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Bushfire Rebellion: XR UK brings bushfires to Australian Embassy

January 10, 2020 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Chris Packham, Extinction Rebellion and #ReThinkHS2 Deliver The Present No Child Wants This Christmas

December 21, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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DLR 3 Receive Minimum Sentence After Jury Regrets Conviction

December 19, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Extinction Rebellion UK filmmakers block red carpet at Star Wars London Premiere

December 18, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Hunger Strike Ends on Night of Defiance

December 15, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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Extinction Rebellion on COP25: ‘What a pile of shite this is’

December 14, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

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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A Regenerative Resistance

December 13, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

“We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us” – Jo Cox Today dawns a new political era in the UK. We recognise that rebels will be feeling a lot after what we saw as the most important election ever in the UK…

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Extinction Rebellion statement following meeting with COP25 President’s team – “not on course to address the planetary emergency”

December 13, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

This morning, representatives of Extinction Rebellion met the team of advisers supporting COP president and Chilean environment minister, Carolina Schmidt. The representatives of Extinction Rebellion were Skeena Rathor, Tim Crosland and Marc Lopatin.

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Monday, 9.30am: Extinction Rebellion’s first Crown Court trial begins

December 12, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

The trial of three Extinction Rebellion protesters who disrupted the Docklands Light Railway during the April Rebellion begins on Monday (16th December) at Inner London Crown Court. Cathy Eastburn, Mark Ovland and Luke Watson are the first members of Extinction Rebellion to have their cases heard before a jury of fellow citizens, rather than in a Magistrate’s court where judges sit alone.

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