13 June 2019 — WSWS
The London Metropolitan Police are pushing to prosecute every single one of the 1,130 protestors arrested during climate change demonstrations organised by Extinction Rebellion (XR) in April.
Tag: extinction rebellion
Extinction Rebellion and the Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
11 May 2019 — News from Nowhere
This is part 4 of a series of articles entitled ‘Astroturfing the way for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’.
Here are the links to the other parts:
0) Introduction: Some Inconvenient Truths about Extinction Rebellion and the Climate Mobilisation movement
1) Dr Gail Marie Bradbrook: Compassionate Revolutionary… for hire?
2) Political Charities and the Brave New World of Professional Activism
3) Green Gail and the Technocratic Industrialists: Citizens Online’s Digitopian Nightmare
Exactly a month on from the beginning of Extinction Rebellion’s demonstrations in London, the British Parliament has approved Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s motion to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ – being one of the group’s three demands. This comes two days after pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum declared its ‘union’ with Extinction Rebellion in the Guardian [1]. The rallying of the climate movement under the Labour party is an entirely predictable affair. And already we have cardboard cut-out [2] ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband declaring that “Politics needs to be on a war footing to deal with this enemy.”
An open letter to Extinction Rebellion
15 May 2019 — Red Pepper
“The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right.” By grassroots collective Wretched of The Earth.
This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to reflect on the narrative, strategies, tactics and demands of a reinvigorated climate movement in the UK. In this letter we articulate a foundational set of principles and demands that are rooted in justice and which we feel are crucial for the whole movement to consider as we continue constructing a response to the ‘climate emergency’.
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The London Climate Protests – Raising The Alarm
9 May 2019 — Media Lens
The feeling is often there at night, of course, in the wee small hours. But it can arise at almost any time – looking at someone we care about, listening to birdsong on an unusually warm spring morning, shopping.
It is like being trapped on a sinking ship, with the captain and crew refusing to admit that anything is wrong. The passengers are mostly oblivious, planning their journeys and lives ahead. Everything seems ‘normal’, but we know that everything will soon be at the bottom of the sea. Everything seems ordinary, familiar, permanent, but will soon be gone. It feels as if our happiness, our every moment spent with the people and places we love, is irradiated by the fear of impending climate collapse.
Trees don’t grow on money – or why you don’t get to rebel against extinction By Tim Hayward
29 April 2019 — Tim Hayward
Money doesn’t go on trees, and although people can make money out of trees, they cannot make trees out of money. This much may seem platitudinous, but it is worth keeping in mind.
XR: Update #7 – To Parliament, and Beyond
25 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion
by Douglas
We’ve created wonders. We’ve made history. We’re just getting started.
The London Rebellion, after ten unbelievable days, will relinquish its final location on Thursday. We’ll be coming back to a different world.
BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion – The world has changed
24 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion
Extinction Rebellion will voluntarily end the Marble Arch and Parliament Square blockades tomorrow (Thursday). There will be a closing ceremony at 5pm 25 April at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park.
Extinction Rebellion: A new stage for the climate change movement
23 April 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
It would be criminal if political criticisms keep the organized left from supporting and joining the Extinction Rebellion campaign.
Three articles from the British left …
Thousands of XR protesters disrupted central London for days.
Book Review: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
24 April 2019 — True Publica
Via LSE review of books: In A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil, Candice Delmas aims to foster understanding of resistance to injustice as a capacious concept that can include the possibility of lawful dissent, principled disobedience and revolution. This is a provocative and rewarding contribution to the literature, writes Suzanne Smith, that is particularly valuable for its attention to the question of the situational conditions of obligatory, potentially uncivil resistance.
Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric By Myles Allen
18 April 2019 — The Conversation
[I’m presenting this essay by the lead author of the IPCC report on climate change, not because I necessarily agree with his views but because it’s important for us to recognise and understand how science and politics collide. WB]
I was invited to speak to a group of teenagers on climate strike in Oxford recently. Like many scientists, I support the strikes, but also find them disturbing. Which I’m sure is the idea.
Extinction Aversion By Craig Murray
23 April 2019 — Craig Murray
Man made climate change has appeared to me for three decades to be sufficiently proven, and it has that cardinal virtue of a scientific hypothesis, you can see the things which it predicts will happen, come to pass before your eyes, like being uncomfortably hot in your Edinburgh flat on Easter Monday.
Police arrest over 1,000 climate change protesters in London By Robert Stevens
23 April 2019 — WSWS
More than 1,000 people have been arrested in London over the last seven days of climate change protests organised by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group.
Protesters continued to peacefully occupy public spaces in the capital, including Parliament Square, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch, despite mounting and provocative police arrests. On Saturday, 200 extra police from neighbouring forces were demanded by the Metropolitan Police to deal with the protesters. Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick declared, “Every day we have had over 1,000 officers—and now over 1,500 officers.”
