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April 22, 2019

2,000+ French Climate Campaigners Hold Civil Disobedience Actions
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Elsewhere, more than 2,000 climate activists held a nonviolent blockade
of France's environment ministry just outside of Paris on Friday,
calling out government complicity with fossil fuel companies and the
banks that fund them. Climate activists are calling it one of the
largest acts of civil disobedience in French history. The blockade also
successfully targeted French oil giant Total; Société Générale, an
investment bank that funds dirty energy projects; and a state-run
electric utility that relies heavily on nuclear power.


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