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Rainbow Rebellion takes to the streets of
Soho, London, to demand action on
climate change 🌈 🌏
Starting at 2.00pm, Saturday 18th June, Rainbow Rebellion took to the streets of Soho to demand action on climate change. The group occupied Old Compton Street with a giant rainbow dildo, followed by an afternoon of speeches, music, art, games, and cake, which is ongoing with plans into the evening.
Health Professionals glue on outside Downing Street calling for an end to fossil fuels
At 2.30pm today, 60 health professionals sat down in front of the gates outside Downing Street. Some members performed an unsuccessful ‘resuscitation’ of a 4 foot Earth on a stretcher. Following this 10 health professionals remained in front of the gates and ‘glued on’, whilst their colleagues held banners saying ‘For Health’s Sake Stop Financing Fossil Fuels’ and ‘Fossil Fuels are a Dead End’.
BREAKING: Climate groups bring Shell’s first UK AGM to a standstill
At 10.00am on Tuesday May 24th, over 80 people disrupted Shell's first UK AGM, held at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, with the aim of preventing the meeting from going ahead.
Charity Status of Climate Denialism Group a Joke say Extinction Rebellion and Green Coalition
This morning at 10am, a group of writers, scientists, activists and a baroness will gather in Tufton Street on the doorstep of the notorious climate-denial group The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). They will then proceed to the Charity Commission with an official complaint demanding that the group be stripped of its charity status and then filed the complaint with the Charity Commission.
‘JUSTICE FOR AFRICA’ – XR disrupts Schlumberger-sponsored Gala Dinner at Gordon Ramsay Restaurant
At 5pm this evening, Extinction Rebellion took action to prevent the Africa Energies Summit gala dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Heddon Street Kitchen in central London from going ahead. The gala dinner is sponsored by Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfields services provider.
Extinction Rebellion disrupt Africa Oil Conference in Mayfair
On Tuesday May 17 at around 8am, a coalition of groups including Extinction Rebellion Africa, Sustaining the Wild Coast, StopEACOP, Africans Rising, The Green Connection, Oceans Not Oil, Jubilee for Climate, 350.org and Greenpeace disrupted the Africa Energies Summit, a high-level conference attended by oil executives and African heads of state, who will also meet for "top-level networking".
XR celebrate success of Lloyd’s Blockade as two insurers cut ties with Canadian pipeline
On the 12th April 2022, more than 60 people from Extinction Rebellion blocked the entrances at Lloyd’s of London headquarters, preventing staff from entering the building. In the month since then it’s been announced that two insurers Aspen Insurance and Arch Insurance, both of which operate inside the Lloyd’s marketplace, have committed not to renew their insurance of the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Extinction Rebellion announces plans to bring millions onto the streets in September
In response to the Public Order Bill tabled in the Queen's Speech yesterday, Extinction Rebellion has announced plans to bring millions of people onto the streets from the 10th of September this year.
BREAKING: ‘End Fossil Fuels Now!’ Extinction Rebellion disrupt Barclays and Standard Chartered AGMs
At 11 AM on Wednesday May 4th, Members of Extinction Rebellion, and sister movement Money Rebellion, disrupted the annual general meetings of Barclays and Standard Chartered, demanding both banks stop financing fossil fuels.
‘End Fossil Fuels Now!’ Extinction Rebellion disrupts HSBC AGM
At around 11:30 AM on Friday April 29 members Money Rebellion, a group within Extinction Rebellion specifically targeting financial institutions, disrupted HSBC’s Annual General Meeting in central London to demand that the banking and financial services giant stop investing in new fossil fuel projects immediately.
Unify to Survive: Carnival for Climate Justice comes to Shepherd’s Bush Green
Spearheaded by Extinction Rebellion’s affinity group of BIPOC people, XR Unify, the family-friendly event will feature a march, live music, dancing, food stalls, arts activities and more from 12:30pm on 23rd April.
PICTURE STORY: XR experiments with new tactics during its Spring 2022 Rebellion – highlights with multimedia links
During its Spring Rebellion, XR has experimented with a decisive shift in tactics, with a move away from the use of large infrastructure and a renewed focus on people power and nonviolent civil resistance with innovative targeted actions including the shut-down of Lloyd’s of London, abseilers on Tower Bridge, and the infiltration of Shell