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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.
Read MoreExtinction 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.
Read MoreNew York, NY – Extinction Rebellion activists appeared in New York County Criminal Court on Wednesday, October 6th, to face charges for their direct action protests against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, the largest financiers of fossil fuel projects responsible for the climate crisis, which took place on September 17th.
Read MoreThis morning, Extinction Rebellion NYC simultaneously carried out direct action protests against three banks that are the largest investors in fossil fuel infrastructure, directly financing the causes of the climate crisis. At the headquarters of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank in Manhattan, Extinction Rebellion NYC activists blocked entrances, set up tripods and even (at the JPMorgan Chase site) dropped a boat to carry the message to New Yorkers and the world, that these banks are funding the cause of the climate crisis.
Read MoreOn April 2, 2021, members of Extinction Rebellion took part in civil disobedience outside multiple banks in NYC, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, TD Bank and Citibank.
Read MoreYesterday, Extinction Rebellion NYC defended the youth, whom inaction on climate change has imperiled. The organization called out the political establishment and sharply criticized local politicians, including Mayor de Blasio and the City Council, for failing to take adequate action.
Read MoreClimate activists rallied in Central Park and Columbus Circle to protest a government that fails to protect us, amid intersecting crises of racial injustice, COVID-19 and the climate emergency.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreExtinction 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.
Read MoreThomas 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreYesterday 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.
Read MoreJoaquin 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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