Local community, environmental, arts, and civic orgs are organizing a rally and human installation in Lower Manhattan as part of the Step It Up 2007 National Day of Climate Action on Saturday, April 14. The event is called the Sea of People, and it combines the dynamics of a mass rally with the expressive power of an interactive artistic installation.
Following a noon rally at Battery Park (in front of Castle Clinton), thousands of participants, dressed in blue, will stretch north in two columns along the projected eastern and western 10 foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the ten-foot sea level rise scenario. Both lines will extend approximately one mile north from the Battery–roughly to the World Trade Center site on the west side and Hanover Square on the east. Organizers estimate that a line of this length will call for at least 5,000 participants. www.seaofpeople.org