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Hollywood stars bankroll anti-capitalist eco-warriors who blockaded Burning Man
 [NY Post] Follow up to yesterday's ClusterThese aren’t your ordinary anti-capitalist climate crusaders. Extinction Rebellion, the radical environmentalists who tried to blockade traffic to counterculture festival Burning Man on Sunday — only to be rammed aside by tribal police — are funded by some of the biggest names in Hollywood, along with an heir to the Getty fortune and outdoor retailer Patagonia. The group calls itself part of a "decentralized, international and politically non-partisan movement" demanding climate action — and until now has largely stuck to causing disruption in Europe. Under its banner, protesters have superglued themselves to the Speaker’s chair in the British parliament, blockaded busy roads — often by affixing to each other and the asphalt — and even attached themselves to the top of a plane. Allied groups in Europe have vandalized a Walmart heir’s superyacht. On Sunday the eco-warriors from Extinction Rebellion, known as XR, were one of a group of activists called Seven Circles who went after Burning Man festival-goers, setting up a blockade of a road into Black Rock City, Nev., to protest against capitalism. They wanted Burning Man leadership want a ban on private jets, as well as single-use plastics and "unnecessary propane burning," according to a statement released Sunday by Seven Circles. The festival ends by literally burning a tower. "The time has come," said XR organizer Mun Chong. "Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counterculture. If we are honest about system change, it needs to start at ’home’. "Ban the lowest hanging fruit immediately: private jets. No single individual should have the luxury of emitting 10 to 20 times more carbon pollution than a commercial airline passenger. Burners, rebel with us." The protest, however, ended when Rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department smashed through the barriers before detaining demonstrators at gunpoint, which XR called "horrifying." XR, which was first founded in the UK, receives most of its funding from individual donations. Related: Extinction Rebellion: 2023-07-03 Police given tougher powers to crackdown on eco-mob disruption: New measures allowing officers to move on static protests and 'tunnelling' becoming a criminal offence comes into force from today Extinction Rebellion: 2023-06-21 France to shut down climate NGO after protest violence Extinction Rebellion: 2023-03-26 The African power grid collapse is spreading Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-29 |
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