UPDATE 5.45pm: 11 sites, a wedding and a hearse

October 07, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Email: press@risingup.org.uk National Office Phone: +44(0)7986671716 / +44(0)7561098449 / +44(0)7804743058 / +44(0)77391 86640 / +44(0)7479234522 Bristol/Wales (We Are All Crew): +44(0)07722062502 / +44(0)7495297625 North England (Rewilding North): +44(0)7794718962  South West England (Global Food Justice): +44(0)7711898499 / +44(0)7778267833 East of England and Midlands (Love Rebellion): +44(0)7548691855 / +44(0)7877769492 South East (Beyond Politics): +44(0)7857445653 Scotland/North East/Cumbria…

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The Rebellion Will Be Regenerative – Get ready for the largest regenerative movement of civil disobedience in history.

October 06, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Email: press@risingup.org.uk Phone: +44(0)7747732995 /+44(0)7986671716 / +44(0)7561098449 / +44(0)7804743058 / +44(0)77391 86640 / +44(0)7479234522 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | Crowd Funder  | New – What emergency? | Extinction Rebellion in Numbers |This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. #EverybodyNow  #ExtinctionRebellion Thousands…

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Uni Dropouts: A message from XR Youth

October 06, 2019 by XR UK Video

Across the UK, many University students have decided to step out of mainstream education to work full within the climate movement.

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Statement from Extinction Rebellion Liberation

October 05, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion Liberation (XR Liberation) is a group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who have assembled with the goal of addressing oppression within XR, and using the platform XR has created to work with those addressing oppression in wider society. XR Liberation is among a number of groups in Extinction Rebellion each addressing different areas of these very complex issues.

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Essential Rebellion Info – Ready or Not, here we come!

October 04, 2019 by Rebel Writers

(Sign up here!) Illustration by Janice Chang The UK’s rebellion in April launched Extinction Rebellion onto the world stage. We brought London to a halt, captured imaginations, and put humanity’s survival on the national agenda. Now we’re back – with more experience, more resources, and five times the numbers. If we’re to…

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Video: Ruth Jarman’s Day in Court

October 02, 2019 by Zoe Blackler

Ruth Jarman, 56, a mother of three from Hampshire who works for a small Christian charity, was found guilty last week after standing trial at Hendon Magistrates Court. She was given a 12 months conditional discharge and a total of £640 costs. Film-maker Peter Armstrong recorded this video of Ruth’s day in court. The…

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In Paris, the Climate March converges with other movements

September 30, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

Article and pictures by Victor Chaix In the wake of the international Youth Strike for Climate on September 20th which brought millions of teenagers and adults alike to the streets in record-breaking numbers all over the world, a special Marche pour le Climat [Climate March] was organized in Paris and all over France…

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Extinction Rebellion trials and hearings this week (30 September to 4 October)

September 30, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

30 Extinction Rebellion defendants are on trial this week across LondonSix trials are for public order offences during the April Rebellion; one trial is for offences under the Police ActThe Shell 7 will attend a preliminary hearing at Southwark Crown Court charged with criminal damage to the oil major’s HQ A further 50 people are expected…

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Ecology & Equity: towards a class conscious climate justice movement

September 29, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion

by Greenjacker The 2009 book The Spirit Level (published by Allen Lane), written by epidemiologists Richard G. Wilson and Kate Pickett, demonstrated the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”. These effects have factored heavily in the development of the climate and extinction…

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Announcements #2 The season of change begins!

September 27, 2019 by XR Newsletter

Sign up to receive the newsletter here. This week, we reflect on the legacy we are leaving behind. ‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood’ Greta declares at the UN climate summit in New York, ‘and yet I am one of the lucky ones.’ The audience cheer, but her face stays stony,…

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