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After the floods – hunger and wrecked lives

Six protestors arrested as insurer’s office is chalk-sprayed, the famous Gherkin building is occupied and insurance CEOs are branded climate criminals by a video van tour of the City of London as day two of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival week hits the streets.

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The floods are here!

A pink boat sailed through the City of London as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists occupied world-famous buildings, staged climate crime scenes and mass die-ins and marched to demand insurers stop insuring climate breakdown. The actions kicked off a week of mass protests in the capital and across the UK calling on the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuel criminals who are heating up the planet and flooding our homes.

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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.”

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XRUK statement on the riots

The rioting and looting scarring our streets and terrorising some of our most vulnerable communities has shocked us all to the core. Extinction Rebellion UK is devastated by these callous acts of violence and we are all left fearful for the wellbeing and safety of our friends.     XRUK stands in solidarity with all people affected…

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“Stop the New Scramble for Africa!”

>> Photos of the protest at the Africa Energies Summit Extinction Rebellion and allies protest at global energy conference as fossil fuel crooks gather in London to plan the plunder of Africa’s oil and gas resources Fossil fuel bosses and government officials from the UK and countries across Africa were confronted by scores of…

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House of Commons lobby targeted by Extinction Rebellion to protest against UK’s role in violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

What are the dangerous and shadowy links between the UK Government’s Rwanda flights and a heartbreaking war over resources in Africa that is also fuelling the climate crisis and destroying vital ecosystems? Today Extinction Rebellion activists answered that complex question as they staged a protest in the House of Commons pretending to hold guns to their heads and unfurling a banner saying: ‘STOP FUNDING RWANDA WAR IN D.R. CONGO.’

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XR UK on COP 28: ‘Our hopes were low – but COP went lower’

We never had high hopes for COP 28. So we are sadly unsurprised at the wholly inadequate outcome of the conference now that it’s done. According to the delegates, and most notably the oil tycoon Sultan Al Jaber, the world will ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels in energy systems. But who is…

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