WARNING: The following is a statement for our friends in the mainstream media. We apologise in advance for any journalistic offence this may cause. What a difference a day makes’ is a great song, but like most things it depends on what ‘version’ of the song you’re singing – Washington or Winehouse? They sound…
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Email: press@risingup.org.ukPhone: +447561 098449 Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#WeWantToLive #ExtinctionRebellion #ActNow “Climate change is a serious threat: every one of us has the responsibility to protect our future and the future of the next generation,” – Lewis Hamilton Extinction Rebellion drop large banner reading ‘Act…
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From 7am on Saturday 1st of August 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), Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, and A Tribe Named Athari, will occupy the area for the day demanding holistic reparations, including planet repairs.
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Over the last few days many of us have been watching with alarm at the situation unravelling at the HS2 protection camp at Denham Country Park, Uxbridge, West London. Outside of the London-centric media view, protestors, many of them young people in their teens acting out of conscience and grave concern for their future, have…
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This morning, protesters from Extinction Rebellion, Women of Colour - Global Women’s Strike and Global Justice Rebellion have prevented access to an arms factory that produces equipment including tear gas and rubber bullets. The factory is owned by the PWD Group, which was part of Chemring Defence UK until June last year. A parallel protest is taking place in central London at the entrance to the Department for International Trade, the government department responsible for arms export licences.
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We must be clear that this plan will not protect us and it demonstrates that although Rishi Sunak is capable of addressing an immediate crisis, he is unwilling to make the broad reaching, long term changes that are needed for planetary repair. Coronavirus has shown us that this government is willing to delay and cause the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of people. The numbers will be far larger if we let them get away with this one.
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Today Extinction Rebellion reveals plans for their next UK Rebellion - beginning on 1 September - when the UK Parliament is due to sit again. We will peacefully blockade the area around the Houses of Parliament until the Government agrees to sign our 3 demands into law during their first debate back from summer recess.
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The tactics of disruption and nonviolent civil disobedience are at the heart of everything Extinction Rebellion does. We have been told that these tactics and our interpretation of them have excluded black people, other communities racialised as non-white, and other marginalised groups, and contributed to narratives that have put those communities at risk.
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Today the Committee on Climate Change, the Government’s official climate advisors, released their report detailing what progress has been made one year on from the adoption of the target to reach net zero emissions by 2050. The report reveals a staggering lack of progress, with only four of the 21 indicators on track and two of 31 milestones reached on the road to net zero emissions.
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On June 20th, Extinction Rebellion, Stop HS2 campaigners and local communities along the HS2 route will begin a week long march from Birmingham to London to oppose the building of the controversial train line that is decimating countryside communities and creating a huge financial burden at a time of deep economic crisis.
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