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 of approximately…
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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 be felt across…
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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 policing…
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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 with…
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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, all six defendants…
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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 keep remembering…
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On 28th November 2025, Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) revealed that the government is drawing up plans to grant police and courts sweeping new powers to declare entire protest or dissent movements as “subversive” — effectively labelling civil resistance itself as a security threat. Under the proposals, activism and protest could be judged…
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XR UK press team press@extinctionrebellion.uk “This World is Ours: Resist. Reclaim. Rise up!”Climate Change is real. The planet is heating, primarily as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. In the resulting chaos, the thirtieth Conference of the Parties (COP30) is meeting in Belem, Brazil.Extinction Rebellion UK and allies across…
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