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Extreme flooding 2024: XR UK’s position

January 16, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Recent UK floods have made it clear the authorities and their client media currently have no intention of saving us from the worst impacts of the climate and ecological crisis.

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Painting the streets to bring the message home

January 12, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Paint the Streets re-launched at the end of December 2023, and we've seen some brilliant XR style colour popping up all over the UK...

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Campaigners vow to fight on as court greenlights gas drilling in Jeremy Hunt’s Surrey constituency

January 11, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion climate activists, local residents and Waverley Borough Council have pledged to fight on after the Court of Appeal ruled this week against any further attempts to stop UK Oil and Gas (UKOG) from drilling for gas at the village of Dunsfold in Surrey.

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2024: Now we step it up

January 01, 2024 by Extinction Rebellion

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

December 20, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

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!

December 17, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

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

December 14, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

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…

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XR UK on COP 28: ‘Our hopes were low – but COP went lower’

December 14, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

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…

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Protestors gather as judicial review decides the fate of Stonehenge

December 13, 2023 by Extinction Rebellion

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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