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 environmental regulations so…
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(Sign up for the newsletter here) Dear rebels, Six weeks into this pandemic and many of us are feeling the strain. This crisis lays bare the vast vulnerability and grave injustices in our system. Some of us may also feel unsettled in our path as rebels. There is a sense of frustration at a…
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On December 22nd, 1997, in a remote village in southernmost Mexico, members of two right-wing paramilitary groups burst into a church prayer meeting and shot dead 45 indigenous people, mostly women and children. The Acteal massacre happened because the villagers were activists for Las Abejas (The Bees), a Christian pacifist group focused on land rights…
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This week Extinction Rebellion celebrates the anniversary of the April Rebellion that took place across 11 days starting on 15th April 2019. A Rebellion which saw XR grow from a colourful group of fringe activists who occupied 5 bridges into a household name and player on the world stage.
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Striving for a fairer society that puts people and planet before profit is both necessary and a moral duty. By Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell.
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London's temporary Garden Bridge was horticulture as protest, the gentlest of non-violent civil disobedience. By Mak Gilchrist, Founder of The Edible Bus Stop.
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I am very proud to have won the Olympics in London 2012. But it stands equal to my part in the April Rebellion in 2019
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A year on from the April Rebellion, are we any closer to XR's Third Demand for a Citizen's Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice?
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The battle for Parliament Square was not won and lost overnight. As dedicated rebels were eventually cleared from roadblocks and traffic would be opened up again, a rescue party in the form of bikes, samba bands or extinction marches would swoop in and shut it down again shortly after in a dramatic turn of events.
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As the UK goes into its fourth week of lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Talia Woodin reflects on what it means for XR Youth's work as activists
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