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Six pregnant women bare their bumps at Piccadilly Circus, demanding an end to fossil fuels

July 31, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

On the morning of July 31 at Piccadilly Circus, six women stood with their six unborn children in their pregnant bare bellies, demanding an end to fossil fuels. The words ‘My Future’ were printed on their bumps and they held a giant ‘umbilical cord’, connected to a petrol pump and nozzle. Desperate for a cleaner world for their unborn children, they were drawing attention to Extinction Rebellion’s demand for an immediate ban on all new fossil fuel projects.

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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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