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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On Monday, the cost of a barrel of oil fell to $30 below zero, the first time oil prices have ever gone negative. This is the moment to nail the coffin lid shut on an industry that is pro-extinction. The fossil fuel companies have actively and knowingly destroyed life on Earth for too long.
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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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On February 25, 2020, Archie Kinnane and Richard Reiss of City Atlas gave testimony to the NYC Council on two new bills intended to strengthen the City’s carbon emissions reporting and management.
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in 1776, helping to spark the American Revolution. Now, Roger Hallam, one of the founders of the international movement Extinction Rebellion, has written his Common Sense for the 21st Century to spark a rebellion against the world’s governments for failing to tackle the climate and ecological emergency.
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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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Yesterday afternoon, at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, a group of about a dozen activists representing Extinction Rebellion NYC, part of the global Extinction Rebellion movement, created a “living diorama” to build awareness of the fact that, if humanity does nothing to end climate and ecological destruction, we are all headed for extinction.
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Joaquin Phoenix used his acceptance speech after winning the Best Actor at the Oscars last night to tell the world that we urgently need to change our ways. His words struck a chord that chimes with Extinction Rebellion’s call on governments to Act Now to address the Planetary Emergency.
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The oil and gas industry is dumping cancer-causing radioactive waste in neighborhoods across America as it continues to put revenue above all other impacts of its business.
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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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A rally in Battery Park, followed by a nonviolent direct action and the launching of Rebel Fest in Washington Square Park, which will carry over through the following four days, with additional actions
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