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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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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As radical as XR’s first two demands are--to “tell the truth” and to “end all CO2 emissions by 2025”--the most revolutionary demand of all is the one requiring a Citizens’ Assembly to determine how we respond to the climate and ecological emergency.
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On Monday, In a collaboration with Sunrise NYC, activists from Extinction Rebellion NYC protested the likely removal of bold climate legislation from the Build Back Better Act. This bill may be our last, best chance at preventing catastrophic climate change, and we take seriously the sidelining of important climate provisions like the Clean Electricity Payment Program. That’s why our action on Monday was so dramatic -- because our city’s, and our world’s, future is at stake.
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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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