{"id":436164,"date":"2022-04-23T03:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T00:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-is-extinction-rebellion-nyc\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T03:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T00:30:28","slug":"what-is-extinction-rebellion-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extinction-rebellion-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"#What is Extinction Rebellion NYC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2edcd616496\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2edcd616496\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-extinction-rebellion-nyc\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_is_Extinction_Rebellion_NYC%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;What is Extinction Rebellion NYC?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_is_Extinction_Rebellion_NYC%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;What is Extinction Rebellion NYC?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The climate-change activists busted outside The Post\u2019s printing plant are tied to a British group whose celebrity supporters were shamed into admitting their hypocrisy for enjoying \u201chigh carbon lives\u201d and profiting from industries with \u201chuge carbon footprints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, Extinction Rebellion NYC founded in December 2018 and was inspired by the actions of Extinction Rebellion protesters in the UK, which glued their hands to the gates of Buckingham Palace and a 6,000-person blockade of Thames River bridges.<\/p>\n<p>The British group \u2014 which is separate from its New York counterpart \u2014 also made themselves notorious for actions such as s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ping themselves down to their undies and gluing themselves to a glass partition in the public gallery of the UK\u2019s House of Commons. <\/p>\n<p>And in a forerunner to Friday\u2019s protest in Queens, UK Extinction demonstrators disrupted the printing and delivery of British <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But a 2019 expose revealed that the group didn\u2019t live up to its own high standards, with co-founder Gail Bradbrook found to have bragged on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> about jetting off on a high-carbon Costa Rica vacation in 2016, during which she reportedly dreamed up the idea for the activist movement while tripping on psychedelic plants.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-684.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Extinction Rebellion activists. \" class=\"wp-image-22008834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-684.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-684.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-684.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The effort from Extinction Rebellion resulted in multiple arrests and delayed deliveries of the papers. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is blind hypocrisy from a group that\u2019s spent days blighting people\u2019s travel plans,\u201d Paul Scully, a Conservative Party member of Parliament, fumed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The outrage led more than 100 high-profile XR supporters \u2014 including \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke and U2 bassist Adam Clayton \u2014 to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/2019\/10\/16\/celebrities-backing-extinction-rebellion-say-yes-we-are-all-hypocrites-in-open-letter-to-media\/\">sign an open letter<\/a> addressed to the \u201cjournalists who have called us hypocrites.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re right. We live high carbon lives and the industries that we are part of have huge carbon footprints,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also said that \u201ccalling us hypocrites will not silence us\u201d and urged those in the news media to \u201ceducate yourselves\u201d about climate change and \u201cuse your voices fearlessly to amplify the real story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although he didn\u2019t sign the letter, \u201cStar Wars\u201d actor Harrison Ford \u2014  who likes to engage in the<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2015\/03\/05\/harrison-ford-crashes-plane-into-la-golf-course\/\"> environmentally unfriendly hobby of private aviation<\/a> \u2014 is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/2019\/07\/23\/if-we-dont-protect-nature-we-cant-protect-ourselves-harrison-ford-july-2019-5mins\/\">celebrated by the New York chapter of XR <\/a>on its website, which contains a video 2019 plea by Ford to save the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>But even that didn\u2019t stop members of the group\u2019s Bristol branch from donning Star Wars costumes to infiltrate and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/star-wars-rise-skywalker-premiere-21125858\">disrupt the London premiere<\/a> of \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d later that year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-681.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"An activist is arrested \" class=\"wp-image-22008829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-681.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-681.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-681.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cops arrested 13 XR NYC members at a Queens printing press, which is used by News Corp to print The Post and Wall Street Journal \u2014 and also by The New York Times and USA Today\u2019s publisher Gannett.<br \/><\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>XR NYC was incorporated as the nonprofit Extinction Rebellion Organizing Committee by Brooklyn environmental artist Eve Mosher, according to documents filed with the state Department of State in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Records filed with the state Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a>\u2019s Office identify the group\u2019s founding president as Rory Varrato, who was among those busted early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His personal website calls him \u201ca green revolutionary anarcho-communist and anti-imperialist\u201d who grew up in a \u201cworking class family\u201d in rural Pennsylvania and won a National Merit Scholarship to study American history at Arizona State University, where he also earned a master\u2019s degree in political theory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-679.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Protest set up at New York Times, New York Post distribution center. \" class=\"wp-image-22008827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-679.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-679.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-679.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The distribution center in Whitestone, Queens, was blocked by activists on Earth Day. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 2016, Varrato has been pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy and education from Columbia University\u2019s Teachers College, according to the site, which is adorned with the motto, \u201cTeaching is a subversive activity, and I stay active.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Mosher \u2014 who in 2017 created a public artwork by drawing a blue chalk line and installing beacons in parks to mark where the city\u2019s coastline will be if the sea level rises by 10 feet \u2014 was the group\u2019s founding treasurer, according to official records.<\/p>\n<p>The board also included director Christina See of Edgewater, N.J., whose LinkedIn profile says she was formerly the lighting crew chief for the alternative rock band Wilco, and secretary Joseph Hamilton, who public records say now lives in Worcester, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Records show the group began raising money in March 2019 but it hasn\u2019t filed any tax-exempt returns with the AG\u2019s Office and it doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to have registered with the IRS, as required of public charities.<\/p>\n<p>A link on its website also shows more than $5,600 in contributions for its \u201cExtinction Rebellion Fund 2022\u201d through\u00a0chuffed.org, an online company with offices in Australia and the UK.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-682.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"An activist with Extinction Rebellion is suspended in the air during a protest in Queens. \" class=\"wp-image-22008830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-682.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-682.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-682.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-682.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>An activist with Extinction Rebellion is suspended in the air during a protest in Queens. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>None of the founding board members returned emails seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>XR NYC has staged protests that include a rowdy, June 2019 march to the New York Times building, where nearly 70 people were busted after several demonstrators climbed onto a steel-and-glass awning.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2019, 90 activists were arrested during a protest that involved dousing the famed \u201cCharging Bull\u201d statue near Wall Street with fake blood and staging a \u201cdie-in\u201d at its hooves.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-683.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Trucks were delayed with delivering newspapers due to the blockade. \" class=\"wp-image-22008832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-683.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-683.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/extinction-rebellion-683.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Trucks were delayed with delivering newspapers due to the blockade. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThrowing blood on the bull is tying climate change directly back to the financial industry, which is financing fossil-fuel infrastructure,\u201d See said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The group also snarled traffic around Times Square days later by parking a green boat bearing the words \u201cACT NOW\u201d on a trailer at the intersection of West 44th Street and Broadway, leading to more than 60 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The following month, more than two dozen EX NYC activists were arrested for a Black Friday sit-in at Herald Square to protest consumerism and climate change, and last year an XR member, Kevin Clarke, shattered his pelvis and broke his right elbow while trying to scale the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase on Madison Avenue.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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