Youth Climate Activists Risking Arrest in Washington

Now Friday: 5th Day of People vs. Fossil Fuel actions in Washington. BREAKING: Youth activists risking arrest in front of the US Capitol. https://twitter.com/i/status/1449040661894864897

Friday, noon hour in Washington.

"This is our reality. Generation after generation we fight for the Earth," said Jennifer Falcon, photographer. "Native youth are blocking the street outside of the capital risking arrest to demand

Joe Biden declare a climate emergency."

Situation evolving now. Cops have formed a human circle around the youth climate activists. Zip ties and handcuffs visible.

#PeopleVsFossilFuels is outside the Capitol. 10:04 AM · Oct 15, 2021

Livestream on Facebook: Climate youths blocking street to Capitol. Watch video from Friday.

https://www.facebook.com/oohenumpa.pejitowakpa.3/videos/371807768013268

From the Gulf of Finland to the Arctic Circle, Zapatistas link with Sami and Finland's Struggles

Meeting with the Sápmi people inside a large Lavvu tent.
Photo: Suomi Armadillo Collective

From the Gulf of Finland to the Arctic Circle, the Zapatistas link  with Finland's Struggles.

Grieta Collective

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More photos and video at:

https://www.grieta.org.mx/index.php/2021/10/10/del-golfo-de-finlandia-al-circulo-polar-artico-la-extemporanea-zapatista-se-enlaza-con-las-luchas-de-finlandia/

October 10, 2021 - Traveling from end to end of Finland, the Zapatista delegation "La Extemporánea" has met with collectives, organizations and individuals learning about their struggles and resistances, learning and exchanging experiences. The Armadillo Suomi Collective of Finland has documented and shared different moments of this journey that has taken the indigenous Mayan rebels from Helsinki on the shores of the Gulf of Finland to the territory of the Sami people, within the Arctic Circle, in the town of Ohcejohka, where the borders of capital mark the boundary between Finland and Norway.

Fifty-five Water Protectors Arrested Occupying Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington

                         

Fifty-five Water Protectors Arrested Occupying BIA in Washington Today

Photos by Jennifer Falcon

About half of the group occupying the BIA in Washington have been taken out by police. -- Jennifer Falcon on Twitter, 2:15 pm, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021

Watch video by Jennifer Falcon on Twitter

https://twitter.com/i/status/1448691241697357830

More video on Twitter from inside Occupied BIA: 

People vs. Fossil Fuels, Day 4 of Action in Washington

https://twitter.com/i/status/1448689189562851335

NOW! Outside Interior where about 50 people are occupying the BIA. Resist Line 3 said, "BREAKING: cops are brutally shoving pipeline activists at the Department of Interior - where Sec. Deb Haaland refuses to use her power to Stop Line3."

https://twitter.com/i/status/1448695245202464771

Five minutes ago: Jennifer K. Falcon on Twitter:
"Police have given their first warning inside the Bureau of Indian Affairs as over fifty water protectors have occupied the building demanding JoeBiden take immediate action on climate change and #stopline3" Oct. 14, 1:20 pm in Washington.NOW! "More Indigenous leaders and their allies have breached the Bureau of Indian Affairs. There are over 50 people occupying the building now." -- Jennifer Falcon on Twitter, the noon hour in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.

 

                                                   Day 4: People vs. Fossil Fuels March on Washington

WASHINGTON -- 90 More Arrested as Victims of Climate Chaos Descend on White House

Climate justice and Indigenous activist Siqiñiq Maupin of Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic joins a protest against fossil fuels in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on October 13, 2021. (Photo: Eman Mohammed/Survival Media Agency)

90 More Arrested as Victims of Climate Chaos Descend on White House

"People are dying rapidly," said one campaigner battling a proposed petrochemical complex in a polluted region of Louisiana. "President Biden… you are letting us down."

JESSICA CORBETT

October 13, 2021
Common Dreams

Another 90 people were arrested outside the White House on Wednesday as residents and supporters of communities on the frontlines of climate chaos joined a week of action ramping up pressure on President Joe Biden to deliver on his campaign promises.

"How much longer will the future of our communities be on the shoulders of citizens without the backing of our elected officials?"

Nearly 300 people have been arrested over the past three days, according to organizers of the #PeopleVsFossilFuels, who are calling on the president to block all new fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency.

The theme of Wednesday's protest was "climate chaos is happening now." People from Alaska, California, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas shared how fossil fuel development and extreme weather exacerbated by rising temperatures are affecting their communities.