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Heydon Prowse ‘I’m joining XR’
Heydon Prowse is a British activist, journalist, satirist, director and comedian. He is best known for writing and performing in BBC Three’s Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised alongside Jolyon Rubinstein.
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Reframing Conflict with XR co-founder Stu Basden
XR Conflict Resilience System. More info here.
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Video: My World was Blown Apart and Brought Together at The Same Time
Ele Waters, 46, from Liskeard Cornwall runs a natural burial site and is building her own off-grid home in a permaculture community. She is pleading not guilty after being arrested in April. “I’ve been a permaculturist now for 26 years, and we’ve planted 21,000 trees, we set up a natural burial site, we live off-grid,…
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Cecily Bedner: This Was An Act of Self Defence
Cecily Bedner, 20, a film and digital arts student from Plymouth, told the court she broke the law for her sister, aged five. This is the mitigation statement she read out in court. “I’m not here to tell you that I wasn’t there or I didn’t break the law. What I will tell you is that…
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Janet Young: How Could I Stand By and Do Nothing
Janet Young, a 72-year old retired social worker and grandmother from Devon read out this statement at her plea hearing in August. She was arrested on Waterloo Bridge on the first Tuesday, 16 April. “I am pleading guilty for financial and emotional reasons. I accept that I did not comply with a regulation, imposed in…
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Andrew Peel: I Told the Truth and Acted As Though the Truth is Real
Andrew Peel, 59, a delivery driver from Norwich, read out this statement at his plea hearing on Friday. His tipping point, he says, was watching the action on the London bridges in November and seeing a banner that said “For My Children”. “Following a serious health issue in 2014 in which I almost lost my…
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Statement from Extinction Rebellion Liberation
Extinction Rebellion Liberation (XR Liberation) is a group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who have assembled with the goal of addressing oppression within XR, and using the platform XR has created to work with those addressing oppression in wider society. XR Liberation is among a number of groups in Extinction Rebellion each addressing different areas of these very complex issues.
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Essential Rebellion Info – Ready or Not, here we come!
(Sign up here!) Illustration by Janice Chang The UK’s rebellion in April launched Extinction Rebellion onto the world stage. We brought London to a halt, captured imaginations, and put humanity’s survival on the national agenda. Now we’re back – with more experience, more resources, and five times the numbers. If we’re to…
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