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In solidarity with New York City participants in the worldwide, historic International Youth Climate Strike to demand immediate action on climate change, the movement organization Extinction Rebellion (XR) joined with protesting youth by performing in an act of civil disobedience outside the American Museum of Natural History on Friday, March 15th. Sixteen people in all were arrested near the museum. Of those arrested, two were youth and 14 were members of XR.

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In New York, the NYC chapter of Extinction Rebellion (XR) engaged in a series of escalating nonviolent direct actions at multiple locations in Midtown Manhattan. These public acts of civil disobedience were designed to disrupt business as usual and to focus attention on the immediate and existential threat posed by climate breakdown to all life on Earth, including organized human life. This peaceful, disruptive approach was pioneered by XR activists in London, where last fall Extinction Rebellion shut down five bridges over the River Thames.

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In response to a nonexistent threat, President Trump in December initiated the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. For the greatest actual existential threat humanity has ever faced – worldwide climate chaos – XR-NYC, on behalf of the people of New York City and the world, will engage this Saturday in NYC: Rebellion Day One, a symbolic, temporary shutdown of a significant local institution.

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