A Summer of Action June 19, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion This summer, XR groups around the country are preparing for defiant action. Find a protest, block time in your calendar, and join in a season of unity, community, and rebellion. Read full post
News UK window-breakers trial postponed June 13, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion The climate protectors accused of breaking the windows at the offices of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, publishers of tabloid The Sun, had their trial postponed on the day it was due to begin. Southwark Crown Court said they had overbooked and there was not enough court space to hear the trial. Consequently the case was postponed until 16 November 2026 - some four and a half years after the action. Read full post
Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport June 11, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights. Read full post
MSPs join activists to call out BP’s corruption of Holyrood May 30, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, seems to be saying the right things. Just earlier this month he condemned “anti-science climate denial” as he said the climate crisis is “one of the greatest global issues of our time”. But is this nothing more than empty words? [1] In one of the largest reviews of… Read full post
Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year May 26, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion Extinction Rebellion's Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) - Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference - with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects. Read full post
Climate protectors accused of breaking News UK windows to go on trial May 06, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion Five people go on trial on Monday 12 May at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the headquarters of News UK (formerly News International) in July 2022. Two carefully broke windows while the other three flyposted newspaper articles. The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism. We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to more ambitious action. Read full post
We are scientists, and we are taking action! May 01, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion Today sees the free-to-view release of Plan Z: From Lab Coats to Handcuffs, a short but urgent film in which scientists share what compelled them to direct action —and why they are willing to risk their liberty to fight for change. Watch now on YouTube. Read full post
Drop kick Howden out of Rugby! March 27, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion The pushback against climate-wrecking insurance companies sports-washing their reputations by sponsoring rugby, kicked off when Extinction Rebellion Cymru staged a comedy rugby match before the Wales vs. England Six Nations rugby match at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Wearing snorkels and flippers to signify the danger of increased flooding, activists staged a mock rugby match accompanied by comedy commentary and samba drummers outside the stadium. The creative action marks the start of a series of interventions aiming to drop kick Howden out of rugby. Read full post
Our energy bills are torching the planet March 04, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion Activists from Extinction Rebellion North and Axe Drax staged a banner-burning action on the day that tree-burning power station Drax announced earnings of over one billion pounds in 2024. The action called for an end to public money to burning trees for electricity. The action came the day after the Climate… Read full post
