Extinction Rebellion NYC's Earth Day Uprising begins at noon Wednesday in Lower Manhattan, a three-hour action scheduled through 3 p.m., the group's fifth consecutive Earth Day civil-disobedience march in the city. The 2025 action defaced the Wall Street Charging Bull; the 2022 action blockaded the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today printing plant; the 2026 call sheet reads simply "March; Rally; Spread Joy." [1] In Washington, the Extinction Rebellion DC chapter holds an in-person introduction at Busboys and Poets on K Street Northwest at 6:30 p.m., timed to DC Climate Week; the event is a recruitment meeting rather than a march. [2]

The paper's Tuesday Earth Day-eve piece named the EARTHDAY.ORG theme — "Our Power, Our Planet" — as explicit framing against the administration's 400-plus environmental actions. Wednesday the theme meets the streets. EARTHDAY.ORG's map listed more than 10,000 registered events worldwide as of Tuesday evening, ranging from tree plantings to peaceful demonstrations to voter-registration drives. [3] The organization expects more than a billion global participants by day's end, the pattern EARTHDAY.ORG CEO Kathleen Rogers's team has cited since the January 14 theme announcement. [3]

Global Citizen NOW, the advocacy group's New York policy summit, is not Wednesday's event; it lands May 14 at Spring Studios. [4] The Wednesday itself is Uprising in Lower Manhattan, recruit-meeting in Washington, 10,000 local actions everywhere else, and — as the paper's major this morning read — the first April 22 in 56 years that the holiday has landed inside an active war clock. The streets fill anyway. The theme's pun — "Our Power, Our Planet," simultaneously clean energy and petro-state siege power — is what they'll march under.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York