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THIS SUNDAY: Extinction Rebellion join Reparations Rebellion to lock-down Brixton in call for reparations and planet repairs

July 29, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

From 10am on Sunday August 1 Extinction Rebellion will join in support of the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion Groundings to block Brixton Road from Max Roach Park to Windrush Square. The coalition of groups, including the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign, Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee, Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network (XRISN), the youth led Global Majority Vs UK Gov Campaign, as well as other student and youth movements, will occupy the area for the day demanding holistic reparations, including planet repairs.

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Paralympian who scaled a plane guilty of public nuisance

July 29, 2021 by Zoe Blackler

Former Paralympian, James Brown, who climbed on top of an aircraft during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion was yesterday found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. James, 56, who is registered blind, was charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.

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Trial begins of Paralympian who climbed on top of a plane

July 26, 2021 by Zoe Blackler

The jury trial of former Paralympian James Brown, who climbed on top of an aeroplane during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion, begins this morning. James, 56, who is visually-impaired, is charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.

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First XR defendant acquitted under Supreme Court’s ‘Ziegler’ ruling

July 21, 2021 by Zoe Blackler

One of the first XR defendants to be tried for Obstruction of the Highway following the landmark Ziegler Supreme Court ruling has been acquitted. District Judge Cohen ruled that Ben Benatt, an environmental scientist from Brighton, was acting reasonably and proportionately when he sat in the road during the September 2020 Rebellion and refused to move.

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Cut the Crap! Extinction Rebellion dump pile of (bull)shit outside Daily Mail offices

June 27, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

At 7am this morning, Extinction Rebellion made a surprise visit to the Daily Mail Group offices at Northcliffe House, where they dumped 7 tons of horse manure outside the main entrance. The action kicked off a day of protest, sending a message to the 4 billionaire owners of 68% of the UK’s print media - Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere, Sir Frederik Barclay and Baron Evegeny Lebedev - to ‘cut the buillsh*t!’, demanding an end to media corruption that suppresses the truth from the public for profit.

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Dear Daily Telegraph, here are the results of our free fact check of your recent article!

June 22, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

On Saturday the Telegraph published a piece by their associate editor Gordon Rayner about Extinction Rebellion’s upcoming Free the Press actions. The headline read: ‘For the silent majority, police failure to come down hard on Extinction Rebellion will be a surrender to mob rule’. The trouble is, despite conflated media spin and a number of falsehoods, the article seemed to make it past the Telegraph’s fact checking process. Don’t worry, we’ve done it for you!

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