Anti-capitalist climate activists blocked traffic to Burning Man on Sunday, causing a gridlock that stretched for miles on a major Nevada highway, before a park ranger plowed into the demonstration in his pickup truck and arrested the protesters.
Videos posted online showed around half a dozen Seven Circles protesters blocking a country lane using a trailer they locked themselves in, surrounded by banners reading “Burners of the world unite,” “Abolish capitalism” and “General Strike.” because of the weather”.
Chaotic footage then captures tribal police advancing through the demonstration, sending the trailer off the road and climbing the protesters.
The ranger can be heard telling the activists, “You’d better move” as they yell.
The group says the protest was designed to draw attention to “capitalism’s inability to address the ecological collapse of the climate” and was intended as a protest against the “popularization of Burning Man among wealthy people who do not live up to Burning Man’s stated values.” , which resulted in the commodification of the event.”
Seven Circles specifically states that the annual arts and counterculture festival’s goal of being carbon negative by 2030 is “insufficient to address the pressing crisis.”
Anti-capitalist climate activists blocked traffic to Burning Man on Sunday, angering many drivers.FNTV
One protester chained herself to the trailer and did not budge, even when drivers tried to drag the trailer.FNTV
He argues that Burning Man’s apolitical stance is “harmful to the values it asserts, especially as carbon emissions continue to rise despite government and corporate commitments to more than halve carbon emissions by 2030.”
“We don’t have a weather problem, the weather behaves exactly according to the laws of physics,” Thomas Diocano, co-founder of Rave Revolution, said in a statement. “We have an economic system problem, and that economic system is capitalism.
“History shows that capitalism cannot be reformed. It cannot be changed from “inside”. Are we really willing to sacrifice everything for an outdated and unequal economic system? The time has come to evolve.”
One protester argued in a video that “all the changes in society came from civil disobedience, all of them” when he confronted the angry Burners.FNTV
Soon several drivers trying to get through the blockade clashed with the protesters. FNTV
Among their demands are that Burning Man leaders “advocate for system change both politically and economically” and ban private jets, single-use plastics, the “needless burning of propane and unlimited use of generators.” ” at the nine-day event.
But the group’s protest angered many who were trying to make it to the annual event in Black Rock City.
A video posted online showed a man in a red, white and blue cowboy hat and sunglasses telling activists: “They are on public property. We have to get ahead.”
🚨#UPDATE This was before the Nevada Rangers arrived when climate activists chained themselves up while people stuck in traffic trying to attend the Burning Man festival tried to push and remove the blockade. pic.twitter.com/TS6GFqkaht
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023
He mentions that he has kids in his truck and tells the protesters, “Sorry, you have to move this fucking mess.”
The protesters, in turn, tell him to call the local authorities as a woman in a sun hat assures the man that he will “eventually lead” to Burning Man.
He then chains himself to the trailer while one of his fellow protesters confronts another man, saying, “This is a democracy, we have the right to protest.”
A tribal ranger rammed his truck into the protest.FNTV
The protest closed the main rural road for several kilometers on Sunday.FNTV
The woman in the sunhat tells the protester to “lock up and shut up,” as she did, but he continues to berate the angry driver, saying, “All the changes in society came from civil disobedience, all of them.” .
Just then, cars and trucks can be seen lining up behind the trailer trying to get through, as other drivers begin to argue with the protesters.
Eventually, the irate drivers attempt to move the trailer themselves, prompting the protester to yell, “Hey, you’re hurting me.”
A tribal ranger got out of his truck, gun drawn, and told protesters to get on the ground. FNTV
In a video of the protest, two forest rangers are seen handcuffing the ankles of a protester. FNTV
Several of the protesters were detained for their participation in the demonstration.FNTV
“Well, you chained yourself to that,” replies a man in a backwards baseball cap and tank top.
Another woman also tells him it was a “dumb move.”
Shortly after, a second video captures a tribal ranger ramming their truck during the protest.
🚨#RIP: Nevada Rangers rammed their truck into climate protesters while trying to shut down the Burning Man Music and Arts Festival.
📌#Black Rock | #Snowfall⁰ Climate activists tried to stop a major music and arts festival known as Burning Man, which is… pic.twitter.com/ormnHYIPgy
— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023
The woman in the sun hat begins to yell, “We’re not violent,” before a ranger steps out, gun drawn, motioning to the protesters to “get down, down now.”
He can be seen pushing one of the protesters to the ground with his gun pointed at her head. He later appears to straddle the woman while another ranger cuffs her ankles.
Meanwhile, the sunhat protester continues to yell: “We don’t have any weapons. We are environmental protesters.”
Just then another ranger can be seen appearing saying that they are “trespassing on tribal land”.
Several of the protesters were detained for their participation in the demonstration.
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