Extinction Rebellion, the group that calls for mass civil disobedience to provoke action to avert the worst of the climate crisis, is back with its largest U.S. campaign ever: 11 days of demonstrations aimed at disrupting New York City. caseyquack reports
Activists rehearse nonviolent civil-disobedience tactics at an Extinction Rebellion information session in early April. Photo: Elizabeth Bick If you’re planning to be arrested at a protest, do not bring your wallet. Only your ID, a credit card, and maybe some cash for the cab ride home. Everything else will be taken from you, including menstrual products. If you must bring your phone, disable its biometric-unlock feature so police can’t use your finger or face to open it.
“I was ready to get arrested,” Henry told the crowd, moving to the pulpit to explain their conversion to climate activism. A teacher at a progressive private school in Cobble Hill , Henry recounted giving a lesson on the civil-rights movement and showing their students photographs of sit-ins and arrests. They felt like an immense hypocrite, lauding these activists yet doing nothing for a cause they know to be just as right: the climate crisis.
Then the group’s momentum slammed into the COVID-19 lockdown. The session in the church was XR’s first mass in-person training in the city since the pandemic started, and those who attended were eager to make up for lost time. Presleigh Hayashida, a 26-year-old civil engineer, was drawn to XR because she is fed up with what feels like decades of inaction — she pointed to Biden’s failed push for climate legislation in Build Back Better — and afraid of the future of her four younger siblings.
Photographs by Elizabeth Bick, Elizabeth Bick Arrest is not the only way for supporters to participate in XR. Landowne drew a large whiteboard out to the center of the church’s transept and began calling on the crowd for ideas for protest roles. People shouted out possibilities as Landowne scribbled them on the board: police liaison, legal support, jail support. “We have a reputation for having really kick-ass jail support!” she said as she wrote it out, the crowd cheering and clapping along.
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