Extinction Rebellion is today (4 December) occupying the City of London headquarters of international law firm A&O Shearman that is playing a leading role in oiling the legal wheels of the deadly fossil fuel machine setting our planet on fire.
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Extinction Rebellion activists The Worley Three have been given 320 hours of community service today for causing £6,000 in “damages” for their peaceful protest at the offices of multinational corporation Worley. The sentencing comes two days after 15 university students in Uganda were remanded to a maximum security prison for peacefully protesting the pipeline outside the Ugandan Parliament. Meanwhile the beleaguered project has run into fresh funding challenges.
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A protestor was arrested as Extinction Rebellion scaled and occupied insurance buildings and unleashed the Four Insurers of the Apocalypse to warn of looming social collapse and unrest in a third day of actions targeting insurers in the City of London.
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Six protestors arrested as insurer’s office is chalk-sprayed, the famous Gherkin building is occupied and insurance CEOs are branded climate criminals by a video van tour of the City of London as day two of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival week hits the streets.
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A pink boat sailed through the City of London as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists occupied world-famous buildings, staged climate crime scenes and mass die-ins and marched to demand insurers stop insuring climate breakdown. The actions kicked off a week of mass protests in the capital and across the UK calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuel criminals who are heating up the planet and flooding our homes.
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Extinction Rebellion announces its Insure Our Survival campaign by issuing an ultimatum letter to insurance industry bosses as the movement prepares a week of protests and actions in London and across the UK. Senior executives have been warned: “Make a pledge to get out of new oil, coal and gas – or face actions and protests.”
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Today, nine Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to protest the company’s continued extraction of fossil fuels at the site in blatant contravention of a Supreme Court ruling made earlier this year.
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People who took action in defence of life, known as the “Worley Three,” have been found guilty of causing £6,000 in “damages” for their peaceful protest at the offices of multinational corporation Worley. Sentencing will take place on 14th November.
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A five-day Crown Court trial begins next week against three XR activists for a principled protest that allegedly caused £6,020 in ‘damages’. The protest involved the use of washable, fake oil and chalk spray on the offices of petro-engineering multinational firm Worley in Brentford, Middlesex. The protesters demanded the company sever ties with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project that has already been responsible for gross human rights abuses and threatens to cause irreversible climate change if completed. The trial comes after 47 student protesters were pre-emptively arrested in Uganda before they were able to deliver a petition against the pipeline to parliament - just the latest incident in an ongoing, brutal and escalating crackdown against ordinary people resisting the devastating project.
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Extinction Rebellion supporters from groups across the United Kingdom will start gathering in Windsor Home Park on the morning of Friday 30 August for three days of creative, peaceful action to propose democratic renewal as the answer to the climate and nature emergencies.
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