Climate activist groups plan to “Shut Down D.C.” early Monday morning, aiming “to take action all over the district to disrupt business as usual.”
The protest follows a weekend of climate strikes across the country and coincides with the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
According to the event’s Facebook page: They “will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill.”
“Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis,” the page adds.
“This is the mass uprising that everyone with climate anxiety has been waiting for,” the event’s Facebook page continues. “This is an uprising for life itself, fighting back against the forces of destruction. This is your chance to take action to save the people, plants, and animals you love. Let’s rise to the challenge and shut down DC!”
Throughout the event, the protesters can be seen dancing in front of cars and throwing confetti into the air. When asked about the litter, one activist told Breitbart News that the confetti is “biodegradable.”
At one point, the protesters walked to the nearby Wells Fargo building to protest against the bank’s involvement in financing the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Happening Now: DC DSA and labor comrades demand climate action. Taking the street #ShutDownDC pic.twitter.com/mn2ASeyqoY
— Metro DC DSA (@mdc_dsa) September 23, 2019
Local authorities and news outlets have been trying to warn commuters of the disruption:
WASHINGTON: New York Ave NW inbound before I-395/3rd Street Tunnel – all lanes blocked at the DEMONSTRATION @nbcwashington #ShutDownDC #dctrafffic
— First4Traffic (@First4Traffic) September 23, 2019
Read more at Breitbart
It seems you have people who genuinely want to improve the environment
and climate change is the catch all basket for everyone’s anxiety .
Population control , plastic straws , globalization , socialism but the notion that
if we just stopped using fossil fuels the belief climate won’t change is a strong indication of the dumbing down of society . ..Or maybe people just enjoy
getting out bonding with fellow citizens instead of binge watching Netflix .
They can do that the other 364 days of the year …or at least the fraction
of 1 % of the worlds population that can skip school and work .
Most of the citizens are skeptical of the earth has a fever industry
and the MSM pumping its tires will contribute to a a massive win for Republicans in 2020 .
The Democrats are the New Green Deal and much of the Republican Party are closet lefties . What ever happened to the notion of balanced budgets ?
Never even mentioned yet the fiscal incompetence is going to bite hard long before humans have any meaningful effect on the earths climate .
Hey kids you are being duped by adults sinking you into a life time of debt and death of the middle class . If you want to pretend humans are in charge of the earths temperature then you have been played .
This criminal fraud called climate change needs to be exposed totally and the dishonest, lying perpetrators, of which there are many, prosecuted to the full extent allowable by law. Why do we put up with this nonsense even though it is proven time and again to be a waste of time and money?
So now these Useful Idiots will be blocking traffic forma Useful Iidiot Chain Link their arms together or hold hands but what if a Fire Truck or Ambulance had to get through and these jerks were blocking the street? And next time you see one of those Nit-Wits with a The Earth is your Mother sign Open your car window spit on the ground and tell them HERE I JUST SPAT ON YOUR MOTHER