Three and a half years ago we started the biggest Civil Resistance movement in Britain since the Suffragettes. Some say it’s the most successful start-up in history, with groups in over 100 countries and on every continent – even Antarctica. The reality? We’ve only just got started. And in 2022…
Three XR members who stopped a DLR train at Shadwell station were lawfully exercising their right to peaceful protest, a jury has found. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 79 Father Martin Newell, 54, and Phil Kingston, 85, were all found not guilty of obstructing trains or carriages on the railway under the…
The trial is underway for three XR members who stopped a DLR train at Shadwell station in 2019. Phil Kingston, 85, Reverend Sue Parfitt, 79 and Father Martin Newell, 54 – all also members of Christian Climate Action – are charged with obstructing trains or carriages on the railway under…
2021: A Year in Protest As the year progressed, the pandemic and subsequent lockdown continued to make climate actions challenging, if not impossible. Gatherings of large groups became difficult or often illegal. Once-thriving local and regional meetings had become restricted largely to Zoom. But that did not stop people from…
Photo credit: Crispin Hughes XR UK is a movement of equality, liberation and emancipation. While XR UK will form alliances with a broad range of groups, many of whom will have different and distinct objectives, XR UK will not form alliances with any group which promotes an oppressive or discriminatory…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447918165046Photo credit: Helena SmithFacebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife Six XR protesters who stopped a Docklands Light Railway train at Canary Wharf in April 2019 have been acquitted after convincing a jury their behaviour was a lawful response to imminent climate breakdown and ecological collapse. The six – 85 year old grandad…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447918165046Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife The Court of Appeal has ruled today that James Brown, the blind Paralympian who climbed on top of an aeroplane in October 2019, be released on bail. James, who is serving a 12 month sentence at Wandsworth Prison, will be released later today or tomorrow morning. …
XR UK Newsletter December 2021 Welcome to the last UK Newsletter of 2021. Since we reformed the Newsletter team earlier this year we’ve managed to produce regular monthly issues covering stories and news from across the XR UK movement. We were particularly pleased to have put out eight special issues…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #AmazonCrime From 5am this morning, Extinction Rebellion has blocked a total of 15 Amazon fulfilment centres in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands on Black Friday, the major global discount day. In the UK, people from all…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447967651015Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | DonateMore images here: https://xrb.link/Lh1o4R On Wednesday 24th November, Extinction Rebellion staged a live art protest at Lates, the famous after-hours theme nights at the Science Museum. Starting at 8pm, Dozens of protestors dressed in black, wearing signs reading ‘Coal & Oil Out of Our Museum’ gathered in…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife**Watch our post-COP video here: https://xrb.link/Z06n7T7N** Extinction Rebellion UK responds to the failure of the COP process with plans to mobilise two million in the UK towards mass civil disobedience, with the first major campaign of civil resistance taking place in April 2022. The COP process…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife BREAKING: This afternoon, over a hundred people have sat down on Lambeth Bridge to break the National Highways super injunction in solidarity with the at least 34 people who have broken these injunctions so far, 9…
Beginning on Tuesday morning, nine people from Insulate Britain faced trial at the High Court for breaking the injunction on the M25. This morning, all nine were sentenced to prison for between two and six months, with the prosecution arguing for excessive costs to each individual, the final amount of…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife BREAKING: At 12pm today, Extinction Rebellion disrupted the Lord Mayor’s show in the City of London – the heart of fossil fuel investment in the UK – and several other locations along the parade. Riding a…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +44(0)7986671716Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateEmergency #COP26 #COP26Glasgow Extinction Rebellion and Climate Call-Up today sounded a “Climate Siren” in Glasgow, opposite the COP’s main centre where the high-level negotiations are concluding. Inspired by wartime emergency sirens, the Climate Siren is a spectacular and powerful symbol, designed to remind political leaders that we face an…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +44(0)7986671716Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife Following this morning’s collaboration and the global call of action from APIB (Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil) Extinction Rebellion is acting in solidarity to put a stop to investment in deforestation and land grabbing. The group held a protest in front of the St Vincent…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +44(0)7986671716Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife On the 16th of November, 9 nonviolent protesters will be sentenced up to two years in prison for breaking an injunction on protesting on the M25 with Insulate Britain. They are part of a group of over thirty who could face similar sentences over the coming…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: Chris 07715469373 (till 3:30pm on Friday)Maggie: 07838412422 or Ali: 07901916489Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife Sixth protest by Doctors for Extinction Rebellion against JP Morgan Chase in 2 months Fourth protest outside JP Morgan by climate groups during COP26 40 doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals protest against the world’sbiggest fossil…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked an arms fair at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern Worcestershire. Four gates have been blocked by protestors sitting on top of bamboo structures. Sixteen further protestors are locked into heavy concrete blocks in front of the entrances. Other…
Email: info@planb.earthPhone: 07795 316164Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ElormJustice #WeAreWitness #LawAsResistance A young climate and anti-colonial activist, Elorm Dade, aged 23 has been killed on the road in Accra, Ghana. Elorm was hit by a lorry while on a bicycle on 24 October and died at the scene. Given the context, friends and family…
Email: xrscotlandpress@gmail.comPhone: +44(0)7526684774Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife Thousands of protesters will march through Glasgow on Wednesday, 3 November to confront the threat of greenwashing. They will accuse COP26 sponsors of covering up their destructive habits with this PR trick while corrupting climate negotiations and endangering life on Earth. Extinction Rebellion, other environmental…
XR UK Newsletter November 2021 COP26 Time to Act 120 world leaders and 2,000 delegates have assembled for the 13-day UN-sponsored event in Glasgow. They will dine on a largely plant-based Scottish diet but accommodation may be hard to find. There are reports that some flats are being let for…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone:+447986671716 / +447561098449Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife UN analysis suggests COP26 has already failed in its primary goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5˚C In Glasgow, Extinction Rebellion will send the message that world leaders are guilty of crimes against humanity Extinction Rebellion groups from around the world to take action…
In the face of the climate and ecological emergency happening now, XR recognises the need for disruptive actions that highlight the severity of the crisis. Insulate Britain is playing a vital role in shifting the Overton Window around public awareness and urgent government action. The recent injunction which covers the…
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.ukPhone: +447918165046Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ExtinctionRebellion #RebelforLife The Court of Appeal has ruled today that James Brown, the blind Paralympian who climbed on top of an aeroplane in October 2019, be released on bail. James, who is serving a 12 month sentence at Wandsworth Prison, will be released later today or tomorrow morning. …
XR UK Newsletter December 2021 Welcome to the last UK Newsletter of 2021. Since we reformed the Newsletter team earlier this year we’ve managed to produce regular monthly issues covering stories and news from across the XR UK movement. We were particularly pleased to have put out eight special issues…
Email: info@planb.earthPhone: 07795 316164Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate#ElormJustice #WeAreWitness #LawAsResistance A young climate and anti-colonial activist, Elorm Dade, aged 23 has been killed on the road in Accra, Ghana. Elorm was hit by a lorry while on a bicycle on 24 October and died at the scene. Given the context, friends and family…
XR UK Newsletter November 2021 COP26 Time to Act 120 world leaders and 2,000 delegates have assembled for the 13-day UN-sponsored event in Glasgow. They will dine on a largely plant-based Scottish diet but accommodation may be hard to find. There are reports that some flats are being let for…