BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion have broken into ExxonMobil’s Fawley Oil terminal in Hampshire this morning, just three days before the COP26 Climate Summit, to demand that the Government listens to the people and stops all new fossil fuel investments.
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Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447791 737093 / +447472 019248Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#PrivateFlightsCostTheEarth # StopPrivateFlightsNow #ExtinctionRebellion Farnborough airport has been barricaded this morning by Extinction Rebellion who are locked to a stretch limousine, fuel barrels and a giant steel tripod in call for polluter elite to…
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Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ActNow #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion This morning, gold medal paralympic winner, James Brown, was sentenced to a 12 month prison sentence by a judge at Southwark Crown Court. James is registered blind and will serve at least 6 months.
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The Impossible Rebellion will close today with thousands marching for nature in central London. Starting in Trafalgar Square at 1pm, Extinction Rebellion is marching with our allies to shout loud and clear that we must Stop the Harm to nature and begin its urgent repair. The march will conclude at Hyde Park at 4pm.
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This morning, sixty doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers delivered an urgent public health message to the world’s biggest fossil fuel funder JP Morgan. Four held a banner saying ‘End Fossil Fuel Funding’, others chalk-sprayed ‘CODE RED’ on the walls and the rest staged a ‘die in’ in front of the doors to symbolise the deaths caused by fossil fuel funding. Several doctors were forcibly removed quickly and aggressively by security.
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conditions in an act of mass civil disobedience. They pledged to stay sitting in the road outside the Bank of England until the governor of the bank and the Prime Minister of the UK declare an end to all new fossil fuel funding in line with Extinction Rebellion’s immediate demand. Those breaking police bail carried placards reading ‘arrested on suspicion of acting on the climate emergency’, ‘arrested for wanting a future for our children’ and ‘arrested for caring’.
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At 7am this morning, 8 women lined up at the European office of JP Morgan at Embankment and carefully broke 2 windows with hammers and chisels. Wearing all black, the women used painted hammers with words such as LIFE, LOVE and CARE on them to break glass at the ‘World’s worst bank’. Before doing so they stuck stickers to the windows that read ‘In case of climate emergency, break glass’. Care was taken to make sure no one inside or nearby the building was put at risk of harm
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It is the 9th day of the Impossible Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion is taking our immediate demand to stop all new investment in fossil fuels to the doorsteps of the Government and the City of London.
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At 6pm on Sunday August 29 around 100 people from Extinction Rebellion, including members of XR Youth, XR Scientists, XR Families and XR Communities occupied the science museum with the aim of preventing this iconic institution from opening its doors on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Inside the museum the group held a banner inside the Museum reading ‘IMAGINE A FOSSIL FUEL FREE MUSEUM’.
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Sixteen members of Christian Climate Action, including several clergy members, today staged a protest inside St Paul’s Cathedral to demand the Church of England divest from fossil fuels. Immediately following Communion at a Eucharist service, the group processed to the altar and, facing the congregation, held up banners that read: ‘No Faith in Fossil Fuels’ and ‘Churches Divest Now’. Christian Climate Action is demanding the Church makes an immediate pledge to end all investment in fossil fuel companies and completes that divestment by 31st December 2021.
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