Press
This is the official source for Extinction Rebellion UK news,
press releases, updates, images & videos.
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk
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‘Honour Their Sacrifice’: Extinction Rebellion Veteran Pays Respects at the Cenotaph with Banner Warning Climate Change Means War
Today at 8am, on Remembrance Day 2020, Extinction Rebellion hung a banner at the Cenotaph reading ‘Honour Their Sacrifice, Climate Change Means War’. After the banner was hung at the war memorial, British Army veteran and member of Extinction Rebellion, Donald Bell, paid his respects and observed two minutes silence. He then hung a wreath of poppies decorated with the words ‘climate change means war, act now’ on the Cenotaph.
SHELL = GUILTY: Extinction Rebellion send Shell a message on 25th anniversary of Ogoni 9 murders
Outside Shell HQ on London’s Southbank this morning, Extinction Rebellion held an action in solidarity with those lost, sending a message to the oil titan that their actions must not be forgotten. A small group erected a protest tripod at the building’s entrance where a single person dressed as a Shell executive sat on top. A noose was hung from the tripod and had oil poured down it to symbolise the brutality of the murders.
Dear Sir David Attenborough – We all have a part to play
Yesterday, Sunday 25th October, a small group from Extinction Rebellion delivered a letter to Sir David Attenborough. It came in response to recent comments he made to the BBC about Extinction Rebellion. The letter hopes to communicate the significance of nonviolent civil disobedience and its impact throughout history.
Extinction Rebellion challenges the Nobel Prize for Economics on climate and ecological failure
Extinction Rebellion has protested against the award of the Nobel Prize to two economists who specialise in game theory, claiming the discipline of mainstream economics is helping to destroy the planet. A number of international Extinction Rebellion groups dropped a banner on Stockholm’s Sveriges Riksbank yesterday that read: “Nobel: Stop legitimising climate failure”.
Amazon Rebellion stage theatrical protest outside Brazilian Embassy to say ‘Enough ecocide! Enough genocide!’
This Saturday October 10 Amazon Rebellion - with support from Extinction Rebellion groups around the world and Animal Rebellion - will gather outside the Brazilian Embassy in London from 2-5pm to say ‘Enough ecocide! Enough Genocide!’ [1]
Protestors scale the HS2 tunnel and block works to remind Boris Johnson to keep his pledge to protect biodiversity
Today, Friday October 9, Extinction Rebellion and Stop HS2 have responded to the Prime Minister's call to protect biodiversity by blocking HS2 worksites across the 140-mile stretch from London to Birmingham asking him to tell the truth and, in his own words 'act now without dither or delay'.
51 Extinction Rebellion members in court for Murdoch Printworks action
Plea hearings have begun today for 51 members of Extinction Rebellion who blockaded Murdoch’s Hertfordshire printworks last month, disrupting the distribution of newspapers including the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail.
Extinction Rebellion call on fashion to transform our culture of consumption and destruction
Extinction Rebellion activists, as part of Fashion Act Now, have composed an open letter, in video form, to the fashion industry which says the industry’s own words of radical change back to them - these are quotes spoken by leading industry figures during Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. The letter speaks to Fashion at a crossroad: do we carry on the way we are and destroy nature or reimagine fashion as a regenerative system that puts the planet first?
Statement on Zion Lights, Michael Shellenberger and the Breakthrough Institute
There have been a number of stories in the press in the last few weeks with criticisms about Extinction Rebellion by Zion Lights, UK director of the pro-nuclear lobby group Environmental Progress. It appears that Lights is engaged in a deliberate PR campaign to discredit Extinction Rebellion.
Statement on Printworks Action from participating rebels
The mainstream media has failed to report on the reasons for this protest, ignoring previous press releases. So we're putting our reasons here. Plainly and simply.
Politicians, QCs, economists, writers, artists, actors, musicians, comedians, business owners and even an Olympic Gold medalist condemn Government failure and pledge support for Extinction Rebellion.
More than one hundred cultural and political leaders have signed a letter condemning multiple Government failures and pledging support for the aims and successes of Extinction Rebellion.
According to YouGov poll, UK public think we do not have a free press
Extinction Rebellion has been accused of an “assault on the free press” for our action at the Broxbourne and Knowsley printworks on Friday. But how free is our “free press”? We decided to ask the UK public.