Climate Blockade - FAFO

[George K]

@Mik said in Climate Blockade - FAFO:

They didn't run over anyone.

But IMO blocking access to public throughfares is not legitimate peaceful protest.

They should have glued themselves to the Nevada pavement.

[Axtremus]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/28/burning-man-protest-climate-change-environment

Lots more background and context for the incident.

Concerning the protesters' mindsets:

[a protester commented] that the tech utopianism woven into Burning Man culture had engendered a sense of complacency amongst many of its attendees. “There are a lot of people thinking, oh, I’m a vegan, I drive an electric car, I’m working in sustainability,” she said. “ It’s a very technocratic, privileged mindset.”
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... – the activists hoped the protest would highlight how our climate emergency requires wider systemic change is needed beyond the personally transformative experiences of self-realization that can occur at a festival.

And this struck me as rather observant:

“The climate movement has reached a point where there is a split between climate mitigation through technological fixes, and climate justice that’s more oriented around systemic inequalities,” said [another protester]. “We have to shift away from Burning Man’s green capitalism and focus on degrowth.”

[George K]

All that talk on the protesters' mindsets and philosophies is...interesting.

But their right to protest ends where my right to freedom of travel begins.

[89th]

Love it. The police should quickly and forcefully remove and arrest any protester blocking a road. It's not peaceful if you are in the middle of the road blocking someone's right to travel.

[Jolly]

Forcefully?

If that one idiot hadn't quit walking towards that cop, he'd have forcefully shot her ass.

[George K]

Read the thread.

"Y'all know you haven't done the proper warnings?" said one of the climate activists in handcuffs, having expected three warnings and a chance to avoid arrest.

"We don't have to," an officer told her before all of them, including their police liaison, were taken away.

[Horace]

Could just pee on them.

[jon-nyc]

They’d probably like it.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Climate Blockade - FAFO:

They’d probably like it.

I love it when everyone wins!

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad (not too) cheap Bourbon, everywhere.

[George K]