Climate Youths Arrested: More Than 655 People Arrested This Week

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From: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/10/climate-youths-arrested-more-than-650.html

Under a banner declaring "We did not vote for fossil fuels", Indigenous and youth climate activists led a march to the Capitol today for a mass civil disobedience action, demanding Congress and the Biden Administration take urgent action to stop all new fossil fuel projects and launch a just renewable energy revolution. 90 people were arrested on the fifth and final day of the People vs. Fossil Fuels mobilization, bringing the total arrested during the week of action to 655.

Throughout four days of action at the White House, the "People vs. Fossil Fuels" mobilization pressed President Biden to stop approving new fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency to equitably deploy clean, renewable energy solutions and deliver on his commitments to climate and environmental justice and Indigenous rights. The call to action was extended to Congress today, with demonstrators urging elected officials to listen to the people who sent them to Washington and take urgent action to support the phase out of fossil fuels.

"I came here to stand with my people to give voice to future generations", said 10-year old Love Hopkins of the Standing Rock Youth Council. Hopkins was part of a group of Indigenous youth runners who ran from Standing Rock to Washington, D.C. in 2016 when she was six years old. "For years the US government has been lying and giving false hopes to our First Nations people. We want answers and we want them now. If this is the land of the free and the land of opportunity, why can't we have that? Why can't we have clean drinking water?"