UPDATE: GPs released from police custody on eve of UK’s hottest day

July 18, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

At around 10pm last night six healthcare professionals were released under investigation from Fresh Wharf Custody Base in Barking where they had been held since Sunday morning. The group from Doctors for XR included two GPs, a child and adolescent mental health specialist, a gynecologist, a consultant psychiatrist and a dementia nurse. They were held in police custody after carefully cracking eight panes of glass at financial services giant and investment bank JP Morgan’s offices in Canary Wharf at 10 am on Sunday July 17th.

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Doctors for XR crack glass at JP Morgan as UK declares heatwave ‘national emergency’

July 17, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

This morning at 10 am six members of Doctors for XR carefully cracked eight panes of glass at financial services giant and investment bank JP Morgan’s offices in Canary Wharf. The group included two GPs, a child and adolescent mental health specialist, a gynecologist, a consultant psychiatrist and a dementia nurse. The medics placed stickers on the windows reading ‘in case of medical climate emergency break glass’ before carefully cracking the panes of glass near the entrance to the building.

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DON’T GET DISTRACTED – Statement on the resignation of Boris Johnson

July 07, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

With Westminster paralysed by scandal after scandal and the Prime Minister set to leave 10 Downing Street, it’s time to recognise that the decision making bodies we have trusted are functioning for the benefit of corporates and capital rather than the British public, and are not capable of tackling the major crises we face. Why do we need radical change that puts ordinary people at the heart of decision making? The answer is right here before us. 

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‘Something has to be done’ – Stephen Fry calls on public to support Extinction Rebellion

June 29, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

In a video released today, national treasure, actor and comedian Stephen Fry called on the British public to support Extinction Rebellion. Speaking to camera Fry, said: “Reasonable people, I think, understand that something has to be done about fossil fuels, most of all about our insatiable appetite for them.”

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Rainbow Rebellion takes to the streets of
Soho, London, to demand action on
climate change 🌈 🌏

June 18, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

Starting at 2.00pm, Saturday 18th June, Rainbow Rebellion took to the streets of Soho to demand action on climate change. The group occupied Old Compton Street with a giant rainbow dildo, followed by an afternoon of speeches, music, art, games, and cake, which is ongoing with plans into the evening.

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Health Professionals glue on outside Downing Street calling for an end to fossil fuels

June 11, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

At 2.30pm today, 60 health professionals sat down in front of the gates outside Downing Street. Some members performed an unsuccessful ‘resuscitation’ of a 4 foot Earth on a stretcher. Following this 10 health professionals remained in front of the gates and ‘glued on’, whilst their colleagues held banners saying ‘For Health’s Sake Stop Financing Fossil Fuels’ and ‘Fossil Fuels are a Dead End’.

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BREAKING: Climate groups bring Shell’s first UK AGM to a standstill

May 24, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

At 10.00am on Tuesday May 24th, over 80 people disrupted Shell's first UK AGM, held at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, with the aim of preventing the meeting from going ahead.

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Charity Status of Climate Denialism Group a Joke say Extinction Rebellion and Green Coalition

May 23, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

This morning at 10am, a group of writers, scientists, activists and a baroness will gather in Tufton Street on the doorstep of the notorious climate-denial group The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). They will then proceed to the Charity Commission with an official complaint demanding that the group be stripped of its charity status and then filed the complaint with the Charity Commission.

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‘JUSTICE FOR AFRICA’ – XR disrupts Schlumberger-sponsored Gala Dinner at Gordon Ramsay Restaurant

May 18, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

At 5pm this evening, Extinction Rebellion took action to prevent the Africa Energies Summit gala dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Heddon Street Kitchen in central London from going ahead. The gala dinner is sponsored by Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfields services provider.

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Extinction Rebellion disrupt Africa Oil Conference in Mayfair

May 17, 2022 by Extinction Rebellion

On Tuesday May 17 at around 8am, a coalition of groups including Extinction Rebellion Africa, Sustaining the Wild Coast, StopEACOP, Africans Rising, The Green Connection, Oceans Not Oil, Jubilee for Climate, 350.org and Greenpeace disrupted the Africa Energies Summit, a high-level conference attended by oil executives and African heads of state, who will also meet for "top-level networking".

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