“Hey Feds! We’re not impressed!No rides, no rest!” About 20 of us XR rebels and friends gathered in front of the Marriott Hotel on Naito Parkway to serve notice to the hotel chain: Feds Go … Read more
After nearly two months of telling the Portland Police that Black Lives Matter, the Trump administration came to take a big swing at Portland and missed so hard they hit themselves in the back of … Read more
Last week, we put out a call asking for people’s thoughts about what XRPDX should be doing during the George Floyd Uprising, a movement that’s in line with XR’s values and methods but appears to … Read more
Hey, it’s your faithful editor here. We’re currently in the middle of a transformative moment in history. What we’re seeing is not a series of protests, but an uprising, possibly a sea change, about systemic … Read more
The IPCC says we have 10 years to stop climate change. They’re wrong. We have six months. In the decades since we’ve known climate catastrophe is coming, why have we activists accomplished so little? It’s … Read more
On Friday, May 29, following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I attended the moving “Eulogy for Black America” rally organized by the NAACP at Shrunk Plaza with about 150 masked-up sisters and … Read more
Why is Extinction Rebellion writing about George Floyd? Because the fate of the world depends on it. XR is considered to be a relatively radical environmental group, but we are committed to nonviolent civil disobedience. … Read more