07 October 2019

EXTINCTION REBELLION XR : Raising More Awareness For Climate Change In More Than 60 Places Around The World


Extinction Rebellion

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Extinction Rebellion is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to compel government action on climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse
That's right - there's even a group here in Phoenix!

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Like most things it all had to start somewhere
"Whole businesses have been built on trashing our Earth — the very thing that feeds us, that gives us air," she says. "Many scientists are telling us that we are already in the sixth mass extinction."
Katerina Hasapopoulos, 41, the daughter of immigrants and once a power-lunching marketing director, joined her local environmental group in Stroud, a bohemian town of activists tucked into the rolling hills and daffodils of the Cotswolds in the south of England. That group, Extinction Rebellion, has now grown from a small-town band of determined neighbors super-gluing themselves to local city council buildings to a global movement of environmental demonstrators disrupting dozens of cities so policymakers will address climate change immediately. The group has kicked off protests again on Monday — including blocking traffic and landmarks and occupying government buildings, leading to hundreds of arrests in New York, London, Sydney and Amsterdam — and it plans to continue mobilizing for the next two weeks. 
You can read more and listen/download a 04:28 podcast or read the entire report from National Public Radio > 

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767711216 

"This is a matter of life and death. Our Earth is dying. Our Earth dies, we die. It's just really that simple."
Fighting for something so huge, she says, can't be done by standing on sidewalks with banners.
"That just doesn't work," she says. "The situation is extreme and we need to match that with extreme tactics. I actually don't think we are extreme enough."
Protesters marched from the Houses of Parliament down Whitehall [Ylenia Gostoli/Al Jazeera]

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Protesters douse Wall Street bull with fake blood
By Justine Calma  
Scenes from Extinction Rebellion protests 
in New York City
By Justine Calma  
Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales
Wall Street’s Charging Bull statue was doused in fake blood this morning by environmental protestors. A woman with the group Extinction Rebellion stood atop the bloodied bull waving the group’s green flag; other protesters, also splattered with the red liquid, staged a sit-in around the statue. The New York City Police Department arrested roughly 20 people there.The day of protests began with a staged funeral march from nearby Battery Park to the bull statue. Demonstrators mostly wore funeral black, but some participants who called themselves the “Red Brigade” wore scarlet robes. The robes, they said, represented the blood of all species facing extinction as a result of climate change. It’s all part of coordinated protests taking place today across 60 cities around the world.
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