Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion: Nonviolently Hitting Our Stride

October 13, 2019 Extinction Rebellion. Resist! climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Nonviolent Action

As we approached the first weekend of the October Rebellion, it was humbling and inspiring to see that rebels showed no sign of slowing down. In fact, day 5 was marked by a series of exciting milestones: XR Dublin had their first arrests; XR Israel reached a new level of direct action, as rebels glued themselves to the National Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv; and Aussie rebels pioneered the delightful new concept of ‘Civil Disco-bedience’.

Extinction Rebellion Protests Stop Business As Usual Across The Planet

October 8, 2019 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Climate Change, climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion

The next climate crisis campaign of Extinction Rebellion has begun. Across the globe, activists blocked roads and staged demonstrations in big cities around the globe Monday, part of a wide-ranging series of protests demanding much more urgent action against climate change. Associated Press reported that "Demonstrators stopped traffic in European cities including Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam. In New York, activists smeared themselves — and emblems of Wall Street — in fake blood and lay in the street. In some cities, activists chained themselves to vehicles or pitched tent camps and vowed not to budge."

Disabled Rebels Call For ‘New Blood’ In Advance Of Extinction Rebellion Action

October 6, 2019 John Pring, Disability News Service. Resist! climate crisis, Disabilities, Extinction Rebellion

Together with a group called Deaf Rebels, they hope to play a key part in the UK actions, which will include a “central focus” on Westminster and will last two weeks from Monday (7 October). Bob Williams-Findlay, a leading figure in the Disabled Rebels group and a veteran of many non-violent direct action protests, has called for “new blood” to join the Extinction Rebellion (XR) Disabled Rebels and Deaf Rebels. He hopes that as many as 100 or even 150 Deaf and disabled people will take part in non-violent direct action in London. If that happens, the numbers taking part will be greater than those who took part in direct action in the campaign for accessible transport and in the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network in the 1980s and 1990s.

Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Tackles The Allegation She Isn’t Challenging Capitalism

September 9, 2019 By James Wright, Thecanary.co Strategize! Capitalism, Extinction Rebellion, Revisionism

The Canary sat down with Bradbrook after her speech at Shambala festival 2019 to explore this and other areas relevant to the movement. Her speech appeared to emphasise individual responsibility over governmental change. When she was challenged on this, Bradbrook said: We’re obviously about systemic change… I hope that’s obvious. We’re talking about citizens assemblies, we’re talking about debt refusal and changing the finance system and so on. When it comes to climate catastrophe, there are clearly major issues with the nexus of corporate government power.

Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Manchester

September 4, 2019 Sophie Halle-Richards, Manchester Evening News Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Police, Protests

"Any action to disrupt major transport links impacting businesses and communities will be totally unacceptable" Greater Manchester Police have urged climate change protesters to allow the city to get back to normal following this weekend's demonstration. Extinction Rebellion demonstrators have brought Deansgate to a standstill since Friday morning, to highlight the threat of climate change. Roads remained closed to all cars from St Mary's Gate to John Dalton Street as hundreds of protesters gathered for talks on sustainable living, climate chance and resistance.

Climate Activists Are Building Power, Declare We Have An Emergency

August 26, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, Wildfires

Wildfires are raging around the world, creating a negative feedback loop for the climate by releasing greenhouse gases and destroying the forests' capacity to sequester carbon. The United States is on track to be the biggest producer of oil and gas in the 2020's. According to Global Witness, seven of the top ten producers of new fossil fuels are states in the US, with Texas producing nearly four times more than Canada and almost ten times more than Russia. Democratic Party leadership is preventing a presidential debate on climate and is suppressing efforts to develop a Green New Deal. Scientists say that we don't have any time left to take action on the climate. We should have made changes decades ago. In response, climate activism is escalating. We speak with Greg Schwedock of the Extinction Rebellion in New York City about actions being planned this fall and the current political environment.

London Climate Change Protesters Daub Brazilian Embassy Blood Red

August 15, 2019 By Peter Nicholls and Estelle Shirbon, Reuters. Resist! Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion

London - Climate-change protesters threw red paint at the Brazilian embassy in London on Tuesday to demonstrate against damage to the Amazon rainforest and what they described as violence against indigenous tribes living there. Police arrested six activists from the Extinction Rebellion group after they glued themselves to the embassy windows and climbed onto a glass awning above the entrance. The protesters had splattered red paint and sprayed red handprints over the facade, along with slogans such as “No More Indigenous Blood” and “For The Wild”. Extinction Rebellion, which disrupted traffic in central London for several weeks earlier this year, said Tuesday’s protest aimed to challenge the Brazilian government over “state-sanctioned human rights abuses and ecocide”.

Sunday 11 August: Extinction Rebellion Successfully Saves The World… At Boomtown!

August 12, 2019 Staff, Rebellion.earth Resist! Extinction Rebellion, Reform

At 5pm on Sunday, Extinction Rebellion successfully overthrew the wealthy banking and oil elites at the close of this years Boomtown Festival. They stormed the palaces of the powerful, bolstered in numbers by countless newly initiated rebels. This horde of new recruits to the Rebellion will put the skills they have learned to good use in real life when Extinction Rebellion storms the Palace of Westminster in October. For those unfamiliar with the Boomtown interactive, immersive theatre experience, the festival provides punters with an exhilarating ongoing narrative.

Truth And Its Consequences:

August 9, 2019 Rupert Read, Medium.com Strategize! Climate Change, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, Reform

This pamphlet is an exercise in true-story-telling. It begins by underscoring the paramount importance of Extinction Rebellion’s (XR’s) Demand 1: for telling the truth underscores everything else. And telling the truth begins at home: we must tell the truth about how dire things are, hard though it is. Only if we do so might we motivate enough widespread buy-in to the truly radical changes that will be needed to prevent (or at least ameliorate) collapse. With truth-force, anything is possible. Without it, game-over.

Rebelling From A Nonviolent Heart

July 14, 2019 By Skeena Rathor, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Strategize! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion, Nonviolence

As a movement Extinction Rebellion has consciously used the power of nonviolent civil disobedience as an embodied practice of love asking for the needs of the Earth and all its living splendor to be safeguarded. The work of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and Marshall Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication or peaceful communication are nourishing reference points for Extinction Rebellion. Modern politics, religious dogma, and culture at large have bred a tremendously violent language. We have become trapped in moralistic judgments implying wrongness or badness on the part of people who don’t act in harmony with our values. With nonviolent language as an essential tool, we can accelerate the realization of our interconnectedness and our remembering of our instinct to protect and nurture what we love and that which loves and sustains us.

Extinction Rebellion Marches On The Capital

July 10, 2019 By Kaela Bamberger, Extinction Rebellion DC. Resist! climate crisis, Congress, Extinction Rebellion, Washington DC

Washington, DC, July 9 – Around 100 people representing the climate group Extinction Rebellion marched unpermitted for one mile from the Spirit of Justice Park to the east side of the Capitol grounds. The march took place after the crowd held a People’s Congress to pass the resolution calling for the declaration of a climate emergency. What started out as a mild presence by the Capitol Police quickly escalated as the activists left the park and headed toward the Capitol building. As the march turned onto Independence Avenue, the full extent of the police force gathered to address the protest came into view. A caravan of large police vans, including wagons meant to house arrested activists, lined the block of Independence and First Street SW to Independence & First Street SE (about a half mile long).

Extinction Rebellion’s Massive Summer Uprising

July 7, 2019 Catherine Early, The Ecologist. Resist! Activism, climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, United Kingdom (UK)

Climate activists Extinction Rebellion (XR) is urging supporters to sign up to action in five UK cities over the summer which will be “as large, if not larger” than its April protests in the capital. Action will take place in Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds and London from 15 July. Each site will see different action, for a different amount of time, but all will demand that the government acts immediately to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025, XR said. In June, the government signed a target to bring the UK economy to net zero by 2050 into law, following analysis by its advisors, the Committee on Climate Change, that the previous target of an 80% reduction could be beaten.

French Police Face Probe Over Tear Gas At Climate Protest

July 5, 2019 Deutsche Welle. Educate! Extinction Rebellion, France, Police abuse, Tear Gas

Police in France faced criticism on Monday after a video of officers spraying tear gas on climate protesters staging a sit-in on a bridge emerged online, prompting the French interior minister to call for an investigation. The protest over the French government's environment policies was held by members of the Extinction Rebellion group at the Pont de Sully bridge during sweltering heat on Friday. A video shared on Twitter and since widely broadcast on news channels shows a group of protesters sitting on the ground with their arms linked and heads bowed after they had refused orders to vacate the bridge. When they refuse to move, officers spray them with hand-held tear gas canisters, while the demonstrators try to protect their faces.

Climate Activists Disrupt The Advertising Industry Festival, Cannes Lions

July 3, 2019 Staff, Extinction Rebellion Resist! Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion

Climate Actions kicked off with a banner drop over the giant Cannes sign and a red carpet sit-in in front of the ‘Palace’. French rebels jumped the barrier to run up and block the stairs to the main, red-carpeted entrance. They sat, linked together and chanting messages of truth, before being carried off by police down the stairs. Even photographers and onlookers were not safe from the overbearing gendarmes, as rebels were arrested under dubious legality for ‘showing solidarity’ for the protest. The lines between legal and illegal seemed to blur with the police’s efforts to keep XR out of sight of the festival.

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