People’s Pickets
The Big One will have 16 pickets on Friday 21st and Monday 24th April.
Why People’s Pickets?
Parliament declared a climate emergency four years ago but the Earth keeps getting hotter quicker and the UK government is failing to meet its own targets. They are failing all of us. That’s why at The Big One we are calling for a People’s Picket at every government department in Westminster, led by over 100 supporter organisations, community groups and XR local groups
Pickets won’t block access and exit to the government departments for workers or visitors.
Locations
Pickets will be at Government buildings on Friday and Monday. Locations are shown on the map below. Google Maps pins can be found here.
The People’s Pickets
The People’s Pickets run from 7am on Monday 24th. All are welcome to any picket – come as an individual or join one of the many groups listed below.
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Participating Groups
- Champions for Earth
- Culture Declares
- XR Media Tell the Truth
- XR Wotton Under Edge
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 08:00 – 12:00
Monday 24th April
- 08:00 – 09:00
Picketing – greeting DCMS workers
- 10:15 – 11:00
Media Tell The Truth: How can mainstream media play a full role in addressing the climate and ecological emergency? Speakers: Rachel Donald, Melinda Janki, Doreen Cunningham, Lautaro Illayux, Jon Fuller, Donnachadh McCarthy
- 11:00 – 11:10
Natalie Bennett (Green Party)
- Department for Education
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Participating Groups
- Birkbeck Climate Action Network
- Education Climate Coalition
- XR Educators
- XR Families
- XR Oxford
- XR Youth
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 08:00 – 15:00
Monday 24th April
- 08:00 – 10:00“Welcome to Work” small picket
- 08:00 – 15:00Alternative curriculum, run by XR Oxford
- 13:30 – 13:45Speech from Nadia Whittome, MP
- 14:00 – 15:00Be The Change team
- Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
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Participating Groups
- Anxious Unicorns
- Biofuelwatch
- Campaign against Climate Change trade union group
- Climate Reality
- Don’t Pay UK
- Fossil Free London
- Fuel Poverty Action
- Just Stop Oil
- Stop Rosebank
- Stop the Burn
- Tipping Point
- Women’s Climate Strike
- XR Cymru
- XR Grandparents & Elders
- XR Highland & Islands and Moray
- XR Lewes and Seaford
- XR Lewisham
- XR Scientists
- XR Wandsworth
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 07:00 – 13:00
Monday 24th April
- 07:00 – 08:30
Open mic
- 08:30 – 09:30
XR Rhythms
- 09:30 – 09:40
Songs
- 09:45 – 10:00
Speech – Why we must stop Rosebank (Lauren MacDonald)
- 10:00 – 10:10
Spoken word and humour – Money is as innocent as the gun by Anxious Unicorns
- 10:10 – 10:25
The Renew(ables) Fashion Show by XR Lewisham
- 10:25 – 10:40
Music and poetry
- 10:40 – 10:55
Fuel Poverty in the UK (Fuel Poverty Action)
- 10:55 – 11:05
Speech-A fossil free London (Fossil Free London)
- 11:05 – 11:20
Theatre: No New Coal
- 11:20 – 11:30
Songs (Kimwei)
- 11:30 – 11:45
Speech by Fossil Free Parliament
- 12:00 – 12:15
Speech: End the burn (UKWIN)
- 12:15 – 13:00
Ceremonial handing in of letter
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Participating Groups
- Animal Rising
- Dirty Water
- Kingston HIVE
- Plastics Rebellion
- Waterways Rebellion
- Whale and Dolphin Conservation
- XR Camden
- XR Cornwall Kernow Stragglers
- XR Derby/Derby Climate Coalition
- XR Eastbourne Solidarity
- XR Epsom & Ewell
- XR Exeter
- XR Farmers
- XR Forest of Dean
- XR Hastings and St Leonard’s
- XR Kingston
- XR Macclesfield
- XR Marches
- XR North Cornwall TWIGS
- XR Portishead and Pill
- XR Richmond
- XR Scientists
- XR Shrewsbury
- XR South Brent
- XR St Davids
- XR Stratford upon Avon
- XR Suffolk Sunrise
- XR Taunton
- XR Totnes and Area
- XR Walkers
- XR Wrexham
- XR Wimborne
- XR Worcestershire
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 07:00 – 15:15
Monday 24th April
- 11:00 – 12:00 – Speeches from XR Scientists and the Dirty Water campaign
- 12:00 – 13:00 – Street performances by Green Spirits and XR Marches, choir. Speech from DEFRA PCS Union member
- 13:00 – 14:00 – Speeches from Green Party’s Baroness Jenny Jones and Caroline Lucas.
- 13:45 – 15:15 – Plastic Bingo with Plastics Rebellion
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 07:00 – 16:30
Monday 24th April
- 16:00 – Housing Rebellion Rally (then to Parliament for the Finale – Picket Parliament)
Speakers: Sian Berry, Green Party London assembly member; Ciaran Malik, Architect Climate Action Network; Andrea Gilbert, Housing Rebellion; and other resident campaigners from Radical Housing Network, Homes for All and Social Housing Action Campaign
- 16:00 – Housing Rebellion Rally (then to Parliament for the Finale – Picket Parliament)
- Department for Transport
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Participating Groups
- HS2Rebellion
- South Yorkshire Climate Alliance
- Stop Airport Expansion
- Stop HS2
- Stop the Wensum Link
- XR Bournemouth and Poole Green Groups
- XR Bristol
- XR Derby/Derby Climate Coalition
- XR Hackney
- XR Leeds
- XR Norwich
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 07:00 – 13:45
Monday 24th April
- 07:00 – 09:00Hackney & Tower Hamlet Clean Air for All Alliance
- 12:00 – 13:00Imagined Future – Press conference
- 13:00 – 13:15Norwich and the Roads Campaign – Stop the Arundel bypass.
- 13:15 – 13:30Speech by Andrew Boswell on DfT roads programme, National Policy Statement (NPS) and his legal case against DfT
- 13.30 – 13:45Discobedience dancing – Driller
- Department of Health and Social Care
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Participating Groups
- Global Justice Now
- Planetary Health Hub
- XR Leicester
- XR Peterborough
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 09:00 – 12:00
Monday 24th April
- 09:00 – 09:10
Health impacts of climate change (Hayley, Health for XR)
- 09:10 – 09:20
Women’s Health in climate change (Alice, Health for XR)
- 09:20-09:30
Dementia and link to air pollution and heat waves (Maggie, Health for XR)
- 09:30 – 09:45
Cardiac health in the context of climate change (Sarah, Health for XR)
- 09:45 – 10:00
Mental health and nature connection (Steve, Health for XR)
- 10:00 – 10:15
Primary care and climate change (Mike Tomson, Greener practice)
- 10:15 – 10:30
Gastroenterology health, hospitals and climate change (Will, Health for XR)
- 10:30 – 10:45
Child protection in a climate changing world (Kitty, Health for XR)
- 10:45 – 11:00
Our broken food system (Buvana, Plant Based Health)
- 11:00 – 11:15
Proportionality in healthcare – keeping a global context (Cliff, Health for XR)
- 11:15 – 11:30
Speech from Matt Lee, DAUK
- 11:30 – 11:45
Speech by Natalie Benett, Green Party
- 11:45 – 12:00
Car dependance (ana Moore, Green at Barts)
- HM Treasury
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Participating Groups
- Axe Drax
- Biofuelwatch
- Debt for Climate
- Debt Justice
- Fuel Poverty Action
- Money Rebellion
- Stop Burning Trees Coalition
- XR Salisbury
- Wanstead Climate Action
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 07:00 – 14:30
Friday 24th April
- 07:00 – 09:00
Leafleting staff
- 09:30 – 10:00
Picket opening speech
- 10:00 – 11:00
Open mic session and XR Rhythms - 11:00 – 11:05
Speech by Jenny Jones (Green Party) - 11.30 – 11.35
Speech by Professor Molly Scot Cato - 11:45 – 14:00
Climate Casino - 12:00 – 12.05
Speech by Dottie Guerrero - 13:00 – 13:05
Speech by Asad Rehman - 14:00
Delivery of demand to Treasury - 14:30 – 16:00
Open mic session 4 - 14:00 – 14:30
Discobedience dancing
- Home Office
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Participating Groups
- RS21 (Revolutionary Socialism in the Twenty First Century)
- XR Cambridge
- XR Cardigan + West Wales Climate Coalition
- XR Chelmsford
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 08:00 – 17:00
Monday 24th April
- 08:00 – 10:00
Die in and leafleting
- 10:00 – 10:30
Organising against the border regime (RS21)
- 10:30 – 10.45
Speech from Natalie Bennett (Green Party)
- 11:00 – 11:30
Care 4 Calais
- 11:30 – 12:00
Creating chalk hands to represent refugee deaths. Die in and leafleting
- 12:00 – 14:00
Die in and leafleting
- 14:30 – 15:00
Drawing your dreams for the planet
- 15:30 – 16:00 Mindfulness
- 16:00 – 16:10
We’re doing this for you
- 16:30 – 17:00
Reading
- Ministry of Defence
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Participating Groups
- XRPEACE
- Aldermarston Women’s Peace Camp
- CND
- CND Cymru
- Edinburgh Peace and Justice
- Forces Watch
- Greenham Women for Life on Earth
- Iona Community
- Movement Against War
- Nipponzan Myohoji
- Nukewatch UK
- Palestine Action
- Scottish CND
- Stop the War
- Trident Ploughshares
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
- War Resisters International
- XR Against Arms
- XR Marches
All welcome!
Programme Highlights
Picket runs: 08:00 – 14:15
Monday 24th April
- 10:30
Workshop: Anti-racist resistance to policing – with Adam Elliott Cooper.
- 12:30 – 13:15
Workshop: Links between nuclear weapons and climate change
- 13:15 – 14:15
Workshop: Barclays: Don’t Bank on Apartheid campaign, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Get involved
All are welcome to any picket – come as individual or find out more about what community groups are doing at The Big One.
Pickets are active from 7am on Monday 24th.
Join the People’s Picket. Unite to Survive.