Insure Our Survival Campaign Marks First Anniversary with Nationwide Wave of Action Targeting Fossil Fuel Insurers

July 02, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

For immediate release. This July, the Insure Our Survival (IOS) campaign marks one powerful year of mobilisation. Over the past 12 months, IOS has coordinated more than 150 actions, targeting 27 insurance firms in over 40 towns and cities. Now, the momentum is accelerating. From 2-14 July, a UK-wide Wave of Action will ramp up pressure on the insurers enabling climate destruction. Across the country, activists will expose the “dirty insurers” underwriting and brokering some of the world’s most devastating fossil fuel projects.

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Climate activists occupy WPP’s HQ to demand global ad giant cuts its ties to Big Oil

June 25, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Early Media: 20230625 CTT Early Media share folder Picture Link: https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-news/search?collectionIds=685a7d433ec00754ba953d8e Media Contact: Carol 07791 737093 For immediate release The activists, from climate campaign group Cut The Ties to Fossil Fuels, also call on Government to ban fossil fuel advertising Today (25 June), climate activists have taken over the headquarters of advertising agency…

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Africa Energy Summit faces accusations of colonial racism from right and left

May 14, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Free London, War on Want, Christian Climate Action, Rainforest Foundation, StopEACOP UK, and others were joined by Senegalese drummers and videos from Extinction Rebellion Democratic Republic of Congo outside the Africa Energy Summit in London today.

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Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference confronted with climate protests

May 14, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Delegates at Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference were greeted today at Manchester Central by environmental groups demanding the industry stops backing fossil fuel projects.

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Three arrested as women and FINT protesters hold topless blockade at Lakenheath air base

April 25, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

XR UK press office: +44(0)7756136396 | press@extinctionrebellion.uk Action photos | Lakenheath Peace Camp photos and videos At 9:30am this morning, twelve women, intersex, non-binary and trans activists – aged from 24 to 91 – held a topless blockade of the main gate of RAF Lakenheath, denouncing the deadly entanglements between military emissions,…

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BP targeted by intergenerational Extinction Rebellion activists over strategy U-turn

April 07, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Early Media | Picture Link Media Contact: +44(0)7756136396 | press@extinctionrebellion.uk Kids use their school holidays to protest multinational oil giant Protesters single out BP CEO Murray Auchincloss with WANTED posters Chris Pakcham says BP’s U-turn shows oil companies will burn the planet unless we stop them Activists aged 4 to 83…

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Climate chaos hits McKinsey & Co’s London HQ

February 17, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying McKinsey & Company’s London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit.

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Climate activists occupy London HQ of law firm that supports Big Oil

December 04, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion is today (4 December) occupying the City of London headquarters of international law firm A&O Shearman that is playing a leading role in oiling the legal wheels of the deadly fossil fuel machine setting our planet on fire. 

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Campaigners blockade Surrey oil field to protest UK Oil & Gas flouting Supreme Court ruling

October 14, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Today, nine Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to protest the company’s continued extraction of fossil fuels at the site in blatant contravention of a Supreme Court ruling made earlier this year. 

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‘Climate lie factory that poisons democracy’ occupied by Extinction Rebellion

July 29, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying the central London offices of Policy Exchange, a climate crisis denial lobbyist funded by fossil fuel crooks that pretends to be a think tank. The protestors entered Policy Exchange’s notorious Westminster offices this morning (29 July) to demand an end to a campaign of lies and disinformation that has slowed climate action and led directly to long jail sentences for activists.

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