Phone: 07495 297625 Email: media.xrbristol@protonmail.com Extinction Rebellion (XR) calls on the world’s largest asset management company BlackRock to: Wake up and smell your role in funding the burning of the Amazon and wildfires in the Arctic. Stop investing immediately in the worst companies driving global deforestation. Divest from fossil fuel stocks over the next five years and…
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As the eve of the International Rebellion approaches, people in more than 60 cities around the world release their plans for peacefully shutting down their cities, and disrupting business as usual, to demand governments tell the truth on the Climate and Ecological Emergency – and act.
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Email: press@risingup.org.uk Phone: +44(0)7969 083 371 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | Crowd Funder Saturday 28 September, gathering from 1pm – One Eversholt Street, EustonChris Packham, Extinction Rebellion and members of RethinkHS2.org, including The Woodland Trust, RSPB and Greenpeace create a forest outside HS2’s HQ Chris has legally…
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We’ve come to the end of our four-day Northern Rebellion. What an extraordinary experience. My first time at anything like this. These are some of my personal recollections from those four days. Now, almost immediately we are into the preparation for International Rebellion London. We occupied one of Manchester’s most polluted roads and shopping streets…
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Email: press@risingup.org.ukPhone: Office +44(0)7780 602722; +44(0)7479 234522Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets Extinction Rebellion joins with peace groups to disrupt and shut down the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair this weekAn Extinction Rebellion boat will be used to stop equipment entering the ExCeL…
Read full postEmail: press@risingup.org.ukPhone: +44(0)7918165046 Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |Media AssetsWhat emergency? | Extinction Rebellion in Numbers Filmmaker and influencer Jack Harries among nine members of Extinction Rebellion on trial today and Thursday (24th and 25th July, Hendon Magistrates Court).“The Petroleum 9” are charged with criminal damage and aggravated trespass for a peaceful protest against the International…
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Email: press@risingup.org.uk Bristol, South West England: +44(0)7432 677696, +44(0)7722062502, +44(0)7527669942 Cardiff, Wales: +44(0)7580189876, +44 (0)7591800795 Glasgow, Scotland: +44(0)7904591052 Leeds, North England: +44(0)7964072879, +44(0)7376457438 London, Central and South England: +44(0)7561098449, +44(0)7944894190 Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | Crowd Funder What emergency? | Extinction…
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English (translation) I want to tell you what was forged in me that day. (I realise that it will look grandiloquent and over the top, ten times too long to read, but it’s quite grandiose, I have no other way to say it!) Since I joined XR I have awaited, without really believing it…
Read full postWords – 4,451 words. Time to read out – 30 minutes max Personal Background I am now 68 years of age but when I was 21, in my final year at university, I read the January edition of ‘The Ecologist’ magazine, called ‘Blueprint for Survival’. This had an enormous impact on me as it…
Read full postEmail: press@risingup.org.uk Phone: +44(0)7811183633, +44(0)7944894190, +44(0)7780602722, +44(07949332365, +44(0)7479234522 Website: https://rebellion.earth/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionRebellion/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR #ExtinctionRebellion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/extinctionrebellion/ Content drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1m1v7Cs8JFkDM1gHp45OF-NwwhLzPZJO8 What emergency? https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/ Extinction Rebellion in Numbers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11E9MUhXWyxweCDKwJqBRZEDLGam268iwUqVAAUG8dus/ We thought we’d give your sub-editors a leg up and suggest a headline… On a serious…
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