This is a critical year for our climate and our community, and we're turning up the heat (electrically!). This fall, XRDC will be taking direct, disruptive, and beautiful action to call out our leaders right here in DC for their failure to protect us from fossil fuel infrastructure that's killing our future. Now is the time to get involved!

To do this, we will need courage. We will need love and sacrifice. We will need skills and community. Join us for an in-person, hands-on training to learn skills to carry out effective actions. While open to all, this training will include some advanced skills, so it's suggested that participants have some basic NVDA knowledge/experience. In addition, part of this training will be outside, so dress accordingly.

We'll also have plenty of other events you can plug into in the coming months, so sign up for our newsletter and check out xrdc.org/events to stay up to speed.

Why methane?
Our lives are desperately dependent on fossil fuels. That’s how the system works. That’s how the system was built. And that’s how the system fails us.

Everyone knows about the dangers of CO2. But there is another greenhouse gas that is 80x more powerful at warming the planet than CO2, releases noxious air pollution into our homes, and can even explode. We're talking about methane gas. But there is good news - methane is much more short-lived than CO2 in the atmosphere, making it a crucial and effective target in the climate fight. Here in DC, Extinction Rebellion is in the midst of a massive, ongoing campaign to stop Project Pipes, a $4.5 billion investment in decades more of toxic methane infrastructure.

Why NVDA?
Traditional methods of demanding change such as voting and lobbying have not worked. Entrenched fossil fuel interests, like Project Pipes' parent company Washington Gas, will happily let the world burn for their profit. This is why we turn to Non-Violent Direct Action: We must use our collective power to stop business as usual and create a better future for all!