Climate activists hope to bring US capital to standstill on Sep 23

WASHINGTON: Environmental groups, including Extinction Rebellion, said on Wednesday they plan to shut down traffic in Washington, DC, on Sep 23 and bring daily life to a standstill to demand action by US politicians on tackling climate change.

"This is definitely a next-level action. The urgency of climate change warrants such an attempt to disrupt business as usual ... to make it impossible for people with decision-making power to go about their daily lives as if we are not in the climate emergency," Bamberger said in an interview. Employees of large US companies are also participating in the strike. About 1,000 Amazon workers will walk out that day, a group called Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said in a piece on Medium.Thousands of supporters of the Extinction Rebellion climate activist group occupied four sites in London in April and stopped trains in one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns there in decades.

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