{"id":2015034,"date":"2023-08-29T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-rangers-arrest-climate-change-protesters-blockading-burning-man-festivalgoers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T02:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:33:29","slug":"nevada-rangers-arrest-climate-change-protesters-blockading-burning-man-festivalgoers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-rangers-arrest-climate-change-protesters-blockading-burning-man-festivalgoers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Rangers detain climate activists blocking Burning Man attendees."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnevada-rangers-arrest-climate-change-protesters-blockading-burning-man-festivalgoers%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=2015034&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--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Nevada\u2062 law enforcement was filmed arresting climate change protesters at gunpoint after driving\u200c a pickup truck through their trailer blockade on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According\u2062 to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomnews.tv\/2023\/08\/27\/burning-man-festival-road-shut-down-attendees-fight-protesters-and-rangers-ram-blockade-and-point-gun-at-activists-head-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom\u2063 News TV (FNTV)<\/a>, the media \u2062outlet that obtained film of the incident, on Aug. 27 in Black\u2064 Rock City, Nevada, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Rangers plunged through the roadblock that was blocking festivalgoers \u200cwho were on their \u200cway to attend the first day of\u2063 the annual Burning Man gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most liberal group of people you can find on the planet,\u201d said \u2062one of the people stuck in the traffic \u2062jam \u200bon the highway in the video \u200bcapturing the events \u200bthat led \u2063up to the incident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/climate-change-protesters-disrupt-indo-pacific-trade-event-commerce-secretarys-speech-5422099\">Climate Change Protesters Disrupt Indo-Pacific\u2063 Trade Event, Commerce Secretary&#8217;s Speech<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">7\/25\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/climate-change-protesters-disrupt-indo-pacific-trade-event-commerce-secretarys-speech-5422099\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/expelled-tennessee-state-lawmakers-take-part-in-climate-change-protest-in-dc-5231551\">Expelled Tennessee State Lawmakers Take Part in Climate Change Protest in DC<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">4\/30\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/expelled-tennessee-state-lawmakers-take-part-in-climate-change-protest-in-dc-5231551\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After waiting for hours in their vehicles, the video shows people getting out to try to remove the contraption the climate\u200b change protesters assembled.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-rangers-arrest-climate-change-protesters-blockading-burning-man-festivalgoers\/\" title=\"Nevada Rangers detain climate activists blocking Burning Man attendees.\">protesters held posters making statements<\/a> such as <strong>\u201cAbolish Capitalism,\u201d \u201cBurners of the World Unite,\u201d \u201cGeneral \u2062Strike for \u2062Climate,\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cBan Private Jets\u201d<\/strong> that were preventing those who\u2014given\u2063 the demographic of those who attend Burning Man\u2014more than \u2062likely shared their views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden is drilling more oil than any president since Bush,\u201d\u2063 said one of the climate protesters handcuffed to the trailer.\u2063 \u201cLiberalism is not the answer either. We need to change the system.\u200c We need burners to rise up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the \u2064woman\u200c spoke, two men argued. One\u200b of the men told \u2062a protester that\u2063 he had \u200bto go to work.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he managed to \u200ddrive his truck\u200c around the blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Others joined in\u200c attempting to drag the\u2063 trailer out of the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re probably here from Ireland\u2064 or [expletive] way far away,\u201d said one woman. \u201cGet out\u200b of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Hundreds\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-activists-in-landmark-climate-change-trial\/\" title=\"Montana judge supports youth activists in groundbreaking climate trial.\">climate protesters walk<\/a> from Times Square to New York Governor Kathy Hochul\u2019s \u200coffice to demand more action against climate change on Nov. 13, \u20622021, in New York City. \u200b(Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Rangers Arrive<\/h2>\n<p>Eventually, some other vehicles found a way around while others waited \u2064as the rangers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisband and get off the highway,\u201d a ranger said from his stopped pickup truck in front \u200cof the\u200b blockade. \u201cThis is \u200ba state route. Everybody will be arrested if not. Thirty seconds. Send your leader to my vehicle; let\u2019s talk. Get off\u2064 the\u200d [expletive] road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As \u2062someone approached the vehicle, another\u200c pickup\u200d truck rammed through the obstruction, \u200dwith another truck flanking the side, effectively surrounding the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officer<\/a> \u200dthen\u2063 got out of the pickup truck and told them to get down, holding the gun on them,\u2063 tackling one woman to the ground, and handcuffing\u200b her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not\u2062 fighting,\u201d screamed one of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The officers proceeded to \u200cremove the\u200c remnants of the blockade off the highway and handcuffed more participants, reportedly arresting them\u2063 for trespassing on tribal land.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily\u200b Mail identified the demonstrators to be from the organizations Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>General view of Black Rock City&#8217;s Burning\u2062 Man festival in Nevada Sept. 5, \u20641999. Founded in 1986 by a group of\u2064 artists, filmmakers, and photographers, the\u200b annual event encourages a \u200ccollaborative response from its audience and a \u2064collaboration between artists. \u200c (Scott Nelson\/AFP\u2064 via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Environmentalist Manifesto<\/h2>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityx.com\/posts\/c5fff182-ec83-4d60-973b-8ff084fbee15\/?explore=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manifesto<\/a> \u2062on the \u200dprotest published by the anti-capitalist Seven Circles Alliance, the organization calls Burning Man festivalgoers to unite in advocating for social justice and environmentalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdmit that infinite growth is incompatible with sustaining the Earth&#8217;s systems and that \u2062the green transition is a lie perpetuated by those\u2063 in power. Burning Man must advocate \u200bfor system change on both political and economic levels,\u201d the manifesto said.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s Burning Man\u200d is \u201cAnimalia\u201d to celebrate the animal kingdom. However, the Seven Circles\u2019 manifesto said, \u201cwe must acknowledge that the animal population has declined\u200d by almost 705 since\u2063 1970\u2062 due to human consumer-driven activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to FNTV, the\u200b organization said the\u200c purpose was to bring attention to capitalism\u2019s failure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greta-thunberg-nixes-tweet-warning-end-of-humanity-if-climate-not-fixed-by-2023\/\" title=\"Greta Thunberg nixes tweet warning end of humanity if climate not fixed by 2023\">fix climate change<\/a>, as well\u2064 as protest the commercia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevada law enforcement arrested climate change protesters at gunpoint, driving a truck through their trailer blockade. 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