brooklyn organizers said. "As a grandfather himself, we hope that Senator Schumer will heed this call from children and families."

Families and other supporters will gather from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. outside Schumer's 9 Prospect Park West building. Attendees can bring cards or make them on-site to create a line down the block, organizers said. The cards will be delivered to Schumer at the end of the event.

The Green New Deal, whose primary backers include Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, seeks to fully decarbonize the economy by 2030.

350Brooklyn is putting on the rally with several other organizations, including Sunrise Kids NYC, Hootenanny Art House, Indivisible Nation BK, Interference Archive, NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group, GetOrganizedBK and Park Slope kids' activist group Citizen Squirrel.

This is hardly the first time Schumer's apartment, which he has owned since the 1980s, has been the sight of activists trying to get their message across to the senator.

Just last year, supporters for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy rallied outside the building and, before that, thousands showed up to the Prospect Park block to call for Schumer to shut down President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees.