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Protest At Kathy Castor's Tampa Office

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International Week of Action: Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay

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Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay Presents Death and Noise for Week of Action

A call for international rebellion has been issued for between April 15th 
and April 21st

Local climate action chapter Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay has announced a calendar of actions and protests for the week beginning Monday, April 15th. The plans are part of a week of “International Rebellion” called for by Extinction Rebellion (XR), which brought its message of non-violent mass action and climate emergency to the UK in October and has since spread quickly across the globe to include tens of thousands of active participants. The primary action will be held at 10am on Friday, April 19th at Tampa City Hall, in solidarity with
 climate strike students. 

It will feature a die-in protest and funeral procession to symbolize the deadly seriousness of the climate crisis, and comes ahead of Tampa’s mayoral runoff election on April 23rd. On March 15th over 1.6 million students went on strike from school around the world to demand significant action against greenhouse gas emissions. Other events planned during the week include rallies at the Tampa office of Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Kathy Castor and at St. Petersburg City Hall, a noise demonstration at TECO headquarters in Tampa against their plans to build a fracked gas unit, and a social “Beach Uprising” event at the weekend. The full list of current details can be found at the event page.The broad intention behind the week of action is to build links between XR and other movements, and to further support for XR’s long term strategy of coordinated and sustained economic disruption to prevent climate breakdown. 

Actions are being planned in dozens of U.S. cities and around the world, including an indefinite occupation of central London and a climate action camp in Los Angeles. Previous events held locally since XR Tampa Bay was formed in November include a St. Petersburg march and mass artwork protest during a national day of action in January, and a noise demonstration against the Spring Coal Forum in Clearwater Beach in March. In the run up to the week of action the group will be holding an introductory talk at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Clearwater on April 7th, and tabling at the St. Pete Earth Day Festival on April 13.

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Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay Comes To Tampa

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Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay Noise at Clearwater Beach

Wednesday March 6th

Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay will gather at The Sandpearl Resort & Spa in Clearwater Beach to protest the Spring Coal Forum, organized by the American Coal Council. The forum is an elite 3-day networking event for senior executives of coal suppliers, utilities, transport and trading companies, designed to examine markets and public policies and strengthen the position of coal as an 
energy source. 

At a time of catastrophic climate breakdown, when science urges us to halt all fossil fuel burning as soon as possible, the coal industry cannot be allowed to continue to push its agenda unchallenged.“The American Coal Council intends to meet quietly here in Tampa Bay, so we thought we’d bring some noise,” said Extinction Rebellion coordinator 
James Lamont. 

“When our region could be uninhabitable within a few decades due to extreme weather it is an insult for them to come and enjoy our beaches and an
afternoon of golf.”

The static noise demonstration will be an attempt to inform locals of the presence of the forum, as well as tell those inside that their event is not welcome. The demo will begin at 6 pm outside the hotel while the forum hosts an evening reception. Participants are encouraged to bring their noisiest instruments, sports appliances, children and kitchen ware. HERE

Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay is a chapter of a new international movement demanding an emergency mobilization to combat climate change. 

Extinction Rebellion Goes International

On Saturday January 26th, Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay will be putting the demand for a climate state of emergency on the table. A crowd will assemble at Williams Park to partakein demonstrations emphasizing the severity of the climate crisis, and calling for immediate action. “Our time has nearly run out, and half-measures will no longer suffice,” organizer James Lamont said. “We are rallying to demand that all levels of government tell the full truth on climate change, that we reach zero carbon by 2025, and for participatory democracy to oversee the transition and ensure its success.

”The rally will begin at 10am. Demonstrators will march to several locations relevant to climate breakdown in downtown St. Petersburg, give public speeches, and make clear their intention to disrupt business as usual. This opening action will be a low-risk march (with a few visual surprises) as part of a national day of action designed to drag the climate conversation towards emergency measures.The recently released special report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included an urgent call-to-action for governments around the world to make "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" to avoid disastrous levels of global warming. This included a goal to cut global carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 (equating to a much higher cut in places such as the US), with many critics claiming that even this call did not go far enough. Despite this clear alarm, the federal government has failed to take the steps of action necessary to prevent widespread disaster. The Tampa Bay rally is one of over 20 events that will be occurring across the country to demonstrate international solidarity, and to call public attention to the danger that climate change poses to the lives of all people.These actions are all part of a new, non-violent civil disobedience movement called Extinction Rebellion. 

Extinction Rebellion came to public attention in the UK only 3 months ago with thousands participating in disruptive actions, and in that amount of time has established groups in over 35 countries and more than 25 US cities. The movement is supported by endorsements from Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, BillMcKibben (founder of 350.org), and hundreds of climate scientists. This will be the first of many actions leading up to April, when international actions will begin.For additional information. 

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Extinction Rebellion Tampa Bay

Extinction Rebellion is a Declaration of International Non-Violent Rebellion Against the World’s Governments (in our case the US) for Criminal Inaction on the Ecological Crisis. This group represents the Tampa Bay region
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