Extinction Rebellion South West’s Protestival at the end of May was everything we’d hoped for – and more.A return to the community and passion we associate with Extinction Rebellion and a call for increasing action as the climate and ecological crises worsen – all delivered with XR’s creative flare.The workshops were inspiring,…
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On 27th November 2025, ten of the UK’s leading experts presented a National Emergency Briefing to an invited audience of more than 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport and the media in Westminster. Those who attended include broadcaster Chris Packham, actress Jennifer Saunders, business guru Deborah Meaden and musician Brian Eno,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Unanimous not guilty: All Extinction Rebellion ‘JP Morgan medics’ cleared A jury has delivered a unanimous not-guilty verdict to the six healthcare professionals from Health for Extinction Rebellion who cracked windows at JP Morgan Chase’s European headquarters during the July 2022 heatwave. After fewer than four hours of deliberation,…
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As spring slowly approaches, we turn our attention to what’s been growing beneath the surface over winter. Rest and regeneration are not absence or delay. Nature doesn’t move by calendars or commands and gardens don’t bloom on January 1st. If we are serious about preserving nature and the living world, we have to…
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