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Extinction Rebellion scale Guildhall to demand the City of London Stop the Harm
At 5:30pm on Sunday August 22, ahead of the Impossible Rebellion as our Opening Ceremony for two weeks of mass participation civil disobedience planned by Extinction Rebellion - 3 people scaled the portico of the Guildhall and dropped a banner that read ‘Co-Liberation / Freedom Together’.
Stephen Fry backs XR’s Impossible Rebellion as public pledge £100k in 24 hours
In a video released today, actor and comedian Stephen Fry backs Extinction Rebellion’s Impossible Rebellion: two weeks of mass civil disobedience which starts on Monday.
Extinction Rebellion locks down ExxonMobil oil terminal with demand to stop funding fossil fuels
Extinction Rebellion are protesting against major expansion plans at Fawley Refinery in Hampshire, the biggest oil refinery in the UK. Protestors are also making a new immediate demand ahead of the next major Rebellion beginning in London on Monday: Stop all new fossil fuel investment now.
XR to the Director of Public Prosecutions: Time to put right your mistakes
Extinction Rebellion's lawyers have written to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Max Hill, requesting confirmation that all past and ongoing prosecutions are being reassessed in light of the recent 'Ziegler' ruling and that any miscarriages of justice will be corrected.
IT’S HAPPENING NOW: Extinction Rebellion launch plans for UK Rebellion starting 23 August as latest IPCC report confirms the future we fear is already here
To coincide with the release of the 6th Assessment Report from the IPCC this morning, Extinction Rebellion UK has launched plans for 2 weeks of civil disobedience in London, beginning Monday 23 August.[1] Because the future we fear is already here and there’s nothing left to do now but act.
Six pregnant women bare their bumps at Piccadilly Circus, demanding an end to fossil fuels
On the morning of July 31 at Piccadilly Circus, six women stood with their six unborn children in their pregnant bare bellies, demanding an end to fossil fuels. The words ‘My Future’ were printed on their bumps and they held a giant ‘umbilical cord’, connected to a petrol pump and nozzle. Desperate for a cleaner world for their unborn children, they were drawing attention to Extinction Rebellion’s demand for an immediate ban on all new fossil fuel projects.
THIS SUNDAY: Extinction Rebellion join Reparations Rebellion to lock-down Brixton in call for reparations and planet repairs
From 10am on Sunday August 1 Extinction Rebellion will join in support of the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion Groundings to block Brixton Road from Max Roach Park to Windrush Square. The coalition of groups, including the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign, Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee, Extinction Rebellion Internationalist Solidarity Network (XRISN), the youth led Global Majority Vs UK Gov Campaign, as well as other student and youth movements, will occupy the area for the day demanding holistic reparations, including planet repairs.
Paralympian who scaled a plane guilty of public nuisance
Former Paralympian, James Brown, who climbed on top of an aircraft during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion was yesterday found guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. James, 56, who is registered blind, was charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.
Trial begins of Paralympian who climbed on top of a plane
The jury trial of former Paralympian James Brown, who climbed on top of an aeroplane during XR’s October 2019 Rebellion, begins this morning. James, 56, who is visually-impaired, is charged with public nuisance after live-streaming from the top of the plane at London City Airport and gluing himself on.
Not The Sun – Extinction Rebellion’s love letter to the tabloids
Extinction Rebellion create a bold new national tabloid newspaper that major printers were too scared of Rupert Murdoch to print
First XR defendant acquitted under Supreme Court’s ‘Ziegler’ ruling
One of the first XR defendants to be tried for Obstruction of the Highway following the landmark Ziegler Supreme Court ruling has been acquitted. District Judge Cohen ruled that Ben Benatt, an environmental scientist from Brighton, was acting reasonably and proportionately when he sat in the road during the September 2020 Rebellion and refused to move.
Statement on the conviction today of six members who took part in the blockade of Murdoch’s printworks in September 2020
As floods devastate Europe, another heat dome is building in the United States, and environmental defenders across the world are being silenced, XR will continue to demand that the press tell the truth about the climate and ecological emergency.