About 40 young activists demonstrated near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home on Sunday, promising to spend the night if she did not meet their demands on climate change and Israel.
Activists with the Sunrise Movement, which has organized climate protests across the country, said they arrived in Harris’ quiet Brentwood neighborhood with two demands of the vice president: convince President Biden to declare a climate emergency and end US military aid to Israel.
In case things didn’t go well on Sunday afternoon, the group came prepared with tents and sleeping bags.
“We’re three houses away from her house and we’re not leaving,” said Adah Crandall, an 18-year-old organizer.
In February, 21 climate change protesters were arrested outside Biden’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Crandall called Sunday’s protest a “continuation of this campaign.”
As of Sunday afternoon, organizers had not seen Harris, they said, although they believed she was in Los Angeles.
Harris was scheduled to fly to Las Vegas Monday morning to attend two events. Secret Service agents will seek to clear the road.
Activists said they believed Harris was a climate champion before entering the White House, advocating for the Green New Deal when she was a presidential candidate and pushing climate resolutions as a senator.
Wei Zhou, 17, wants to see Harris push the president to declare a climate emergency, allowing the government to mobilize with rapid action.
“We’ve seen her get ahead of Biden on some things,” Zhou said. “We are asking her to be now the kind of leader she was in 2019.”
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