“Vote is not enough anymore.” In Paris, Rebellion extinction starts in a massive action of civil disobedience

A thousand protesters blocked since Saturday the Porte Saint-Denis to denounce the climate inaction of the leaders and propose a future “livable and just for all”.

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Piano tunes at the accordion sound. The time appears at the party in the center of Paris, Saturday, April 16th. At a detail: the wooden instrument is installed in the middle of a road released from cars and activists are hooked to its handles using anti-thefts attached to their necks.

In the inter-tower of the presidential elevator, more than a thousand protesters of the rebellion extinction movement, from France, have invested the surroundings of the Porte Saint-Denis in order to denounce the “inaction Dangerous climate “leaders and propose a future” livable and just for all “.

In this operation of civil disobedience called “the inevitable rebellion”, they launched a “big agora” to put the climate at the center of the debates. They hope to hold their blockage for three days, camping on the spot. This is the largest mobilization of the movement, accustomed to actions of fist, since the occupation of the Châtelet Square in Paris in 2019.

Rebellion extinction activists hang up in height on an installation they call a structure in
Rebellion extinction activists hang up in height on an installation they call a structure in “tensegrity”, in Paris, April 16, 2022. Benjamin Carrot for “L E world “

Saturday, under a great sun, float in the air a myriad of yellow, green, red or pink flags, sporting the recognizable logo of” XR “: the hourglass to The interior of the circle of the earth, painted in black. At the ends of the streets, “rebels”, as they nominate, are for some early on hay boots, for other attached together by “ARM-LOCKS” who maintain their arms, or sitting, meditating, face to the forces of the order massaged around the action. Two activists evolve in height in a “tensegrity” structure, made of bamboo and cables, which seems to defy gravity but also the police. The blockage arouses the curiosity of the onlookers but also the annoyance or anger of some traders, who fear the disorder.

“Governments under the weight of the lobbies”

Activists, mostly young, denounce “sick democracy” and leaders guilty of “incurity” against the climatic peril. “It’s been thirty-four years since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCEC] exists and alerts us, but governments, which are under the weight of the lobbies, do not act,” a sebastien, a 46-year-old Parisian director, who prefers not to give his last name, like a lot of “rebels”. In the militant viewfinder: the capitalist “essence destructive” system, the richest 10% that concentrate 75% of wealth and emit 52% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, or the oil pipeline project Giant EACOP, from Totalnergies, between Uganda and Tanzania.

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