News: Hourglass Newspaper

BRITISH WILDLIFE ICONS: The bumblebee and the importance of wildflowers

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

A small insect that has been lucky enough to receive media attention over the last few years due to declining numbers is the humble bee. Over a third of the food we eat relies on pollinators to grow, and there are a number of factors impacting bee…

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Civil Disobedience is Inevitable

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

We are entering a time in UK public life where faith in long standing democratic processes and decision making are in terminal decline. The evidence of this is all around us. There have emerged single issues like Brexit and climate change, which the representative constituency system has failed to properly address. We…

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RIGHTS OF NATURE

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

I am a member of a group of lawyers that has written a Declaration of Rebellion to call for Justice for All. We call for climate justice for everyone on Earth, for intergenerational justice, and for ecological justice. I will write about the last point here. Historically,…

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FOLK TALES Gilgamesh and the Death of Eternal Life

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Once there was a story about a powerful king who mistreated his people, defied his gods, and sought to abuse the fundamental laws of nature. I know this sounds like most of the hero tales ever told, but this is the original. The very first of the man-child god-hero genre. Here is the birth…

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BUILD AT THE SPEED OF TRUST

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

It’s March 2019 and I’m helping Jake load four full drum kits out of his van and back into storage. He tells me, “Samba is definitely the way forward. I realised it after the last protest we both did playing those two djembes. It wasn’t enough. With…

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A proposal for an Ecoside Law

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Right now, large-scale and systematic destruction of the natural living world – ecocide – is legally permitted. Current regulations simply do not stop the scale of harm we are witnessing play out across the planet. Climate litigation (suing) may result in compensation, but it cannot prevent dangerous industrial activity from continuing. We…

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UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

It’s not the only reason I’m a climate activist, but being involved predominantly in human-based issues of injustice, environmental racism is a key reason to devote considerable time to this issue if nothing else. A few years ago, I heard Corey Booker speak about the pig farming industry in North Carolina. I…

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PERE UBU

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

BUSH HALL, LONDON Pere Ubu, the avant-garage band founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1975 from the ashes of proto-punk group Rocket From The Tombs, launched their latest album ‘The Long Goodbye’ at the beautiful art- deco ‘Bush Hall’ in West London on Friday 13th September. Led by vocalist…

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COLNE VALLEY IS OUR AMAZON RAINFOREST

October 01, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

HS2 is a transport project that will involve destroying acres of British countryside. It’s an express train service to climate and ecological disaster and it’s the first thing the Government should scrap if they are serious about the situation we are in. It will cost over £100 billion of taxpayer’s money, for…

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