In a significant victory for local biodiversity and community resistance, Harrogate Spring Water bottling factory expansion plans reserved matters were recently refused. The proposal by the multinational giant Danone would have seen the destruction of Rotary Wood, a 4.25-acre area of community woodland in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. This would have meant the felling of approximately…
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The path from spring to summer has a beautiful way of revealing what has been gaining strength invisibly. Roots grow underground long before anything breaks the surface. Networks form quietly beneath hard ground. By the time the first shoots appear, the real work has already been happening for months. Something similar can be felt across…
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Press contact: DMC@MediaSovereignty.org+44 (0)7947884299 After just seven weeks, a Parliamentary Petition demanding that the government pass the Media Sovereignty Act has reached the necessary threshold of 10,000 signatures. This means that the Labour government now has to state its position on the domination of British politics, through the hijacking of our media, by a…
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This Saturday members of Extinction Rebellion groups from across the East of England came together to make the local public aware of the incinerator on their doorstep. The Rivenhall Incinerator was built in Essex in 2025 by Belgium-owned Indaver, which has already been accused of greenwashing and is embroiled in controversy after failing to adhere to the site’s initial planning permission, which involved building recycling facilities adjoining the incinerator.
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Hi-Resolution Press Assets: https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-news/search?collectionIds=69e9e39eb8a2f01f8324d483Press Contact: press@extinctionrebellion.co.uk HUNDREDS GATHER IN CENTRAL LONDON FOR EARTH DAY: FAITH GROUPS, ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS AND PARLIAMENTARIANS UNITE IN CALL FOR CLEAN WATER, CLEAN AIR AND AN END TO FOSSIL FUEL EXPANSION On a morning of warm spring light, several hundred…
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Images available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kMtl64icQeTuf8a8KCX74y3vtu_lOyqA Contact: press@lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk | 07546 291378 | 07552 122901 Fourteen peace campaigners were arrested during a 6 hour blockade of the main gates at RAF Lakenheath on Monday 6th April. RAF Lakenheath is used exclusively by the United State Air Force and is sending fighter jets to the Iran…
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There was a moment at the Together march on Saturday 28th March that felt like a homecoming. Hundreds of thousands of people filling the streets of London: colour, music, bodies taking up space with intention and joy. For those of us who have spent years learning how to do this, who lived through the policing…
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TOGETHER — AND WIDE AWAKE London, 28 March 2026 — Extinction Rebellion will take to the streets of London tomorrow as part of the Together Alliance march, joining teachers, care workers, trade unionists, faith communities, artists and organisers in one of the biggest shows of collective will this country has seen in years.
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A pause before we build Last Saturday, 28 February 2026, I marched through central London with thousands of other people in the biggest ever protest about the use of AI. This march was organised by young people and it showed in the energy of the day. Pull The Plug teamed up with…
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Images available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u7jmOXNuVSBm5XsMoacGuTRJIRde-H6j For more information please contact Christian Climate Action on christianclimateaction@gmail.com or 07427770385. Christian climate activists ‘died’ on the steps of St Paul’s on the 18th and 19th February to call on Church of England leaders to urge the Government to refuse the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea.
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