Climate chaos hits McKinsey & Co’s London HQ
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying McKinsey & Company’s London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit.
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Protestors blockade Farnborough Airport to protest plans to double private jet flights
Local residents and climate activists blocked Farnborough Airport this week to protest against the proposed expansion of the airport which will almost double the number of private jet flights to 70,000 a year, in a move which blatantly ignores the climate crisis.
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Climate activists occupy London HQ of law firm that supports Big Oil
Extinction Rebellion is today (4 December) occupying the City of London headquarters of international law firm A&O Shearman that is playing a leading role in oiling the legal wheels of the deadly fossil fuel machine setting our planet on fire.
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Campaigners blockade Surrey oil field to protest UK Oil & Gas flouting Supreme Court ruling
Today, nine Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to protest the company’s continued extraction of fossil fuels at the site in blatant contravention of a Supreme Court ruling made earlier this year.
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News from the Strategy Team
How on earth do you do strategy in a decentralised mass movement? Extinction Rebellion UK has grappled with this question since we began. Over the years strategy has been designed in a number of ways, with varying degrees of success. Each iteration has been an opportunity for reflection and learning. Learning from our experience and…
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COP 16: Extinction Rebellion and allies call for fair policies to protect the people and environment in the Global South from corporate greed
Extinction Rebellion is calling on concerned citizens, and environmental and social organisations to make their voices heard this year at COP 16 by signing its letter urging the UK delegation to put their weight behind four key environmental demands.
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‘Climate lie factory that poisons democracy’ occupied by Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying the central London offices of Policy Exchange, a climate crisis denial lobbyist funded by fossil fuel crooks that pretends to be a think tank. The protestors entered Policy Exchange’s notorious Westminster offices this morning (29 July) to demand an end to a campaign of lies and disinformation that has slowed climate action and led directly to long jail sentences for activists.
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XR rebel who stopped a planet-wrecking train walks free from court
A courageous Extinction Rebellion activist who stopped a freight train carrying 2,500 tonnes of wood pellets to the DRAX power station in Selby, Yorkshire, walked free from court today despite being found guilty of a criminal charge with a maximum two-year jail term.
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Activists scale East Sussex County Hall roof to demand council cuts ties with Big Oil
Extinction Rebellion South East activists have scaled the offices of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) in Lewes today (9 July) to demand the council stops investing local peoples' pensions in fossil fuels.
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‘Stop insuring new fossil fuels – or face direct action’
The UK’s top insurers were forced to face up to their lethal role in climate breakdown at their annual awards ceremony last night (Wednesday 3 July)) as Extinction Rebellion launched Insure Our Survival, a sustained campaign of nonviolent direct action demanding the insurance industry pull the plug on new oil, gas and coal ventures.
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