Very small protest

[nosrednayduj]

For Earth Day I decided that I should go to a protest. I figured Extinction Rebellion would be doing something so I checked their website, and they had a thing listed, conveniently at noon (the train gets me there at 11:45).

It turned out to be a very small event with only about 50 people. They had a sort of silly skit and some speakers about how private jets were killing the environment (they are), and then we had a little die-in, for only 5 minutes. The whole thing was over in about an hour, so I just took an earlier train home. There seemed to be more people taking videos and stuff than there were attendees. I guess they just didn't really advertise it very well.

I hadn't known whether it was going to be a real protest or not, so I brought a "Hands Off" sign that was relevant to the environment. When I got there, nobody else had signs, but I was randomly chatting with the other attendees and they encouraged me to get it out. A few more people with signs did show up later.

Their next thing is on Saturday, marching to the state house. Maybe there will be more people there.
https://xrboston.org/action/2025-earth-day/

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

I saw some people inbound on the Red line at about 5PM with an enormous rolled-up banner. At the time I didn't think about it being Earth Day, and wondered "Why on a Tuesday?"

[nosrednayduj]

I wonder where they had been. My thing ended at 1pm. Some people talked about a Tesla Takedown protest at the Tesla dealer later in the afternoon.