Extinction Rebellion aims to turn up political heat with hunger strikes

Extinction Rebellion activists pressing for more rapid action on climate change threats on Wednesday entered a third day of a week-long hunger strikes in 27 countries. The strikes, which began Monday, have been in part spearheaded by 20-year-old Giovanni Tamacas, a University of San Diego student, who carried out a solo hunger strike last month in front of the White House. “We are hunger striking because we have no choice,” he said in a statement, arguing governments and corporations “have criminally and catastrophically failed to tackle the climate and ecological emergency”.