Extinction Rebellion cultists target Black Friday shoppers with their latest antics
It’s December 1st, and the snowflakes are already here
Extinction Rebellion’s cultists took some time off from hunger strikes to target consumers around the world with Black Friday disruptions to the already frenzied shopping day.
One Denver mall was particularly hard hit.
During one of the busiest shopping days of the year, traffic outside the Cherry Creek Mall was brought to a standstill at the hands of protesters. A group known as “Extinction Rebellion Colorado” blocked traffic by positioning a sleigh in the middle of East 1st Avenue, and locking people to the sleigh by their necks.
Testwuide, owner of The Diamond Reserve, said her business was just one of more than 300 outside of the Cherry Creek Mall property that would be impacted by the protests. She believed the protesters were trying to send a message to the mall without realizing the traffic issues would also hinder local business sales.
“I get they are trying to make a point. But, they are not understanding that there are small businesses here that are here to make money to put food on their family’s table,” Testwuide told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas. “It is really affecting small businesses in their Christmas sales, and that is a huge part of people’s business success.”
In England, Black Friday shoppers were treated to a die-in at a popular designer outlet. However, it didn’t dampen the purchasing activity.
The sound of a drum echoed through Swindon’s busiest shopping area at lunchtime yesterday and had heads turning towards the entrance.
It came from around 15 members of Extinction Rebellion, who were dressed in funereal black to highlight the environmental threat facing the planet.
But onlookers were not too upset that their shopping spree had been interrupted.
In Canada, Extinction Rebellion treated Vancouver’s Black Friday shoppers to a funeral march.
Hundreds of activists took to the streets staging a funeral march and wake for “funeral service for the future of our planet, our ecosystems, and for the lives lost in the climate crisis.”
The procession, complete with a casket that carried the message “Change or die,” made its way through downtown and into Pacific Centre mall for a die in.
“This solemn demonstration of grief will disrupt the business as usual on consumerism’s 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,” Extinction Rebellion Vancouver spokesperson Grace Grignon said Thursday in a press release.
The French, however, were less amused and responded more robustly.
WATCH: French police forcibly remove “Block Friday” protesters at a sit-in against consumerism near an Amazon distribution center in Lyon #BlackFriday pic.twitter.com/irKO1i8Y0b
— Bloomberg TicToc (@TicToc) November 29, 2019
New Yorkers kept right on shopping.
The “Extinction Rebellion” held a Black Friday “die-in” and no one cared.
They just kept shopping ?pic.twitter.com/PGa5vRLshC
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) November 30, 2019
I must admit, I consider the the hilarity of the Extinction Rebellion antics an early Christmas present.
To Extinction Rebellion this is 60% of on Black Friday means. pic.twitter.com/VjiaswB47G
— martin baron (@martinofbaron) November 30, 2019
But I would like to note, the hypocrisy of the group is astonishing. First, there is all the camera equipment, cell phones, and electronic support that Extinction Rebellion relies on for its publicity…not to mention all the fossil-fuel based paint for their bodies and their signs. But additionally, the group has defaced a protected English landmark as part of this month’s set of stunts.
They should be ashamed of themselves and banged up!!
Morons!!#ExtintionRebellionFury as Extinction Rebellion ‘deface’ a famous White Horse monument https://t.co/h33utCw0PK
— Neil Wolstenholme ®️ (@NWolstenholme) October 8, 2019
It’s December 1st, and the snowflakes are already here.
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Grant their wishes and extinctionate their asses.
Planned parenthood. Dodo dynasties. In the meantime, they have a progressive carbon-based footprint and the Green Blight is metastasizing.
To the ER, it is Brownshirt Friday.
Message from hell: nazi brownshirts are embarrassed by the comparison.
“Embrace the suck!”
Why can’t they just climb trees naked like their parents did?
Those pasty girls and beta boys. They just may be extinct already and don’t know it.
In the North part of the US I have two suggestions for shoppers or store owners who encounter these twerps.
Ice cold water baloons and slushballs.
like the stocks of old, that sleigh. Put the miscreants in the stocks, and let the passerbys pelt them with rotten produce, mud, and um, the contents of chamberpots. how kind of them to volunteer themselves for that
No. More along the lines of drenching them in cold so they get pnemonia.
The Green Blight? How green do they think people are. Live conservative.
I shopped online and in three cities this weekend. And it was fun! 😉
The irony is that there is a black Friday sale on Extinction cultists, and soros has been buying.
Against stupidity even the gods are helpless.