Email: press@risingup.org.uk | Phone: 07979971209 | 07482729729 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | New – Crowdfund the #ElectionRebellion! #ExtinctionRebellion #UpgradeDemocracy #BeyondPolitics Friday 24 January sees the launch of Climate Assembly UK – a citizens’ assembly commissioned by six parliamentary select committees.This assembly does not meet XR’s Third…
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Email: press@risingup.org.ukPhone: 07561098449 / 07479234522 / 07802865819 / 07482729729Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | Crowdfunder#ExtinctionRebellion #ActNow #TellTheTruth This news from Rolling Stone is devastating. We thank them for their work in uncovering this story that the public and particularly workers in the oil and gas industry…
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It’s not always the case that something is better than nothing, particularly if it’s used to distract from the truth. And the truth is that the world’s biggest miners and polluters will not be losing any sleep over this.
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How dare they. Children up and down the country are desperately fighting for a future. Teachers, grandparents, nurses have been trying their best with loving nonviolence to get politicians and big business to do something about the dire state of our planet.
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From 12pm today, hundreds of people from Extinction Rebellion UK are protesting outside the Australian Embassy on the Strand in London to protest against the Australian government’s failure to respond to the bushfires and the climate and ecological emergency.
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This Sunday 22nd December, Chris Packham and his daughter Megan McCubbin join Extinction Rebellion aboard an open-top double decker bus to tour through central London.
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Three Extinction Rebellion protesters who glued themselves to a Docklands Light Railway train during the April Rebellion have each been given a conditional discharge after a jury found them guilty “with regret”.
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8 filmmakers from the Extinction Rebellion UK group, Film Strike for Climate, occupied the red carpet at the Star Wars European Premiere in London’s Leicester Square this evening, as some of Hollywood’s biggest stars arrived.[1]
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After 26 days, Peter Cole, Marko Stepanov and Julian May have ended their hunger strike, breaking their fast on Election night, Friday 13th December. Surrounded by around thirty members of Extinction Rebellion, the trio watched the re-elected Prime Minister entered CCHQ without so much as a glimmer of recognition for them, as the Conservative leader had regularly passed so unresponsively through the guarded gates before.
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To mark the end of this year’s COP, Extinction Rebellion has delivered a present to our world leaders who have come here for this most important gathering: a tonne of Madrid’s finest horse manure. Our message to world leaders is this:
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