{"id":1545234,"date":"2022-07-08T19:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545234"},"modified":"2022-07-08T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:34:35","slug":"climate-activists-call-out-democrats-plan-to-shut-down-congressional-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-activists-call-out-democrats-plan-to-shut-down-congressional-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Activists Call out Democrats, Plan to \u2018Shut Down\u2019 Congressional Baseball Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-activists-call-out-democrats-plan-to-shut-down-congressional-baseball-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A coalition of climate activists is threatening to disrupt the upcoming Congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-baseball-2\">Baseball<\/a> Game in an effort to pressure Democrats in Congress to pass \u201csweeping climate legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, scheduled for July 28 at Nationals Park in Washington, continues a century-old bipartisan tradition in which Democrat and Republican members of Congress play a friendly baseball game to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p>The activists, however, vowed to not allow the game to happen, accusing the Democrat players of not doing enough to address <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-climate-change\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic leaders are failing us,\u201d declared the group under the banner of \u201cNow or Never,\u201d saying that the lawmakers \u201cmingle with billionaires and pretend everything is fine\u201d while \u201cice melts\u201d and \u201cseas rise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn July 28th, we will converge en masse on the Congressional Baseball Game,\u201d their <a href=\"https:\/\/nowornever.earth\/\">website<\/a> reads. \u201cIf our politicians have failed to deliver, we will shut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, if there is no \u201cstrong climate legislation\u201d by Aug. 5, the activists will \u201ctake direct action in protest of the DNC\u201d in four key states\u2014Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeptember 30th is our last stand. On this day, Congress is scheduled to leave Washington for an extended recess that lasts through the November election,\u201d they added. \u201cIf no major climate legislation has passed by this date, we will organize a highly disruptive, mass direct action that fundamentally disrupts business-as-usual in DC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes after protesters on July 4 blocked traffic on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway outside Washington for more than 90 minutes, resulting in a dozen arrests. Climate alarmist group Declare Emergency claimed responsibility and said they acted to demand President Joe Biden to declare a \u201cstate of climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one of the videos of the incident circulated on social media, a distraught man pleaded with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of climate activists is threatening to disrupt the upcoming Congressional Baseball Game in an effort to pressure Democrats in Congress to pass \u201csweeping climate legislation.\u201d The event, scheduled for July 28 at Nationals Park in Washington, continues a century-old bipartisan tradition in which Democrat and Republican members of Congress play a friendly baseball [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}