Picnic in the Park
Picnic with Extinction Rebellion and friends. Saturday, August 16th 2025 at 12 md. St James Park, London. An afternoon of fun , friends and frolics celebrating our community and friendships. All welcome. Bring cake!
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Insure Our Survival Week of Action
This July marks one official year of the Insure Our Survival Campaign and we’re going to be celebrating in style! Throughout a Wave of Action from 2nd-14th July, the Insure Our Survival campaign is turning up the pressure on the fossil fuel insurers who are enabling climate breakdown. It’s time to push harder – to cancel carbon bombs, stop ecocide, and confront climate injustice.
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XR Unify celebrate with the Desi community at Hounslow Mela
The Hounslow Mela, which took place on the 21st June, is a Desi festival which celebrates South Asian culture. Mela comes from the Sanskrit a place 'to gather' and was a fantastic place for XR Unify to engage with the diaspora on climate issues while bringing the community together through art.
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A Summer of Action
This summer, XR groups around the country are preparing for defiant action. Find a protest, block time in your calendar, and join in a season of unity, community, and rebellion.
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New film celebrates climate resistance
A new documentary film by award-winning filmmaker Liz Smith celebrates the resilience and courage of those taking action in the face of an alarming clampdown on protest rights in the UK at a time of accelerating ecological crisis.
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News UK window-breakers trial postponed
The climate protectors accused of breaking the windows at the offices of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, publishers of tabloid The Sun, had their trial postponed on the day it was due to begin. Southwark Crown Court said they had overbooked and there was not enough court space to hear the trial. Consequently the case was postponed until 16 November 2026 - some four and a half years after the action.
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Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport
Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights.
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MSPs join activists to call out BP’s corruption of Holyrood
John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, seems to be saying the right things. Just earlier this month he condemned “anti-science climate denial” as he said the climate crisis is “one of the greatest global issues of our time”. But is this nothing more than empty words? [1] In one of the largest reviews of corporate lobbying…
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Climate campaigners disrupt insurance brokers’ conference for third year
Extinction Rebellion's Insure Our Survival campaign kept up the pressure on delegates to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) - Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference - with a colourful, day-long dramatic protest demanding they boycott deals with fossil fuel insurers and fossil fuel projects.
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We are scientists, and we are taking action!
Today sees the free-to-view release of Plan Z: From Lab Coats to Handcuffs, a short but urgent film in which scientists share what compelled them to direct action —and why they are willing to risk their liberty to fight for change. Watch now on YouTube.
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