We are rising up. We have been for almost a year now. It’s hard to ignore, especially now when we are reaching out on a local scale for new rebels to join us. That was what we hoped to achieve when we took to Blackheath Common in our hundreds and enjoyed the light and hope…
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Tom Hardy, 65, is a semi-retired teacher and academic writer from Islington, London. He will be on trial in January: “Our parents’ generation feared enemy action. Our children’s generation fear inaction. And the actions that we have taken this year have been more vital than anything.” Last October, I woke up one fine morning, switched…
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When I tell people I was arrested I can see the shock on their faces
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Jane Baker, 64, a retired NHS speech therapist from Exeter read out this statment in mitigation when she pleaded guilty to “not moving when asked from Waterloo Bridge”. She was appearing at City of London Magistrates Court on 6th September before District Judge Rimmer.“I want to apologise for the necessary disruption caused at the April…
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During the April Rebellion, over 1,000 people were arrested. Teachers and tradesmen, doctors and carers, gardeners and psychotherapists, teenagers and grandparents: Ordinary people of every age from every walk of life, and from around the country helped sound the alarm on the climate and ecological crisis. Nearly all of those people are now being prosecuted…
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Article and pictures by Victor Chaix In the wake of the international Youth Strike for Climate on September 20th which brought millions of teenagers and adults alike to the streets in record-breaking numbers all over the world, a special Marche pour le Climat [Climate March] was organized in Paris and all over France…
Read full post30 Extinction Rebellion defendants are on trial this week across LondonSix trials are for public order offences during the April Rebellion; one trial is for offences under the Police ActThe Shell 7 will attend a preliminary hearing at Southwark Crown Court charged with criminal damage to the oil major’s HQ A further 50 people are expected…
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by Greenjacker The 2009 book The Spirit Level (published by Allen Lane), written by epidemiologists Richard G. Wilson and Kate Pickett, demonstrated the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”. These effects have factored heavily in the development of the climate and extinction…
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This is a video about the Turtle Skeleton Making workshop, to highlight species extinction.
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During the October Rebellion, an effective decision-making system is vital to our success. We encourage sites to use these systems, however, as they are autonomous, it is up to them. This system is meant to be clear and structured. However, we do not want following the system to prevent people from getting shit done. Holding…
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