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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.
Extinction Rebellion reveals full programme for Upgrade Democracy camp at Windsor Castle
Extinction Rebellion supporters from groups across the United Kingdom will start gathering in Windsor Home Park on the morning of Friday 30 August for three days of creative, peaceful action to propose democratic renewal as the answer to the climate and nature emergencies.
‘Climate lie factory that poisons democracy’ occupied by Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying the central London offices of Policy Exchange, a climate crisis denial lobbyist funded by fossil fuel crooks that pretends to be a think tank. The protestors entered Policy Exchange’s notorious Westminster offices this morning (29 July) to demand an end to a campaign of lies and disinformation that has slowed climate action and led directly to long jail sentences for activists.
Secret location for Extinction Rebellion’s mass occupation Upgrade Democracy revealed
Extinction Rebellion can reveal today that Windsor Great Park in Berkshire - one of the monarch’s many residencies - will be the location of a three-day mass occupation called 'Upgrade Democracy', which will take place from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September. Our occupation at Windsor will not be targeting a person, it will target our broken system to advance our Third Demand that "The Government must create and be led by a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice."
Extinction Rebellion announces mass occupation as general election result called, declaring “we need to upgrade our democracy, not just change the government”
Extinction Rebellion has responded to the general election result by inviting people to join Upgrade Democracy - a three day mass occupation of a high-profile location from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September. As the result of the UK General Election is declared, our response is clear: it’s the system that needs to change, not the government.
Restore Nature Now! Activists and environmental groups come together for largest march for nature ever seen
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Landmark Supreme Court ruling slams brakes on all new fossil fuel projects
A landmark decision by the Supreme Court today (20 June) has raised major barriers to all new fossil fuel projects across England and Wales, including the proposed new coal mine in Cumbria and the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea.
Climate Activists Support Port Talbot Steel Workers for Worker-Led Green Transition
Extinction Rebellion (XR), Extinction Rebellion Cymru and other climate justice groups join the workers of the Tata steel plant in Port Talbot, south Wales,
Women who broke glass at JPMorgan sentenced after bank named top funder for fossil fuels
Just weeks after JPMorgan Chase was identified as by far the largest lender to fossil fuel companies in 2023, five women from Extinction Rebellion who “broke glass in case of climate emergency” at the bank’s European headquarters have been sentenced for what the bank claimed to be £306,000 worth of criminal damage. Meanwhile all defendants have lodged appeals and pressure mounts on Judge Silas Reid.