Together with climate allies from across the city, hundreds took to the streets for five consecutive days of protests including 49 arrests. We blocked occupied Park Avenue (several times) and took our demands to the front doors of those in power and to screens across the country and the world.
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Today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on West Virginia vs. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), siding with corporate energy providers and financial profits rather than the health of humans and the planet. In doing so, it lays the groundwork for tearing down any regulation that impacts the profits of corporations.
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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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This Rebellion asks you to step forward and step up. To refuse to be a bystander while our world is sold and burned by the selfish act of a few. We're looking to fill a variety of critical support roles for Rebellion events and we need your help!
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In many ways, 2021 felt like a prolonged continuation of 2020. It’s been a hard year and we have seen both the extinction crisis and the climate crisis get far worse. As we welcome in 2022, we will need strength to face these ever escalating issues, courage to go beyond our comfort zones, and love (and rage) to continue building Extinction Rebellion.
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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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