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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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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