{"id":45,"date":"2021-05-19T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sirenmag.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2021-11-09T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:46:36","slug":"politics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/politics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Rebellion &#8211; Fighting Back Against Climate Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction Rebellion have come a long way since their first rebellion in 2018. They have moved direct action to the centre of anti-establishment actions, and upgraded the window of what can be discussed in the media towards the real issues of climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Their iconic protest symbols, from the hourglass X to the red rebels and the pink boats blocking streets have certainly been eye-catching. Their strong commitment to non-violent protest, no drugs or alcohol and sacrificing themselves to arrest or police harassment has made it difficult for the forces of &#8220;law and order&#8221; to claim they are thugs or &#8220;dirty beardies&#8221;, when the protestors are eminently respectable grandparents or accredited scientists.<\/p>\n<p>But they have also revealed the limits of their form of protest: despite some huge mobilisations, there hasn&#8217;t been a breakthrough to achieving their aims and in the last protests in 2021 police attitudes had noticeable hardened and the were much rougher at removing people protesting than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction Rebellion have come a long way since their first rebellion in 2018. They have moved direct action to the centre of anti-establishment actions, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[14,61],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-climate","tag-rebellion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirenmag.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}