Kiwi Kick-Off 7 OCT | Wellington, New Zealand Aotearoa rebels kicked off the International Rebellion by shutting down their capital, Wellington. Rising early, they seized and held the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (AKA Ministry for Oil, Gas and Minerals) all day, blocking all entrances with glued hands and “climate crime scene” tape. The…
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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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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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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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(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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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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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…
Read full post30 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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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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