Disney Heiress ARRESTED In New York

Abigail Disney, the heiress of Disney, was arrested in New York on Friday.

Disney was arrested after she blocked a small airport for private jets.

The Disney heiress was protesting with several other climate activists and stated “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,”

She continued  “But I also know that the time has passed for spewing greenhouse gasses like this merely for our personal comfort.”

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— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 14, 2023

Here’s what Fox News reported:

Abigail Disney, the heiress of the Disney fortune, was arrested in New York on Friday after she and several climate activists blocked a small airport servicing private jet departures and arrivals.

Disney was joined by members of New York Communities for Change, Planet Over Profit and Sunrise Movement NYC in the action held to protest and disrupt the “exclusive vacations of wealthy fossil fuel investors and polluters driving the climate crisis,” a press release stated. The activists blockaded the regional East Hampton Airport in Wainscott, New York.

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“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,” Disney said in a statement Friday. “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,” she added. “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.”

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— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) July 15, 2023

The New York Post got the scoop too:

The heiress to the Disney fortune was arrested on Long Island on Friday while protesting the use of small private jets with other climate activists at a Hamptons airport.

Abigail Disney, the great-niece of Walt Disney, joined activists from the New York Communities for Change, Planet Over Profit and Sunrise Movement NYC at the East Hampton Airport in Wainscott to protest “exclusive vacations of wealthy fossil fuel investors and polluters driving the climate crisis,” Fox News reported.

“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,” Disney said in a statement Friday. “But I also know that the time has passed for spewing greenhouse gasses like this merely for our personal comfort.”

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— deborah green (@NewaiGreen) July 14, 2023