Extinction Rebellion NYC Protests City Hall’s Inaction on Anniversary of Emergency Climate Resolution, and Joins City Hall Occupation by Vocal-NY

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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Extinction Rebellion Northeast Earth Rebellion

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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Roger Hallam Announces US Book Tour, Intends to Tell The Truth to Inspire Mass Mobilization: “Hell Is on the Way”

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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Earth Week 2020 Events Announced!

XR NYC is participating in Earth Week 2020, a 3-day earth-love extravaganza organized by a coalition of different groups, including Sunrise, PCM, NY Renews and more. We will continue to update you with more details in the following weeks, but here’s what you need to know now: 

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At the American Museum of Natural History, Extinction Rebellion NYC Creates a “Living Diorama” Commemorating a Soon-to-Be-Extinct Species: Homo Sapiens

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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Beginning 2020 with Rebellion, Regeneration, and Inspiration

2020 promises to be a critical year for our beautiful and devastated planet. We rang in the new year with blood, fire, and an echoing silence from our delinquent governments. These events have only strengthened our resolve to keep up the fight against ecological collapse and raise our voices for those that have none. As always, we’re continually overwhelmed and inspired by the bravery and creativity our fellow rebels have shown in the face of such global atrocities. We truly could not do this without you.

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