2024: Now we step it up
2023 wasn’t a good year for the planet and all life on earth. In 2024 we are stepping it up.
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Shane MacGowan’s widow urges The Pogues and her 49,000 followers to help get ‘We Tried’ to Christmas No.1 spot
The recently widowed wife of Shane MacGowan is calling on The Pogues and her 49.000 followers on social media to back activist Louisie Harris' bid to get her climate song “We Tried”into this year's Christmas Number One slot.
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All we want for Christmas is… a climate number 1 hit!
Support Louise Harris to give the UK and the world its first ever Christmas no.1. Why? Because a climate no.1 is the best way to keep climate change in the public’s mind this Christmas.
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Local voices – The Haringey Community Assembly
The exciting beginnings of community building, sharing experience, finding our voices and realising our power are happening. Community assemblies have already taken place in Didsbury, Lincoln and Yorkshire to name but a few. Others are in the offing all over the country. On Saturday 25 November, London hosted its first, curated by XR Haringey and…
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XR UK on COP 28: ‘Our hopes were low – but COP went lower’
We never had high hopes for COP 28. So we are sadly unsurprised at the wholly inadequate outcome of the conference now that it’s done. According to the delegates, and most notably the oil tycoon Sultan Al Jaber, the world will ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels in energy systems. But who is…
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Protestors gather as judicial review decides the fate of Stonehenge
Extinction Rebellion activists joined Stonehenge Alliance, Sacred Earth Activism and other groups outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday (12 December) at the start of a three day hearing which will determine the fate of Stonehenge.
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Rebels are rising! November’s End of Month Action Day is bigger than ever
Thousands of rebels and their national and local allies hit the streets across the UK on the last Saturday of November in more than 36 separate actions and events for a show of growing excitement, creativity and solidarity in the face of an accelerating climate crisis and criminal government inaction. “Our End of Month Action…
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Extinction Rebellion UK position on COP 28
Before it has even begun, it is clear the COP process has been captured by the fossil fuel economy. We are unlikely to see the rapid, just and equitable phaseout of all fossil fuels coming out of this process.
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Mothers Rebellion Circles highlight World Children’s Day across UK
In response to the current and growing threat that climate breakdown presents to children around the globe, Mothers Rebellion gathered across the UK and in over 30 countries on six continents last Saturday to highlight World Children’s Day which commemorates the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In…
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Climate activists demand insurers Chubb and AIG rule out underwriting fossil fuel projects in Africa
A coalition of activists took a “RISKOMETER” to the doors of Chubb and AIG Insurers today (10th November) to demonstrate the hazards of insuring oil and gas projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) jeopardising company reputations, people and the planet.
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