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Dozens of Climate Change Agitators Arrested After Storming White House, Blocking Entrances
American Greatness ^ | June 29, 2021 | Debra Heine

Posted on 06/29/2021 1:36:53 PM PDT by Heartlander

Dozens of Climate Change Agitators Arrested After Storming White House, Blocking Entrances

Dozens of left-wing activists from a climate change political action group were arrested by Secret Service agents on Monday after they marched to the White House and blocked entrances as part of a #NoClimateNoDeal protest. Agitators from the far-left, Soros-funded Sunrise Movement were reportedly demanding that Joe Biden stop negotiating with Republican politicians, meet with Sunrise executive director Varshini Prakash, and include a fully funded “Civilian Climate Corps” in the infrastructure bill.

Today we showed up to @JoeBiden’s doorstep with 500+ people and blockaded every entrance to the white house, demanding that he include a fully funded #CivilianClimateCorps in his infrastructure bill.

Secret Service then arrested dozens of us. pic.twitter.com/hpBSrhnhF1

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) June 28, 2021

At least some of the agitators were reportedly quickly released, after blocking the White House entrances.

When you are funded by the Democrat party, it’s not an “insurrection” pic.twitter.com/7QV4UTgQm8

— Ricardo “Dick” Whitman (34) — 🌍 / 21M (@DickWhitman_BTC) June 29, 2021

Biden announced a $579 billion bipartisan compromise on the infrastructure bill last week, but likely killed the deal when he revealed that he was tying it to his wildly profligate $6 trillion budget proposal.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) backed Biden’s proposal in a statement last week. “It’s as I said. There won’t be an infrastructure bill unless we have a reconciliation bill, plain and simple. … There ain’t going to be an infrastructure bill unless we have the reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate,” she said.

The Sunrise Movement leader demanded that “trillions of dollars in climate investments” be included in the bill. “If Biden and Democrats do not pass and sign trillions of dollars in climate investments including a massive Civilian Climate Corps through a Democratic reconciliation bill, progressives in Congress and in the streets will reject any bullshit deal that propels us into climate catastrophe,” Prakash said.

Hundreds of protesters, along with several Democrat politicians, reportedly blocked all ten entrances to the White House.

 

Our demands to @POTUS: #NoClimateNoDeal. No Compromises. No Excuses. LET’S GO 🗣🗣🗣 pic.twitter.com/6aMVlzZy5b

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) June 28, 2021

"Right now, 500 young people are enroute to barricade all 10 entrances to the White House to demand you, Pres. Joe Biden, act on your elected mandate of climate justice & only pass an American Jobs Plan that includes necessarily ambitious solutions to the crisis…" https://t.co/5gkOgkac2J

— Tess Townsend (@Tess_Townsend) June 28, 2021

.⁦@sunrisemvmt⁩ right now has groups blocking all 10 entrances to the #whitehouse demanding ⁦@POTUS⁩ meet #CCC #climate #CivilianClimateCorps pic.twitter.com/oaTayFfXTk

— Cynthia Changyit Levin (@ccylevin) June 28, 2021

As Breitbart News reported, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) was among the Democrat lawmakers who joined activists outside of the White House, demanding the Biden administration “to go big and bold and visionary for our country and for our future and for our planet”:

.@JamaalBowmanNY here with us to put pressure on @POTUS and his admin to go big for a bold and visionary CCC and infrastructure bill 📣 pic.twitter.com/yO5bkD3o20

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) June 28, 2021

Far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) also joined the law-breaking mob outside of the White House.

“What we are here to tell them is that you can’t break this promise to us anymore,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They’re setting up a world that they won’t have to live in. Ok, that’s why this matters. That’s why we fight.”

“As a result of your hard work, we’ve got folks in the Senate, we’ve got folks in the House, not just me, not just like they like to say is a tiny group of the ‘Squad’ … we have a critical mass of people saying no climate, no deal,” she added.

.@AOC: "What we are here to tell them is that you can't break this promise to us anymore." #NoClimateNoDeal pic.twitter.com/c9wXFweII3

— act.tv (@actdottv) June 28, 2021

“We have seen dangerous heat events obliterating the northwest in record numbers, and we see that it’s coming up again over the next few days in places where they don’t even have AC,” Rep. Bush said.

“People are suffering. People are dying because of our problem that society created. Society created the problem, and so society has to fix it,” she added.

"Sometimes you gotta show up." Thank you for stepping up for environmental justice, @CoriBush! pic.twitter.com/q0T6pVjvIl

— act.tv (@actdottv) June 28, 2021

 

The Sunrise Movement—which launched in 2017, as a 501(c)(4)—is largely funded by dark money, including a $250,000 donation from George Soros’ Democracy PAC in April of 2020.

Democracy PAC is a Super PAC started by and entirely funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and Fund For Policy Reform, the latter being a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that falls under the Open Society umbrella, on which Soros and two of his sons have seats on the board.

The group describes itself as a grassroots organization “building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America.”


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To: Heartlander

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21 posted on 06/29/2021 2:43:59 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: Heartlander

Was AOC arrested ? She was leading it


22 posted on 06/29/2021 4:39:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Heartlander

“”next few days in places where they don’t even have AC,” Rep. Bush said.””

WHERE?


23 posted on 06/29/2021 4:45:03 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Heartlander

Insurrection, right?


24 posted on 06/29/2021 4:57:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Thank You Rush

We didn’t have AC in our house when we were growing up. If it got over 90 during the day, we just all went and slept in the downstairs “rec-room” because it was the coolest part of the house. Had a couple of fans going and that was that. We didn’t even “hydrate” back then.

My Nana’s row-house in downtown Philly got even hotter ... 2 tiny side windows for a little cross-breeze if we were lucky. She would wet the sheets in cold water and then lay them over us and we were just fine once we fell asleep.


25 posted on 06/29/2021 7:26:54 PM PDT by twyn1
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