News: Press

THIS SUNDAY: Extinction Rebellion join Reparations Rebellion to lock-down Brixton in call for reparations and planet repairs

July 29, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

From 10am on Sunday August 1 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), the youth led Global Majority Vs UK Gov Campaign, as well as other student and youth movements, will occupy the area for the day demanding holistic reparations, including planet repairs.

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Paralympian who scaled a plane guilty of public nuisance

July 29, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

Former Paralympian, James Brown, who climbed on top of an aircraft during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion was yesterday found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. James, 56, who is registered blind, was charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.

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Trial begins of Paralympian who climbed on top of a plane

July 26, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

The jury trial of former Paralympian James Brown, who climbed on top of an aeroplane during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion, begins this morning. James, 56, who is visually-impaired, is charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.

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Not The Sun – Extinction Rebellion’s love letter to the tabloids

July 23, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion create a bold new national tabloid newspaper that major printers were too scared of Rupert Murdoch to print

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First XR defendant acquitted under Supreme Court’s ‘Ziegler’ ruling

July 21, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

One of the first XR defendants to be tried for Obstruction of the Highway following the landmark Ziegler Supreme Court ruling has been acquitted. District Judge Cohen ruled that Ben Benatt, an environmental scientist from Brighton, was acting reasonably and proportionately when he sat in the road during the September 2020 Rebellion and refused to move.

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Statement on the conviction today of six members who took part in the blockade of Murdoch’s printworks in September 2020

July 16, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

As floods devastate Europe, another heat dome is building in the United States, and environmental defenders across the world are being silenced, XR will continue to demand that the press tell the truth about the climate and ecological emergency.

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Jury trial of five XR members for Brazilian Embassy action begins today

July 12, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

The Crown Court trial for five members of Extinction Rebellion charged with criminal damage during a protest at the Brazilian embassy begins today (Monday 12 July 2021).

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Cut the Crap! Extinction Rebellion dump pile of (bull)shit outside Daily Mail offices

June 27, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

At 7am this morning, Extinction Rebellion made a surprise visit to the Daily Mail Group offices at Northcliffe House, where they dumped 7 tons of horse manure outside the main entrance. The action kicked off a day of protest, sending a message to the 4 billionaire owners of 68% of the UK’s print media - Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere, Sir Frederik Barclay and Baron Evegeny Lebedev - to ‘cut the buillsh*t!’, demanding an end to media corruption that suppresses the truth from the public for profit.

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BREAKING: CAUGHT IN THE ACT – Police arrest women making art in Extinction Rebellion warehouse raid

June 25, 2021 by Extinction Rebellion

As we speak, around 40 police officers are raiding the Extinction Rebellion art factory in London, with 4 women arrested so far. The women were ‘caught in the act’ creating art for Extinction Rebellion’s Free the Press march on Sunda

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