Thread by @FordFischer

VIDEO THREAD: This afternoon, climate activists including scientist Rose Abramoff @ultracricket chained themselves to the White House fence to demand President Biden declare a "climate emergency" over shifting global temperatures.

One connected herself to White House fence with a bike lock around her neck.

"This is me saying, 1.5 C [limit for global temp rising]," she told me.

"We need to listen to scientists. We need to listen to indigenous people."

Says she chose bike lock out of opposition to cars.

Two connected themselves inside a PVC tube on the other side of the White House fence.

"We're here to defend the Earth," one told me. "Biden needs to step up his game and call a climate emergency."

The other tells me of value of listening to Earth, rather than to people.

"Let's go!"

Secret Service physically pushed (unchained) activists back out of the street around the White House.

"You're resisting! This area is closed!"

"You wanna get arrested, let's go!"

They then began clearing all of Lafayette Park, pushing the group back to H St.

"Don't have to make this harder than it is," a Secret Service agent said.

One participant did an extremely slow walk backwards as Lafayette Park was closed.

I've cut this down for time, but it took about ten minutes for him to walk out of the park with cops trailing him.

As the chained activists were cut out and arrested, a Secret Service agent explained to a family with a kid:

"Folks have chained themselves to the White House fence, so they're getting arrested. You can't do that. Take this as lesson learned, buddy!"

"Don't follow their lead!"

Before the action began, I spoke to one of the organizers of the action, who had also been involved in the Monday shut down of a highway (thehill.com/policy/equilib…)

"People need to pay attention to what's going on," he says, and this method makes them do that.

#ClimateEmergency

Here is the full @N2Sreports video of today's action demanding a #ClimateEmergency where activists including scientist Rose Abramoff @ultracricket chained themselves to the White House.

As always, all video available to license!

PHOTOS of the contraptions the activists holding a "Scientist Rebellion" @ScientistRebel1 got themselves into in front of the White House.

photos also available to license.

PHOTOS: Even as the police arrested the @DecEmergency / @ScientistRebel1 / @xr_dc_ activists in front of the White House, their group continued to speak out on H Street.

Watch the full video:

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