Climate activists occupy WPP’s HQ to demand global ad giant cuts its ties to Big Oil

June 25, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Early Media: 20230625 CTT Early Media share folder Picture Link: https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-news/search?collectionIds=685a7d433ec00754ba953d8e Media Contact: Carol 07791 737093 For immediate release The activists, from climate campaign group Cut The Ties to Fossil Fuels, also call on Government to ban fossil fuel advertising Today (25 June), climate activists have taken over the headquarters of advertising agency…

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A Summer of Action

June 19, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

This summer, XR groups around the country are preparing for defiant action. Find a protest, block time in your calendar, and join in a season of unity, community, and rebellion.

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RFU silent on due diligence as Extinction Rebellion “red card” floody insurers Allianz at rugby final

June 14, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

The Rugby Football Union has failed so far to respond to questions about the due diligence it carries out when selecting suitable sponsors. Extinction Rebellion put the questions to the RFU in writing on Thursday ahead of the rugby final at Twickenham this weekend. 

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New film celebrates climate resistance

June 13, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

A new documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Liz Smith celebrates the resilience and courage of those taking action in the face of an alarming clampdown on protest rights in the UK at a time of accelerating ecological crisis.

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News UK window-breakers trial postponed

June 13, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

The climate protectors accused of breaking the windows at the offices of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, publishers of tabloid The Sun, had their trial postponed on the day it was due to begin. Southwark Crown Court said they had overbooked and there was not enough court space to hear the trial. Consequently the case was postponed until 16 November 2026 - some four and a half years after the action.

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Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport

June 11, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights.

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Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year

May 26, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion's Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) - Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference - with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects.

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Climate protectors accused of breaking News UK windows to go on trial

May 06, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Five people go on trial on Monday 12 May at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the headquarters of News UK (formerly News International) in July 2022. Two carefully broke windows while the other three flyposted newspaper articles. The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism. We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to more ambitious action.

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Join XRUK at Lakenheath Alliance For Peace

February 26, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Join XRUK at the camp organised by Lakenheath Alliance For Peace, culminating in a blockade of the largest US airbase in Europe.

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Protestors blockade Farnborough Airport to protest plans to double private jet flights

February 06, 2025 by Extinction Rebellion

Local residents and climate activists blocked Farnborough Airport this week to protest against the proposed expansion of the airport which will almost double the number of private jet flights to 70,000 a year, in a move which blatantly ignores the climate crisis.

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