Movement to demand the actions against climate change has reached a new turn on October 14, 2022. This is a pair of London’s National Gallery paired a tomato soup in a glass in front of Vincent Vango’s “sunflower” painting.
Most people tried to attract the people’s attention by destroying famous works that did not like the sight, which was a kind of point. After a decades of peaceful protests, climate activists were not approaching what they wanted. Even if people around the world begin to experience the cool effect of climate change directly -Sweat from thermal waves and breathe exciting smoke from wildfires -the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are still increased. This is a project that the elected government has still signed new oil and gas new oil and gas. The activists felt that they had to try something different. What can we do to shake things and draw people’s attention?
The question is that President Donald Trump has taken the second term of his second term, declaring the “energy emergency” in the first speech on Monday and expanding fossil fuels. “This moment is very far away from anywhere, up to the place we want to fight,” said Keanu Arpels-Josiah, a 19-year-old organizer of Future NYC, a group-led climate activist group. I did it. A few days after the November presidential election.
When Trump first entered the White House in 2017, a new energy wave was injected into the climate activity, and it was built based on the more broader “American resistance” that opposed his policy. Once linked to protests of pipeline and the sale of universities, it began to attract a wide range of attention, along with the brand new groups led by young people, such as the sunrise and zero hours. Staging march and Occupy the parliamentary office。 Sweden’s teenager Greta Samberg began to skip school on Friday 2018, protested in the lack of government behavior, and urged teenagers around the world to participate in the “school strike.” The search for “Green New Deal” has become a popular slogan among the progressive.
However, when President Joe Biden took office in 2021, some of the energy became sick. Climate exercise has been destroyed。 Large -scale environmental organizations such as Sierra Club tried to affect the federal policy. Congress passes the largest investment in climate behavior In the US history of 2022, the steep grass root activist from the rebellion of the climate demanded more, and took several opportunities for the White House climate adviser Ali Zaidy.
“We said that most Americans were concerned about climate change, but we were looking at this very, very broken climate exercise, who had never been able to march on the street. Ta, “said Professor Dana Fisher. At American University, who has been studying climate activity for over 20 years. “It’s all over.”
As Trump returns to the White House, she hopes that the climate will start working together as they have common enemies with those who represent other progressive causes. 。 “Does the resistance rise again? Yes, Fisher said.” Does the resistance look the same? Absolutely not. ”
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The first sign of the advanced activist to respond to the new Trump administration was two days before the president was appointed. Estimated 50,000 people He participated in the People’s March in Washington DC on January 18, protested with reproductive rights, the rights of LGBTQ+, and racial justice, and protested with other causes. Of the 453 protests that the Fisher team investigated at the event, 70 % have specified climate change as one of the biggest motives for participation.
“Everything we are actually fighting is being attacked,” said Aspers Josia. “I don’t think there are any options to organize at such a moment, right?” His organization, Future NYC Friday Convergence of youth justice On March 1st, we will discuss how to promote changes in New York at the local level and the state level.
Climate activists have expressed their appetite to challenge something new, but have not canceled the overall strategy for the next four years. “There is no doubt that we have had a hard time turning a march and a large amount of mobilization into a meaningful political change that changes people’s lives in one place,” said the Green New Deal Network campaign and political director. Saul Levin said Saul Levin, a climate coalition. , Labor, judicial organization. “And we are testing a variety of things, not to give up these methods.” Levin did not provide details about what the Union would try. He said that he would not dominate tactics because of the different approaches.
In recent years, activists have blocked traffic on the street, sprayed stonehenge, and interrupted the event to be ashamed of politicians who call them “climate criminals.” These are signs that climate exercise is growing.Radical side“More confrontation, more destructive derivative. Experts say citizens’ dissatisfaction, Even if it’s alienated peopleSometimes, focus on the cause and make it look more socially accepted by the Tamer’s protest. It is not the same as establishing the cause and result, but the anecdote suggests that there is something in the idea. For example, two weeks after an activist who spent a week to block traffic in London in November 2022, the British people are more likely to support friends in the Earth. Is discovered. According to the survey Last fall.
“The climate activists will definitely stay peaceful, but they are not destructive,” Fisher said. Trump administration that can provide hostile behavior More fuel for groups such as climate rebellionThe activists are frequently arrested by confronting oil executives and politicians.
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Of course, citizens’ dissatisfaction is one tool among many people, and activists are approaching a more popular format, such as rally, to attract a large number of people. “We need everyone now, and we need a bigger coalition that we have seen or have seen before to build true power in climate. Levin said in a massive organizationalization to the climate group the day after taking office. “And it starts with gathering people in the community and building people’s power by people.” In February, the climate behavior campaign, which is a coalition of the environment and health institutions, has a “climate cannot wait” rally. We are planning to hold it. Atlanta,, Pittsbergand DetroitWe want to mobilize the largest people as possible to demand the action.
ARU SHINEY-AJAY, an executive director of the Sunrise Movement, has cooperated with many actions with Los Angeles organizers in response to recent devastation caused by landscapes. One week before the inauguration of the President, the members of the LA hub, which are in the sunrise, led a few days demonstration outside of the Philips 66 petroleum facilities in Carson, California, and the fossil fuels will “pay” to contribute to the climate crisis. I requested that. Recent fire has occurred More danger。
“If we really win, truly change the tide of society, and keep the economy from the most powerful industries in history, we have the hopes that we actually need. SHINEY-AJAY has to build a target for power in a climate group calling for powerful people.
During the five -day protest outside the Philips 66 facility, the neighbor stopped by to show their support. And even the petroleum pursuit guards, according to SHINEY-AJAY, they told the group they agree. “This is the most meaningful moment,” she said. In the aftermath of the wildfire, sitting has created an opportunity to meet “people who have never encountered a climate movement at the gateway before receiving support.”
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The sunrise movement is inspired by the historical examples of people who are upset due to changes, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. United Auto Worker Union striked in Michigan in the 1930sAccording to Deja Powell, Sunrise membership director. “When looking at changes and conversions [in society]Many of them come from work: 40 hours a week, weekends, paid sick leave. ” “It comes from confusion or threatening capital.”
Powell stated that the organization was built based on the success of a school strike on Friday, which began in 2018, and was trying to experiment with a one -month student strike. The group also seems to be preparing for direct action efforts. Sunrise members have recently suspended hearing hearing for Trump candidates to operate the energy department. According to SHINEY-AJAY, politicians are not onset. “We have a saying,” There are no permanent friends, there are no permanent enemies. ” The executive director said that the organization pulled out the line in violent protests, but was opened in tactics.
Despite the peaceful nature of these types of demonstrations, Fishers need to be prepared by climate organizers. Protesting crackdownPossibility Repression and violence。 “We think that we are going to see the Trump administration is to make sure and potentially push back to all forms of protests and push back violently,” she said. “And it will escalate what will happen on the street immediately.” In addition, for the past 10 years More than 20 states have passed the law The increase in penalties for protests near the so -called important infrastructure, such as petroleum and gas facilities, can be punished in prison for years.
According to Levin of the Green New Deal network, some of the training, which climate activists have participated in the past few months, have focused on relieving non -violent direct behavior and tension. “I think it is necessary to set a new tool and refresh training because the chaos and repression levels born from this extremist administration are completely unpredictable.”
In the confusion, climate exercise is looking for updated messages as well as new tactics. Some economic concerns are believed to have driven Trump into the presidential position, such as inflation Rising living expensesLevin said it is related to climate change. He said that a fire in LA is an example of how these disasters threaten the livelihood and economic safety of people. “We’ve been talking about these things for years, but we need to update them.”
SHINEY-AJAY faces the climate crisis and cities, such as the price of runaway rent, the need for a more resilient infrastructure, and the opportunity to take more people to the movement. I think it is an opportunity to connect the points with pressure. “People want to believe or have something to believe,” she said. Actions like the Philips 66 Oil Office help it.
“Here, it will be humanitarian and kind after a disaster, help you to improve your life, believe in your government, and believe in a better world,” says Shiney-Ajay. The challenge of exercise is to “hold it in contrast to the vision of the world proposed by Trump.”
