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Extinction Rebellion Stages “Die-In” in Downtown Santa Cruz
About two dozen people lay down across a sidewalk in downtown Santa Cruz for an hour this past Monday, dramatizing the growing crisis of species extinctions fueled by the global climate crisis, and calling for drastic action to avert environmental collapse. Most participants dressed in black costumes and wore signs featuring a species, a region, flora, or fauna that have passed into extinction or suffered mass collective trauma due to extreme weather patterns.
One sign noted that 1,000 died in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Others featured global insect populations, rainforests, beachfronts, orangutans, and white rhinos in Kenya as their emblems of the rapidly worsening crisis.
Meanwhile, organizers spoke to pedestrians at the adjacent intersection of Pacific Ave. and Cooper St. and also handed out fliers explaining the action.
The "die-in" was part of a global “climate rebellion” called by the new British climate movement Extinction Rebellion. Disruptive actions took place in more than 100 cities across over 30 countries this week, including a blockade in central London by thousands of people, which brought much of the city to a halt.
Extinction Rebellion groups in France, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, The Netherlands, the UK and numerous other countries conducted die-ins today at transport hubs, cultural landmarks, and shopping centers today (Saturday, April 27th).
The Santa Cruz die-in marked Extinction Rebellion’s Monterey Bay debut. In an event announcement, organizers focused on the climate crisis' catastrophic local effects.
Here in the Monterey Bay, “the sea stars have died, the kelp beds have died, and sea urchins are “going through feast and famine,” they wrote. “If kelp dies, urchins die, otters die... eventually we die.”
They also noted that the climate crisis is actually far more dire than mainstream discourse acknowledges. For example, the Oct. 2018 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that set a deadline of 2030 for industrial civilization to undertake a massive transition away from fossil fuels.
“The IPCC report is extremely conservative and growing obsolete day by day as new reports from the Arctic come in,” they stated. “We DO NOT have 12 years.”
The die-in was only the beginning. “We are moving quickly, but soon there will be room for all talents and skills” in this rapidly-growing movement, the announcement said.
Meanwhile, organizers spoke to pedestrians at the adjacent intersection of Pacific Ave. and Cooper St. and also handed out fliers explaining the action.
The "die-in" was part of a global “climate rebellion” called by the new British climate movement Extinction Rebellion. Disruptive actions took place in more than 100 cities across over 30 countries this week, including a blockade in central London by thousands of people, which brought much of the city to a halt.
Extinction Rebellion groups in France, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, The Netherlands, the UK and numerous other countries conducted die-ins today at transport hubs, cultural landmarks, and shopping centers today (Saturday, April 27th).
The Santa Cruz die-in marked Extinction Rebellion’s Monterey Bay debut. In an event announcement, organizers focused on the climate crisis' catastrophic local effects.
Here in the Monterey Bay, “the sea stars have died, the kelp beds have died, and sea urchins are “going through feast and famine,” they wrote. “If kelp dies, urchins die, otters die... eventually we die.”
They also noted that the climate crisis is actually far more dire than mainstream discourse acknowledges. For example, the Oct. 2018 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that set a deadline of 2030 for industrial civilization to undertake a massive transition away from fossil fuels.
“The IPCC report is extremely conservative and growing obsolete day by day as new reports from the Arctic come in,” they stated. “We DO NOT have 12 years.”
The die-in was only the beginning. “We are moving quickly, but soon there will be room for all talents and skills” in this rapidly-growing movement, the announcement said.
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Re-tool to renewable energy such as wind, tidal, and solar power transformed to electricity which is more power than all the fossil fuels combined. Some reasons for democratic renewal, elect women equally doubling democracy to allow women to make half the laws being half the specie, and re-tool the entire industrial revolution because fossil fuels are destroying the ecologcial balances of the organic webs-of-life planet wide, but mostly in the U.S.A. You all have a world to win yet. End aggressive fossil fuel pollution causing wars. Workers of the world unite!! That could end the extinction in good time yet.
Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion has said it is sorry for the wording of its online prison guide, after a backlash from civil rights activists.
More than 1,100 protesters were arrested in April, when the group shut down parts of London for 10 days, and future actions are planned.
The guide, which has now been deleted from its website, advised that the risk of violence inside prison was very low because "most prison officers are black and do not wish to give you a hard time".
It also suggested people should use their time in prison to "practise yoga" and "learn from their experience".
A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion commented: "We are aware that the experience of the contributors is not reflective of many who have experienced the criminal justice system. We have now taken it down and are in the process of reviewing it.
"We would like to apologise for the wording used in this document"
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More than 1,100 protesters were arrested in April, when the group shut down parts of London for 10 days, and future actions are planned.
The guide, which has now been deleted from its website, advised that the risk of violence inside prison was very low because "most prison officers are black and do not wish to give you a hard time".
It also suggested people should use their time in prison to "practise yoga" and "learn from their experience".
A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion commented: "We are aware that the experience of the contributors is not reflective of many who have experienced the criminal justice system. We have now taken it down and are in the process of reviewing it.
"We would like to apologise for the wording used in this document"
read more:
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