Disruption of Tube Services beginning 17 October: Information for London Underground Staff

October 15, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

From October 7th-21st, XR are hosting a peaceful rebellion against the UK government for its inaction on climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. If the Government fails to meet its members to discuss their Three Demands, XR and its various affiliated groups will build pressure through disruption. On October 17th, several XR affinity groups (autonomous civil disobedience groups) are planning to nonviolently disrupt Tube services to highlight the Climate and Ecological Emergency. We sincerely apologise to all those who may be affected as a consequence of this disruption. In any other circumstances these groups would never dream of disrupting the Tube but this is an emergency.

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You Can’t Eat Money – Protest at BlackRock’s UK HQ, City of London

October 14, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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This Monday – The International Rebellion continues in more than 60 cities around the world

October 04, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Euston, we have a problem. Chris Packham asks, ‘What planet is HS2 on?’

September 28, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Northern Rebellion: a rebel write-up

September 08, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Today 4 September, 10am: Extinction Rebellion Joins Peace Groups to Disrupt World’s Largest Arms Fair

September 04, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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…

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Today 9.30am, London: Filmmaker Jack Harries among nine Extinction Rebellion members on trial for criminal damage during oil protest

July 24, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Email: 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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Today, 15 July: Extinction Rebellion is causing disruption across 5 UK cities calling on Government to ACT NOW!

July 15, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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An XR France account of Pont de Sully

July 07, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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…

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WITNESS BOX STATEMENT – Angie Zelter, Hendon Magistrates Court 25th June 2019

June 25, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Words – 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…

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