Red handed march took the message to UK government departments and asked ‘What’s your plan?’ Rebels on bamboo structures block the road at Oxford Circus. Photo: John Paul Brown George Monbiot, shortly before being arrested Rebel ‘Boris’ climbs Big Ben’s scaffolding calling for a citizen’s assembly on the climate and ecological emergency, as part…
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Facebook | xrgrandparents@gmail.com On Tuesday 15 October, over a hundred grandparents came together under the name of Extinction Rebellion Grandparents to protect the futures of their grandchildren and of children around the world. The group gathered on the steps of the Queen Victoria Memorial Statue outside Buckingham Palace, many of them…
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(Sign up to the International Newsletter here) Day 9 in Extinction Rebellion across the world was a day of contrasts. In London, we witnessed a disturbing attack on civil rights – rightly condemned by Amnesty International, lawyers and politicians – and on the same day, our…
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Germany Climate Camp, Berlin Day and night blockade of Stresemannstrasse, Berlin. 48 hours car free! Sweden XR Sweden: “Most of us are now heading home to Sweden from #BerlinBlockieren. Thanks to @XRBerlin @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Aufstand and everyone else for an inspirational and well-organised week of actions! We are unstoppable — another world…
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London rebels sat on a monument outside the Bank of England this morning, satirical broadsheets in hand. “Don’t panic, we’ve still got 23 trees left,” read one “don’t worry, it’s all good” read another. Yes, they were funny. But they bore grim resemblance to the message we are getting from this country’s political elite. The…
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The Climate and Ecological Emergency isn’t going away and we remain resolute in facing it. We urge the Government and the authorities to join us in doing the same. We cannot do it alone. This is bigger than all of us. To rebels, this is a moment to pause and remember why we are here.
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Phone: 07495 297625 Email: media.xrbristol@protonmail.com Extinction Rebellion (XR) calls on the world’s largest asset management company BlackRock to: Wake up and smell your role in funding the burning of the Amazon and wildfires in the Arctic. Stop investing immediately in the worst companies driving global deforestation. Divest from fossil fuel stocks over the next five years and…
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Extinction Rebellion this morning are disrupting the system bankrolling the environmental crisis. The day started at 7am at Bank Junction when they blocked routes that financial district workers take to work.
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Email: press@risingup.org.uk National Office Phone: +44(0)7986671716 / +44(0)7561098449 / +44(0)7804743058 / +44(0)77391 86640 / +44(0)7479234522Numbers for local groups are at the bottom of this release Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Assets | Crowd Funder | What emergency? | Extinction Rebellion in Numbers |This Is Not…
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Email: lawyersforxr@gmail.comTwitter: @XRLawyersMedia assets available herePhoto credits: Izzy Romilly / @izzyromilly Lawyers for Extinction Rebellion make Declaration of Rebellion in outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the historic centre of the UK’s legal sectorEminent lawyers and environmetnal activists speak in support of Extinction RebellionLawyers then took to the streets around Temple to circulate…
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