On Friday, hundreds of protesters marched between the headquarters of NBC News and ABC News to draw attention to the lack of serious media coverage about the climate emergency. This mass march was the first major action of Extinction Rebellion's Spring 2022 Uprising, in which the organization is taking to the next level its resistance to the dangerously inadequate public response to impending catastrophic climate change.
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Early in the morning of November 29th, Extinction Rebellion activists placed a banner reading “1% of people cause 50% of aviation emissions,” at the entrance of the Westchester County Airport.
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Extinction Rebellion activists blocked the entrances of the United Nations Headquarters with a banner reading "Criminal Climate Betrayal." The action comes days after the close of COP26, which failed to meet the urgency of the climate crisis and delayed consideration of bigger emission cuts until the end of 2022, "requesting" that governments come up with stronger pledges by that date.
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COP26 is all but bound to fail. It's been 26 annual summits, along with decades of denial, inaction, and exponential increases in carbon emissions that have led us to this point. Because of this failure, we accuse the rich and powerful countries within the COP process of crimes against humanity.
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Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement activists were arrested for disrupting this morning’s rush hour traffic on FDR Drive and West Side Highway. They vowed to cause further disruption until President Biden takes executive action to fulfill his climate pledge to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030.
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