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Thousands rally on Boston Common to demand action on climate change

A participant and a sign at Boston Common on Saturday. Keith Bedford / The Boston Globe

Thousands are rallying at the Boston Common Saturday afternoon to demand action on climate change, one of many Peoples Climate Movement events across the nation marking the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency.

“We are here today because there is no Planet B,” the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, minister for ecological justice at the Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain, told the sea of cheering people crowded around the gazebo.

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