“We’re here outside COP25 in Madrid because we’re in a climate emergency, leaders of our world have had 25 years of working on this issue, and we’re still nowhere near where we need to be”…
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Filmed at the BBC HQ, London (5 December 2019) ‘Although flooding and coastal erosion means different things to different communities, this is an issue that we are all vulnerable to. The sea is rising, and so are we.’…
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Artist Jane Mutiny paints a mural for Extinction Rebellion as part of the ‘paint the streets’ action. Holywell Lane, Hackney – October 2019…
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Following Roger Hallam’s recent comments in Die Zeit and Der Spiegel concerning the Holocaust, a process, with experienced facilitation support, has been opened to look at what happened and decide upon the most suitable course of action. The process is being carried out in order to safeguard our Principles & Values and the Purpose, Mission…
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Following legal action from Extinction Rebellion, the Metropolitan Police has now accepted that Section 14 arrests were unlawful during both weeks of the October Rebellion. If you were arrested for breach of a Section 14 during the October Rebellion please read this briefing carefully. It sets out the next steps available to you including…
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“I know that the strikers here are striking in support of a climate and ecological emergency act, which actually makes good the promises that Governments have now made declaring ecological emergencies, declaring climate emergencies but they haven’t yet acted on them”, George Monbiot…
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Dearest rebels, it’s been a time of quiet but intense struggle on the front lines of the rebellion. Since Monday 18th November more than five hundred people have taken part in the Global Hunger Strike. From Israel to India, Ecuador to Australia, New Zealand to the United Kingdom, we have all been united in our…
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GLOBAL HUNGER STRIKE VIDEO from hunger strikers around the world made on Day 3 Barcelona, Spain. 18 November 2019. Day 1 of Global Hunger Strike Photo: Ilias i Chelo Barcelona, Spain. 22 November 2019. Day 5 of Global Hunger Strike Spain, 24 November. Jennifer, XR Barcelona, on day 6 Granada, Spain. 18 November 2019. Granada,…
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In this issue of Exploring XR, we hear from Arshak, a young violinist who began making headlines with his solo protests in Moscow’s Pushkin Square back in the Spring of 2019. Dubbed by some ‘Russia’s answer to Greta Thunberg’, the Fridays For Future (FFF) activist is currently awaiting his trial for his FFF strikes, scheduled…
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Mitigation statement delivered by Zoe Jones, 23, a charity worker from Bristol, when she pleaded guilty in October to breaching Section 14 of the Public Order Act during the April Rebellion. “I come here today in the interest of transparency and truth. Truthfully, I was a complete nerd at school. I loved to learn,…
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