Posted on 06/22/2019 5:56:53 PM PDT by simpson96
MIDTOWN, NY — Dozens of people were arrested during a climate change protest in Times Square outside The New York Times building on Saturday.
Demonstrators staged a die-in in front of the newspaper building and hung a banner on the facade. The Guardian reported that the protest briefly blocked Eighth Avenue between Port Authority and the Times building.
Photos and videos posted to social media showed a group of people lying on the ground outside the newspaper's office. Some protesters climbed on the awning of the Times building to hang signs.
Amanda Holpuch, a reporter for The Guardian, noted that the sign hung outside the Times building demanded that the paper refer to climate change as a "climate emergency," a term recently adopted by the Guardian.
The protest was led by a group called "Extinction Rebellion," which is committed addressing the issue of climate change.
On its website, the group has a number of demands for the media in covering the climate crisis, inclduing use terms like "climate destruction" or "climate emergency" as opposed to "climate change." The group also says that stories about the climate crisis should be on the front page daily.
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“Amanda Holpuch, a reporter for The Guardian, noted that the sign hung outside the Times building demanded that the paper refer to climate change as a “climate emergency,” a term recently adopted by the Guardian.”
Quite a coincidence that a Guardian reporter was there to cover a hardcore ecofreak event where the ecofreaks insisted that the Slimes use the same Commie propagandese as the Guardian. One might conclude that the Guardian was not so much reporting on, as sponsoring, this group of leftist agitators.
“climate emergency,”
Must be why it snowed in the high country yesterday and probably today.
Good.
It is why they have record snows in CA.
Guardian’s George Monbiot is basically the father of Extinction Rebellion.
15 Apr: Guardian: Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
by George Monbiot
No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience
18 Apr 2019: Apologists for poverty
There is nothing progressive in green calls to overthrow capitalism.
A BBC podcast asks if Extinction Rebellion are ‘the new Suffragettes’...
Last week, left-wing new media outlet Novara Media posted on social media a video of veteran eco-warrior George Monbiot. In it, Monbiot calls for an end to green tinkering and the ‘micro-consumerist bollocks’ of sustainable cotton buds, etc. Instead, he says, ‘we need to get to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it’. The audience cheered...
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/18/apologists-for-poverty/
If they really want to make an impact they really need to kill themselves and not just fake it.
Caption should read;
While Snowstorms were raging in north country a staged protest claiming climate warming disaster by protesters using pseudo science claims perform a mock protest in front of impending climate doom supporter New York Times.
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