26-27 JUNE: THIS IS AN UPRISING – Extinction Rebellion launches plans for post-lockdown ‘Uprising’ in London

April 15, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion UK has launched plans this week for post-lockdown protest on the weekend of 26/27 June. The early summer ‘uprising’ which is scheduled for the first weekend after lockdown restrictions officially end in the UK, aims to capture rising momentum across the country after a difficult year of separation, Westminster and industry cronyism, civil unrest and clampdowns on dissent from a government drunk on power.

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Extinction Rebellion versus Shell: Crown Court trial begins today – ‘Shell Knew’

April 12, 2021 by Zoe Blackler

Monday 12 April 2021, London, UK: Seven people - including two Extinction Rebellion co-founders - charged with £25K worth of criminal damage at Shell’s London HQ will appear at Southwark Crown Court in London for a jury trial. [1] Dubbed the ‘Shell 7’, this is the second jury trial of an Extinction Rebellion related case and comes almost two years to the day since Shell was the focus of non violent direct action when Extinction Rebellion’s April Rebellion in 2019 began.

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‘Better broken windows than broken promises’ – Extinction Rebellion women break windows at Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf

April 07, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

On Wednesday 7th of April at 7am seven women from Extinction Rebellion carefully cracked the glass in the windows of Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf, London. The women wore patches reading 'better broken windows than broken promises' and placed stickers on the windows of the bank reading 'in case of climate emergency break glass' before carefully hitting the glass with hammers and chisels.

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3 April United for our right to protest: Extinction Rebellion, United for Black Lives and others collaborate in national day of action against the Policing Bill

April 02, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

This Saturday 4th April at 1pm, a large coalition of groups collaborating to oppose the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill will unite around the country to march for the right to protest. In London people will meet at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park for 1pm to march through the streets in a celebration of unity, diversity and protest and in direct opposition to the Policing Bill that seeks to stifle them.

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‘No More Fossil Fools’ – Extinction Rebellion spray fake oil on Bank of England as part of a Global Money Rebellion 

April 01, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

This morning in an elaborate April Fools prank two members of Extinction Rebellion dressed as 'Fossil Fools' who are recklessly endangering our future for profit - sprayed the front of the Bank of England with fake oil. Others held a banner outside that read 'No More Fossil Fools'.

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‘Oi Barclays, clean your act up!’ – Extinction Rebellion Dirty Scrubbers pay a visit to Barclays HQ

March 30, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

This morning Extinction Rebellion Dirty Scrubbers took their theatrical protest to Barclays Bank headquarters in Canary Wharf with a letter to the bank to the bank demanding it ‘clean its act up!’ The scrubbers were armed with a ‘wobbly washing machine’ and a bubble machine. They washed the blood, oil, and greenwash out of Barclays’ dirty money and cleaned the black carbon out of Barclays’ arctic exploration in a theatrical performance designed to highlight the role of banks in the climate and ecological emergency.

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Extinction Rebellion co-founder Dr Gail Bradbrook breaks window at Barclays Bank in act of civil disobedience

March 30, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

Dr Gail Bradbrook, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion broke the window of Barclays Bank in Stroud at around 6am this morning. The action was carried out carefully before opening hours in order to reduce any risk of harm. Dr Bradbrook is already awaiting trial for alleged criminal damage at the Department for Transport in October 2019. [1]

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Extinction Rebellion UK statement on events in Bristol yesterday

March 22, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

The tensions of the past week around the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill have evoked a visceral response around the UK from a public who feel powerless. What we saw in Bristol yesterday was the effect of the Government overplaying its hand and attempting to outlaw the basic right to protest, threatening peaceful protestors with 10 year sentences at a time when we are faced with numerous intersecting crises.

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#KillTheBill: Joint Statement on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill From XR, BLM local groups, RAAH and more

March 15, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

This is an open statement written by a coalition of UK organisations, groups & social movements of all ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, sexualities, faiths, abilities, ages and social standings, who have united to challenge the UK government. We are extremely troubled and disturbed by the newly proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in its current form. The deliberately vague language used would enable the police to act unilaterally with near unlimited discretion.

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Extinction Rebellion UK statement on the HMICFRS report: You can make it a crime to care, but you won’t stop us caring

March 11, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

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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