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Extinction Rebellion co-founder Dr Gail Bradbrook breaks window at Barclays Bank in act of civil disobedience
Dr Gail Bradbrook, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion broke the window of Barclays Bank in Stroud at around 6am this morning. The action was carried out carefully before opening hours in order to reduce any risk of harm. Dr Bradbrook is already awaiting trial for alleged criminal damage at the Department for Transport in October 2019. [1]
Extinction Rebellion UK statement on events in Bristol yesterday
The tensions of the past week around the Police, Crimes, Sentencing and Courts Bill have evoked a visceral response around the UK from a public who feel powerless. What we saw in Bristol yesterday was the effect of the Government overplaying its hand and attempting to outlaw the basic right to protest, threatening peaceful protestors with 10 year sentences at a time when we are faced with numerous intersecting crises.
#KillTheBill: Joint Statement on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill From XR, BLM local groups, RAAH and more
This is an open statement written by a coalition of UK organisations, groups & social movements of all ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, sexualities, faiths, abilities, ages and social standings, who have united to challenge the UK government. We are extremely troubled and disturbed by the newly proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in its current form. The deliberately vague language used would enable the police to act unilaterally with near unlimited discretion.
Extinction Rebellion UK statement on the HMICFRS report: You can make it a crime to care, but you won’t stop us caring
It should come as no surprise that this government has set out to deligitimise protestors when each protest pierces the bubble of complacency surrounding their climate record. This is the desperate act of a government in denial, to censor the voices of dissent rather than face the reality of the situation we are in.
Extinction Rebellion uses LinkedIn ads to ask former employees at Shell, HSBC and Exxon to Whistleblow for the Planet
Extinction Rebellion has launched a LinkedIn ad campaign targeting ex-employees from climate-damaging companies, inviting them to share insider information through its whistleblowing platform TruthTeller.Life.
‘This isn’t working – it’s time to ask for help’ – Extinction Rebellion UK statement on the Budget
Today’s Budget announcement shows that below the surface of vague commitments to “low-carbon investment” the UK Government is continuing on the current course we have been warned is so dangerous. Not only will the government cut £1bn from net-zero spending intended to help insulate homes as part of the ‘Green Homes Grant’ scheme, they are also allowing airports to expand, new coal mines to be built and investment to flow from the UK’s banking and financial sector to new fossil fuel projects.
THIS IS NOT WORKING: Extinction Rebellion statement on the UNFCCC report
In a week when we have heard from David Attenborough [2] and Boris Johnson [3] about the security risks of the climate crisis and the heightened possibility of war, there is no longer any argument that we urgently need change on an unprecedented scale. Yet the best world leaders have come up with are meagre pledges that get us nowhere near where we need to be.
Is this what you call ‘world-leading’? Government applies to send climate lawyer to prison in the year UK to host UN climate summit
On Friday February 12 the UK government applied to send Tim Crosland - a lawyer and director of climate litigation charity Plan B, who has previously worked for various governmental organisations including the National Crime Agency - to prison for breaching the Supreme Court’s embargo on the judgement to allow the expansion of Heathrow airport. If convicted Tim could face up to two years in prison.
Extinction Rebellion uses new activist tactics to invite insiders WFH to whistleblow on climate-damaging bosses
Extinction Rebellion launches whistleblowing platform TruthTeller.Life and calls on employees at climate-damaging companies to Whistleblow for the Planet
Extinction Rebellion to UK Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism, John Woodcock – ‘Why not give us a call?’
With the government's response to the pandemic coming under fire, and Boris Johnson being mocked by leading global scientists and politicians over his decision to open a new coal mine during a climate emergency, it seems appropriate today to launch an enquiry into the deaths caused by this government's policies today and in the future, rather than investigating nonviolent protesters for extremism.
‘Won’t somebody please think of the children?’ – Extinction Rebellion dumps soil outside HSE in London demanding a safe eviction for the Euston tunnellers
BREAKING: A small group from Extinction Rebellion have dumped soil outside the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) offices in London this morning, the UK government agency responsible for issuing the health and safety guidelines for the eviction at Euston Square Gardens.
‘Essential work should heal not harm’: Extinction Rebellion climb HS2 Ltd building to stand in solidarity with Euston tunnellers
BREAKING: At daybreak this morning, 4 people from Extinction Rebellion used ladders to climb onto the canopy of the HS2 Ltd offices on Eversholt Street in London to display a banner that read ‘Essential work should heal not harm’.