{"id":244098,"date":"2022-11-28T05:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/how-activists-using-art-to-highlight-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T05:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:18:45","slug":"how-activists-are-using-art-to-highlight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/how-activists-are-using-art-to-highlight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How activists are using art to highlight climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>South Africans usually take to the streets, in their thousands, to protest for better housing, human rights, or against corrupt presidents.<\/p>\n<p>But Extinction Rebellion is doing something a little different.<\/p>\n<p>They have poured fake blood and oil over themselves, dressed up as horses, and held theatrical meetings. Using theatre and art, this is how Extinction Rebellion Cape Town is protesting against climate change.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt class=\"leave\" height=\"1\" id=\"gu_counter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/how-activists-are-using-art-to-highlight-climate-change.gif\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article_copyright\">\n<p>\u00a9 2022 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back to the original article.<\/p>\n<p>We put an invisible pixel in the article so that we can count traffic to republishers. All analytics tools are solely on our servers. We do not give our logs to any third party. Logs are deleted after two weeks. We do not use any IP address identifying information except to count regional traffic. We are solely interested in counting hits, <b>not tracking<\/b> users. If you republish, please do not delete the invisible pixel.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/how-activists-are-using-art-to-highlight-climate-change.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/\">Source: GroundUp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] South Africans usually take to the streets, in their thousands, to protest for better housing, human rights, or against corrupt presidents. But Extinction Rebellion is doing something a little different. They have poured fake blood and oil over themselves, dressed up as horses, and held theatrical meetings. 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