Flying in the face of climate leadership: protesting private jets at Farnborough airport
Residents, campaigners, pollution experts and politicians gathered at Farnborough Airport to protest increases in private jet flights.
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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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‘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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Restore Nature Now! Activists and environmental groups come together for largest march for nature ever seen
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk Phone: +44(0)7756136396 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Donate Media Assets – Will be coming through once march gets underway, roughly 14:00 Direct action groups and major nature charities stand side by side to demand immediate action to restore nature. Activists from Extinction Rebellion…
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Extinction Rebellion blockades Lloyds of London
Dramatic scenes have engulfed the nerve centre of the UK’s insurance industry as hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists formed a Blockade For Life around the entire Lloyds of London building. XR’s 800-strong Carbon Bomb Defusal Squad are linking hands to form a 300m-long human chain around the iconic building, allowing staff to leave the building in the City of London but refusing to allow anyone to enter or re-enter.
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