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Global Newsletter #41: Please Proceed to Emergency Exits

July 16, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

(Sign up to the Newsletter here) Dear rebels, Exciting times on the frontlines of change. XRUK has announced the next UK Rebellion. For further details, or to see how you can get involved, check out the Rebellion FAQ.  Also this month, France sees the results of its first…

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UK Newsletter 16: The Rebellion Returns 1 September

July 03, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Get ready for the next Rebellion, everything you need to know and more.

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Statement on Extinction Rebellion’s relationship with the police

July 01, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

The tactics of disruption and nonviolent civil disobedience are at the heart of everything Extinction Rebellion does. We have been told that these tactics and our interpretation of them have excluded black people, other communities racialised as non-white, and other marginalised groups, and contributed to narratives that have put those communities at risk.

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No, Extinction Rebellion have not set up a political party

June 27, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

We’ve seen a couple of stories hit the news this week about people who are or were involved in Extinction Rebellion beginning new projects and using their connection to the movement as a way of launching those projects. Rather than adding to the many opinions within the movement about the value of these, we’re…

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Global Newsletter #40: The World Is Still Sick

June 18, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Dear rebels, Many countries may now be coming out of quarantine, but the world is still sick. Now, more than ever, it’s time to rebel. The last few weeks have seen a near-endless parade of atrocities which only serve to highlight the injustices and social inequalities of our time.

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UK Newsletter 15: This system is Toxic

June 05, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Racism and oppression are toxic symptoms of a poisoned system: they can have no place in the world we need to build.

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Extinction Rebellion UK statement on US protests and death of George Floyd

June 02, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion UK stands in solidarity with those in the US mourning and raging in memory of George Floyd and of so many others.

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Global Newsletter #39

May 20, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

Dear rebels, Since its inception, a central goal of our movement has been to bring thousands of people from all walks of life out onto the streets, day after day, to peacefully engage in civil disobedience. This is how we wooed the world’s media, shifted public consciousness, and brought complacent government representatives…

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XR Unchained 14

May 20, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

6 MAY | Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece Every night since May 6, rebels and other environmental activists have held a socially distanced vigil outside the Greek parliament building.  They are demanding the withdrawal of a new law, the so-called ‘Modernization of the Environmental Legislation’, which XR Hellas (Greece) says “effectively withdraws…

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