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Climate chaos hits McKinsey & Co’s London HQ
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying McKinsey & Company’s London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit.
City of London insurance CEOs targeted for climate crimes in a second day of action
For a second day running, Extinction Rebellion (XR UK) protesters have targeted insurance companies in the City of London, asking ‘Who are the real criminals?’ [1] ahead of this afternoon’s appeal for the ‘Lord Walney 16’ nonviolent activists at the High Court. This morning (30th January) scores of protesters arrived from 8am to occupy the offices of Marsh McLennan, and target the CEOs and offices of Lloyd’s of London, Howden, Willis Towers Watson, AXA, and Hiscox - as staff arrived for work.
City of London insurance conference disrupted by Extinction Rebellion and students
Climate activists have this morning disrupted an insurance industry conference held at Howden's offices by interrupting proceedings, singing, theatre, occupying the entrance hall and blowing whistles.
Climate activists occupy London HQ of law firm that supports Big Oil
Extinction Rebellion is today (4 December) occupying the City of London headquarters of international law firm A&O Shearman that is playing a leading role in oiling the legal wheels of the deadly fossil fuel machine setting our planet on fire.
Extinction Rebellion supporters who protested pipeline constructors sentenced as 15 Ugandan students sent to maximum security prison
Extinction Rebellion activists The Worley Three have been given 320 hours of community service today for causing £6,000 in “damages” for their peaceful protest at the offices of multinational corporation Worley. The sentencing comes two days after 15 university students in Uganda were remanded to a maximum security prison for peacefully protesting the pipeline outside the Ugandan Parliament. Meanwhile the beleaguered project has run into fresh funding challenges.
‘They predict a riot’ Extinction Rebellion warn fossil fuel insurers could spark social unrest
A protestor was arrested as Extinction Rebellion scaled and occupied insurance buildings and unleashed the Four Insurers of the Apocalypse to warn of looming social collapse and unrest in a third day of actions targeting insurers in the City of London.
After the floods – hunger and wrecked lives
Six protestors arrested as insurer’s office is chalk-sprayed, the famous Gherkin building is occupied and insurance CEOs are branded climate criminals by a video van tour of the City of London as day two of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival week hits the streets.
The floods are here!
A pink boat sailed through the City of London as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists occupied world-famous buildings, staged climate crime scenes and mass die-ins and marched to demand insurers stop insuring climate breakdown. The actions kicked off a week of mass protests in the capital and across the UK calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuel criminals who are heating up the planet and flooding our homes.
Insurers given 14 days to dump fossil fuel criminals
Extinction Rebellion announces its Insure Our Survival campaign by issuing an ultimatum letter to insurance industry bosses as the movement prepares a week of protests and actions in London and across the UK. Senior executives have been warned: “Make a pledge to get out of new oil, coal and gas – or face actions and protests.”
Campaigners blockade Surrey oil field to protest UK Oil & Gas flouting Supreme Court ruling
Today, nine Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to protest the company’s continued extraction of fossil fuels at the site in blatant contravention of a Supreme Court ruling made earlier this year.
Climate Protectors Found Guilty While EACOP Pipeline Engineers Walk Free
People who took action in defence of life, known as the “Worley Three,” have been found guilty of causing £6,000 in “damages” for their peaceful protest at the offices of multinational corporation Worley. Sentencing will take place on 14th November.
‘Disproportionate’ prosecution of climate protectors in London as crackdown on protesters ramps up in Uganda
A five-day Crown Court trial begins next week against three XR activists for a principled protest that allegedly caused £6,020 in ‘damages’. The protest involved the use of washable, fake oil and chalk spray on the offices of petro-engineering multinational firm Worley in Brentford, Middlesex. The protesters demanded the company sever ties with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project that has already been responsible for gross human rights abuses and threatens to cause irreversible climate change if completed. The trial comes after 47 student protesters were pre-emptively arrested in Uganda before they were able to deliver a petition against the pipeline to parliament - just the latest incident in an ongoing, brutal and escalating crackdown against ordinary people resisting the devastating project.