2022: The year the movement of movements aligns to end fossil fuels

March 04, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

This Spring, Extinction Rebellion UK is focusing all its activities on an immediate demand: to end the fossil fuel economy. In light of recent war, past war, the recent IPCC reports, advice from myriad NGOs, agencies, experts and international bodies calling for the end to fossil fuels, this is the obvious first step to tackling the climate and ecological crisis that the entire environmental space is coalescing around.

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Newsletter March 2022

March 04, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

Last week saw the publication of the latest IPCC report focusing on the probable real-world impact of the climate crisis: extreme weather, floods, droughts and fires. Even if the world keeps heating below 1.5C, and after the disappointment of COP26 this looks increasingly unlikely, by the end of the century, the effects will be catastrophic…

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XR UK Statement on the latest IPCC Report

February 28, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

The IPCC's devastating report, published today, is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate warnings from scientists and activists. We know what is happening, we know what needs to be done and we know those in power are failing us.

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Newsletter February 2022

February 07, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

Last month's Newsletter featured a review of the year but this month we are unashamedly looking forward. The new XR Strategy has been unveiled across the movement’s platforms and toured the UK with Zoom calls and well attended face-to-face meetings. The response has been amazing: rebels fired up to build the movement and get ready for the first rebellion of the year beginning on 9th April.

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XR UK Strategy 2022

January 23, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

Today we launch XRUK's 2022 strategy, which will reignite our original Theory of Change - mass mobilising towards 3.5% of the population.

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2022 XR Strategy Tour – find your local stop!

January 18, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

This is our chance to pull together and be part of something greater than ourselves in 2022.

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First XR jury trial of 2022 begins for Shadwell 3

January 11, 2022 by Zoe Blackler

The trial is underway for three XR members who stopped a DLR train at Shadwell station in 2019. Phil Kingston, 85, Reverend Sue Parfitt, 79 and Father Martin Newell, 54 will argue the action was a proportionate response to the escalating climate crisis and a lawful protest under the Human Rights Act.

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Newsletter January 2022

January 06, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

2021: A Year in Protest As the year progressed, the pandemic and subsequent lockdown continued to make climate actions challenging, if not impossible. Gatherings of large groups became difficult or often illegal. Once-thriving local and regional meetings had become restricted largely to Zoom. But that did not stop people from XR and associated groups across…

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XR UK statement on alliances and inter-movement relationships

December 14, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

XR UK is a movement of equality, liberation and emancipation. While XR UK will form alliances with a broad range of groups, many of whom will have different and distinct objectives, XR UK will not form alliances with any group which promotes an oppressive or discriminatory agenda or whose aims and objectives are otherwise incompatible with XR UK's principles and values.

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Newsletter December 2021

December 06, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

XR UK Newsletter December 2021 Welcome to the last UK Newsletter of 2021. Since we reformed the Newsletter team earlier this year we’ve managed to produce regular monthly issues covering stories and news from across the XR UK movement. We were particularly pleased to have put out eight special issues covering the Impossible Rebellion during…

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