A duo of climate change protests took over downtown 麻豆传媒映画Friday afternoon.
Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画staged a funeral procession and wake for the planet downtown Friday afternoon. Photo Dan Toulgoet
The Sustainabiliteens group held its monthly Friday Global Climate Strike on Granville Street between Georgia and Dunsmuir. The event included a dance party, clothing swap and a round dance 鈥� a healing ceremony that became a social dance for Indigenous people.
鈥淲e are coming together to prove we have solutions for the climate crisis,鈥� the group said on the Facebook event page. 鈥淭his crisis is not the fault of individual actions, but rather society鈥檚 failure to recognize our interconnectedness with each other and the earth 鈥� as exemplified by Black Friday.鈥�
A second protest organized by Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画also took aim at Black Friday.
Hundreds of activists took to the streets staging a funeral march and wake for 鈥渇uneral service for the future of our planet, our ecosystems, and for the lives lost in the climate crisis.鈥�
Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画staged a funeral procession and wake for the planet downtown Friday afternoon. Photo Dan Toulgoet
The procession, complete with a casket that carried the message 鈥淐hange or die,鈥� made its way through downtown and into Pacific Centre mall for a die in.
鈥淭his solemn demonstration of grief will disrupt the business as usual on consumerism鈥檚 holiest day. Our goal is to send a strong message to our local and provincial government that they need to start offering more than nice words in this climate crisis, or prepare for mass non-violent civil disobedience,鈥� Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画spokesperson Grace Grignon said Thursday in a press release.
Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画staged a funeral procession and wake for the planet downtown Friday afternoon. Photo Dan Toulgoet
麻豆传媒映画Police say Between 12 and 7 p.m., police were forced to arrest six people for mischief after they stopped traffic and erected structures blocking a main intersection.聽 Protestors perched themselves on top of the structures and refused to leave the area, despite several requests, and then warnings, from officers.
The protest was peaceful with no major incidents until the arrests.聽
Extinction Rebellion 麻豆传媒映画staged a funeral procession and wake for the planet downtown Friday afternoon. Photo Dan Toulgoet
