A week in the press-policing quagmire
What led us to this point where police arrest the press, and what was the press' part in it?
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Extinction Rebellion UK statement on COP27
Extinction Rebellion will not attend COP27 in Egypt, nor protest against it. To give airtime to a summit that has monumentally failed humanity and all the living world for 26 years gives the COP process undeserved credence and carries on the charade.
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Court finds XR Scientists not guilty for action at BEIS – while charges are dropped against Shell HQ occupation defendants
Today five Scientists for Extinction Rebellion on trial for criminal damage have been acquitted by a magistrates’ court in London.
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XR UK statement on the Public Order Bill
The Public Order Bill is the work of a government that needs more graft. By suppressing the voices of scientists and everyday people that make up the climate movement the government has chosen to try and make the problem go away. But they’re playing a losing game.
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Extinction Rebellion ‘Cover the Capital’ and replace 10,000 adverts in London
On Saturday evening, hundreds of members of Extinction Rebellion replaced thousands of adverts around London, covering trains and bus stops with posters inviting the public to step up and demand government action on the climate and ecological emergency.
Read full postXR Families screen ‘LETTERS TO OUR CHILDREN’ film in one-off open air cinema event
‘Letters To Our Children’, a powerful and emotional new five minute video from Extinction Rebellion Families shows parents' confessions of fear and hope to their children as the climate and ecological crisis intensifies. The mobile pop-up screening taking place on Saturday 15th October will stop at several locations along the Southbank, starting at dusk at the Tate Modern and ending next to the iconic London Eye.
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BREAKING: Energy bills burned outside Downing Street as Extinction Rebellion brings thousands onto the streets to say ‘We can’t afford this anymore’
At 2pm this afternoon, several people burnt household energy bills in giant ‘oil’ barrels at the entrance to No. 10 Downing Street. Thousands had gathered at Trafalgar Square at noon and marched to the home of the Prime Minister where they will block Whitehall until 6pm. People blocked the roads with banners that said ‘WE CAN’T AFFORD THIS ANYMORE’ and ‘ANTI GROWTH COALITION’ in reference to Liz Truss’s Conservative Party conference speech last week, as the Prime Minister herself gave an emergency press conference a short distance away.
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WE CAN’T AFFORD THIS ANYMORE: Extinction Rebellion to hold weekend of resistance in London on October 14-16
Extinction Rebellion’s Weekend of Resistance will commence from October 14-16 in central London. Thousands will come together in London for a long weekend of mass participation action, an open house event at the Tate Modern, a mass subvertising campaign and much more. Extinction Rebellion is working on a plan that sees the movement growing in numbers and building momentum towards 100k people on the streets in Spring 2023. October 14-16 will be the next step in that journey
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Statement on UK Government mini-budget: The government just declared war on life itself
Yesterday’s budget from this new, unelected government amounts to a declaration of war on life itself. And like many, we’re angry.
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CHANGE IS NOW TOUR: Extinction Rebellion launches national tour to take deliberative democracy around the UK
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +44(0)7756136396Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #ChangeIsNowTour This morning, Extinction Rebellion launched their Change is Now Tour, a tour that will take rebellion, deliberative democracy and movement building right across the UK. A fleet of rebellion buses have set off around the country to…
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