Disney Heiress Arrested at Climate Protest Against Private Jets at Hamptons Airport
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By SIMON KENT17 Jul 2023
Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of Roy
O. Disney and
self-described Patriotic Millionaire, was arrested Friday as she joined a
climate protest at an airport in the Hamptons.
Fox
News reports the
left-wing heiress added her voice alongside members of New York Communities for
Change, Planet Over Profit, and Sunrise Movement NYC, on the East End of
Long Island.
The
protesters claimed their aim was to disrupt the “exclusive vacations of wealthy
fossil fuel investors and polluters driving the climate crisis.” Disney made
her own statement, saying:
As
a person who has been privileged enough to use private jets, I know it’s
hard to give up a luxury that is special. But I also know that the time has
passed for spewing greenhouse gasses like this merely for our personal comfort.
The
events of the past week alone, with Earth’s average temperature hitting an all
time high, drought and fatal heat waves across the country, floods in Vermont
and New York, and ocean temperatures around Florida well over 90 degrees,
should remove all doubt once and for all. The wealthiest 1% uses as much
greenhouse gas as the entire bottom 50%. It is time for real change and this is
the most obvious place to start.
According
to photos and videos of the incident, Disney and the other protesters formed a
blockade at the main entrance of East Hampton Airport which serves private and
charter flights, not commercial, Fox News reported.
It
is situated in the Hamptons, a ritzy community in eastern Long Island that is
home to a number of celebrities and affluent residents.
“These
same rich people farting into the Hamptons on private jets are often the ones
who make their money in industries that hugely accelerate the climate crisis,”
Teddy Ogborn, an organizer of Planet Over Profit who was also arrested at the
protest, reportedly said.
“As
long as the 1% continues to needlessly poison our air and heat our earth, we
will continue to escalate our actions against them.”
Abigail
Disney is no stranger top public protests, including against The Walt Disney
Company, for several years.
She
co-directed “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” with Kathleen Hughes.
The film criticizes the way Disney treats their theme park Cast Members. It was
executive produced by Abigal’s brother Tim Disney and produced by their sister
Susan Disney Lord, as Breitbart News reported.
“What
I bring to this [film] is a memory of who my grandfather was in the 1960s and
early 70s, what kind of CEO he was, how he greeted people, how he understood
them as partners and not cogs in a machine,” Disney said about the documentary
at the time.
Abigail
Disney speaks during “Fire Drill Friday” climate change protest on November 15,
2019 in Washington, DC. ( John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Disney
also recently urged the company to embrace more leftist social positions, like
its opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law.
“We
need corporations to step up on principle, regardless of what the resulting
backlash might look like,” she wrote in an op-ed for The
Washington Post.
“The
only option for corporate leaders is to stand tall for authenticity,
generosity, joy, and decency. These things are kryptonite for the right-wing
agenda. Fortunately, they are also the heart and soul of the Disney brand.”
Connecting
the Dots:
Abigail E. Disney is
Roy E. Disney’s daughter and a director at the White House
Project.
Gara LaMarche was
a director at the White House Project, an associate director for
the Human Rights Watch and a VP & director of U.S. programs for
the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Human Rights Watch.
George Soros is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a
benefactor for the Human Rights Watch and the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder
for the Human Rights Watch and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Beth A. Brooke is
a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank) and a director at
the White House Project.
Daisy Khan was
a director at the White House Project, is an executive director for
the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a developer
for Park51.
Park51
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park51
Controversy
Opponents
of the Park51 project
argued that it is "a mosque", claiming that establishing a mosque a
few blocks away from Ground Zero would be offensive because the hijackers in
the September 11, 2001 attacks were Islamic terrorists.
Resources:
Past research
Marvel
Comics Introduces Muslim Superhero (Past Research on
Abigail Disney)
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
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