News: Arts & Culture

The Architecture of Truth: from local conversation to national security

May 27, 2026 by Extinction Rebellion

On 27th November 2025, ten of the UK’s leading experts presented a National Emergency Briefing to an invited audience of more than 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media in Westminster. Those who attended include broadcaster Chris Packham, actress Jennifer Saunders, business guru Deborah Meaden and musician Brian Eno,…

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LOVE ON THE STREETS 

April 03, 2026 by Extinction Rebellion

There was a moment at the Together march on Saturday 28th March that felt like a homecoming. Hundreds of thousands of people filling the streets of London: colour, music, bodies taking up space with intention and joy. For those of us who have spent years learning how to do this, who lived through the…

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Looking forward as spring reawakens

February 06, 2026 by Extinction Rebellion

As spring slowly approaches, we turn our attention to what’s been growing beneath the surface over winter. Rest and regeneration are not absence or delay. Nature doesn’t move by calendars or commands and gardens don’t bloom on January 1st.  If we are serious about preserving nature and the living world, we have to…

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Extinction Rebellion ‘Closes the Door’ on government inaction over 1.5°C target

December 20, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Apocalypse Theatrics’s Oil Slick performers glided in triangular formation through Whitehall this morning, pausing at key entrances to mark what they describe as a critical turning point: the passing of the 1.5°C Paris climate goal. To mark the first phase in XRUK’s Trilogy campaign the Oil Slicks paused at the entrances of three influential establishments, symbolically closing the door on institutions they say have failed to act on scientific warnings.

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Security, dogs and silent protest: Why Westfield shut down a festive message of hope that a better world is possible

December 09, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Red Rebels shut out of Westfield Shopping Centre as Extinction Rebellion UK activists display banners reading  “No Shopping on a Dead Planet” and “A Better World is Possible” Hi-Resolution Press Assets https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-newsXRUK Press Contact: Marianna (+44) 7827922444 media@extinctionrebellion.co.uk On Saturday 6th December, Extinction Rebellion’s Red…

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New film celebrates climate resistance

June 13, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

A new documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Liz Smith celebrates the resilience and courage of those taking action in the face of an alarming clampdown on protest rights in the UK at a time of accelerating ecological crisis.

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All we want for Christmas is… a climate number 1 hit!

December 17, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

Support Louise Harris to give the UK and the world its first ever Christmas no.1. Why? Because a climate no.1 is the best way to keep climate change in the public’s mind this Christmas.

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Empty shoes for lost lives: Extinction Rebellion’s heartbreak plea for a ceasefire in Gaza

November 11, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

XR parents place hundreds of childrens' shoes in Trafalgar Square and call for immediate ceasefire In a moving ceremony in London’s Trafalgar Square today (Saturday), parents from Extinction Rebellion placed hundreds of empty childrens’ shoes at the world-famous landmark to represent all the young Israeli and Palestinian lives lost in the ongoing fighting.

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The Power to Change with Margaret Atwood and Richard Black

April 04, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

While Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil are holding up tankers and stopping oil refineries, the government is sitting on the energy policy it promised after the Ukraine invasion. With rising poverty, rising fuel prices, and rising fears about the future, the question of how quickly and effectively we can transition to clean energy has become urgent.

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