It should come as no surprise that this government has set out to deligitimise protestors when each protest pierces the bubble of complacency surrounding their climate record. This is the desperate act of a government in denial, to censor the voices of dissent rather than face the reality of the situation we are in.
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Extinction Rebellion has launched a LinkedIn ad campaign targeting ex-employees from climate-damaging companies, inviting them to share insider information through its whistleblowing platform TruthTeller.Life.
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Today’s Budget announcement shows that below the surface of vague commitments to “low-carbon investment” the UK Government is continuing on the current course we have been warned is so dangerous. Not only will the government cut £1bn from net-zero spending intended to help insulate homes as part of the ‘Green Homes Grant’ scheme, they are also allowing airports to expand, new coal mines to be built and investment to flow from the UK’s banking and financial sector to new fossil fuel projects.
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In a week when we have heard from David Attenborough [2] and Boris Johnson [3] about the security risks of the climate crisis and the heightened possibility of war, there is no longer any argument that we urgently need change on an unprecedented scale. Yet the best world leaders have come up with are meagre pledges that get us nowhere near where we need to be.
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On Friday February 12 the UK government applied to send Tim Crosland - a lawyer and director of climate litigation charity Plan B, who has previously worked for various governmental organisations including the National Crime Agency - to prison for breaching the Supreme Court’s embargo on the judgement to allow the expansion of Heathrow airport. If convicted Tim could face up to two years in prison.
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Extinction Rebellion launches whistleblowing platform TruthTeller.Life and calls on employees at climate-damaging companies to Whistleblow for the Planet
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With the government's response to the pandemic coming under fire, and Boris Johnson being mocked by leading global scientists and politicians over his decision to open a new coal mine during a climate emergency, it seems appropriate today to launch an enquiry into the deaths caused by this government's policies today and in the future, rather than investigating nonviolent protesters for extremism.
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BREAKING: A small group from Extinction Rebellion have dumped soil outside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) offices in London this morning, the UK government agency responsible for issuing the health and safety guidelines for the eviction at Euston Square Gardens.
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BREAKING: At daybreak this morning, 4 people from Extinction Rebellion used ladders to climb onto the canopy of the HS2 Ltd offices on Eversholt Street in London to display a banner that read ‘Essential work should heal not harm’.
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Today, activists from Money Rebellion (a group within Extinction Rebellion) and Animal Rebellion have taken on credit card debt to pay reparations on behalf of Barclays, calling on the bank to cancel the debt and start repairing the harm they and the wider financial system are causing. Leading the action is GP Sarah Benn, who has made a video explaining why she is taking this action.
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