Extinction Rebellion chapters from across the US met on the frontlines in Northern Minnesota to support Indigenous water protectors in their fight against the Line 3 pipeline. While the pipeline is a clear environmental catastrophe, the very real and constant state suppression and violence against water protectors is horrifying.
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One year ago, on June 26, 2019, responding to pressure from a coalition of climate organizations, including Extinction Rebellion NYC and concerned constituents, the New York City Council passed a landmark resolution, 864, which calls for an immediate emergency climate mobilization. In the year since, however, the City Council and the Mayor’s office have been disturbingly slow to act on their commitment.
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As people stay home and city streets are empty, the internet is the most visible public space for activism. Hybrid Actions use the empty city as a canvas for powerful messages. XR NYC has created a toolkit so that any affinity group, neighborhood group, or XR chapter can create their own hybrid action.
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Extinction Rebellion will use the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to launch a series of actions targeting the government and the fossil fuel industry for their criminal failure to address the climate and ecological emergency.
The COVID pandemic, which proves that denying science costs lives, has forced chapters to abandon nonviolent direct actions planned for Earth Day. Some will still launch physical actions - Washington DC will send out small teams of guerrilla gardeners, and New York is planning solitary actions in an empty city - but the pandemic has meant that most have shifted their actions online.
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This morning at 10:30am, ten people from Extinction Rebellion NYC were arrested for blocking the construction of a fracked gas transmission pipeline in Brooklyn for over 2 hours in a nonviolent protest of this massive fossil fuel project.
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Extinction Rebellion NYC, a branch of the international movement Extinction Rebellion, in protest against the appropriately-named annual Black Friday event, carried out two protests in Manhattan: a “whirl” at the “big box” store Bed Bath & Beyond, and the blocking of vehicular traffic with seated meditation on 34th Street at Herald Square, near the location of Macy’s and many other retail outlets.These actions targeted not just those particular stores, but the entire culture of environmentally unsustainable consumerism.
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Environmental activist with Extinction Rebellion in NYC, climbed the iconic 140 foot, 12+ story steel Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens NY.
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Answering a call to action from Amazon Watch and the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) danced in the streets to speak against ecocide and genocide in the Amazon.
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On August, 7th we staged a die-in at the New York Times building and demanded the Times tell the truth about the climate emergency and stop publishing pieces discrediting youth climate activists & Greta Thunberg.
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On Saturday August 10th, Extinction Rebellion had a non-violent direct action with The Close the Camps NYC coalition at the ICE Community Relations Office resulting in 105 arrests.
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The last Friday of the month is internationally reserved for Critical Mass and on Friday, July 26, Extinction Rebellion revived this tradition in NYC.
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Our rebels returned to the New York Times. This time we brought the New York Times an example of how we would like to see climate break-down covered.
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On Saturday, 45 activists of XR's local Park Slope Group in Brooklyn turned out to raise awareness about climate disruption and build a community of rebels ready to respond. The Park Slope Group marched through the Grand Army Plaza Farmer's Market and through Prospect Park, with BRIC TV and several journalists in tow to report on the event. Park Slope may table at the Farmer's Market in coming weeks, and give another local 'talk' to bolster their ranks for future actions.
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It’s the summer holidays but the young activists of Fridays for Future keep up their protest. Extinction Rebellion came to support the young rebels at the Fox News Headquarter.
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On June 22nd, 300 XR activists took the fight to The New York Times - asking them to take the lead and cover the Climate Emergency the way they covered WW II. Activists demanded a radical ramp-up of the NYT’s climate reporting with daily climate headlines and the use language appropriate to the emergency. In the course of the action, activists dropped two banners, one at the NYT headquarter and staged a die in. The NYP arrested 70 non-violent activists sitting in the street.
On Saturday June, 15th, members of the Fort Greene community in Brooklyn came out to voice their opposition to a "redesign" plan for the park. The plan calls for the destruction of 58 trees in order to make way for a concrete plaza. "Speak for the Trees!" involved some fancy tree climbing for a banner drop!
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At 9 am on Friday Extinction Rebellion Activists entered the lobby of the New York Times to hand out flyers to employees . Extinction Rebellion demands from the New York Times that they start treating the Climate Crisis as the serious emergency it clearly is. Extinction Rebellion’s position is that the existential crisis currently facing humanity warrants coverage on a par with that given to World War 2.
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This morning, outside New York's City Hall, a group of several hundred protesters, representing XR-NYC, part of the global Extinction Rebellion movement -- which has now virtually taken over London, and has engaged in many other protests this week all around the world -- demanded that local government immediately declare a climate emergency. In the course of the action, two large banners were dropped and 62 people were arrested. In addition, mock citizen's assembly were held in which participants brainstormed their proposed solutions to the climate change issue and drew them in chalk upon the sidewalk outside City Hall Park.
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