A selection of images from the Marble Arch site, which saw giant feasts, group trainings, a speech from Greta Thunberg to an enormous crowd, secret gigs from Massive Attack, a grand piano in the road, a Banksy, and an abundance of speeches and live performances.
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Join us at 6.30 tonight for our second webinar looking back on the April Rebellion and forward to the future. With George Marshall, Rupert Read, Sarah Lunnon, Sarah Zaltash and Liam Norton and Clare Farrell.
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To celebrate the April Anniversary, we have re-released this special commemorative podcast. Hear from the people who were there and feel as if you were too, with the experience enriched by photos from the Rebellion.
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Jon Fuller, from XR's Media Tell the Truth team, on what has changed in the media's reporting of the climate and ecological crisis - and how far we still have to go.
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More than 1,000 people were charged with criminal offences after being arrested during the April Rebellion. Many read out statements in court which explained why they did what they did. Part One in a series of videos featuring the voices of arrestees reading excerpts from those statements.
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A year ago today, XR's pink 'Tell the Truth' boat sailed into Oxford Circus. While we're all on lockdown, join us in celebrating that anniversary by making your own paper boat, a miniature memorial of the April Rebellion.
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The Oxford Circus site was one of vibrance, music, joy, laughter and resilience. Of course, everyone remembers the good ship ‘Tell the Truth’ - or Berta Cáceres, as she was officially named after the murdered Honduran activist - but there were so many other stories unravelling within that square that it would be impossible to tell them all. The images below capture some of the best bits of that extraordinary week. Enjoy!
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To kick off our celebration of the April Rebellion, join us at 6.30 tonight for a webinar exploring how it all unfolded. With panelists George Monbiot (Guardian columnist), Zuhuru Plummer (illustrator and XR activist) and Jessica Townsend (author and XR podcast coordinator). Facilitated by Jamie Kelsey Fry.
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The April Rebellion Remembered. Bring back our boats with the origami boat challenge, stop the bailout of polluters and take part in one of the many other upcoming online actions and events
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Over the ten miraculous days of the April Rebellion, London became host to some truly surreal and spectacular sights. But surely the most iconic of them all was the pink party boat moored to the tarmac of Oxford Circus
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