Here we go again. Further seeds of doubt have been sown today by the Times in a piece titled “Baseless climate warnings wiped from Extinction Rebellion film” undermining the stark risks we face from climate breakdown.[1]
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On the 24th of August five members of the Burning Pink Party (BPP), formally known as the Beyond Politics Party, including Roger Hallam, Blyth Brentnall, Diana Warner, Ferhat Ulusu and Anglican priest Steven Nunn, were arrested in their homes. They appeared in person at Highbury and Islington Magistrates court at 12 noon yesterday, charged with conspiracy to commit public nuisance and criminal damage, as well as breaking bail conditions. They are being held on remand until their plea hearing at the end of September. Four of the five arrested have also worked with Extinction Rebellion.
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Beginning Friday August 28, Extinction Rebellion’s ‘Countdown to Rebellion’ will kick off in towns and cities across the UK. The weekend will be filled with creative, nonviolent direct action to draw attention to the greatest existential threat we face - the climate and ecological emergency. People up and down the country will come together in their communities to tell the government that, frankly, we’ve had enough of them putting us all at risk.
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Seafaring folk and coastal dwellers in Cornwall carried out a demonstration last night against polluting cruise shipping in Falmouth Harbour. FALMOUTH HARBOUR, CORNWALL, UK — Ocean Rebellion, a new grassroots non-violent direct action movement, launches today, Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
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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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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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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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