extinction rebellion
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UK police seek to prosecute 1,130 Extinction Rebellion climate change protestors By Alice Summers
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. Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion and the Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
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… Continue reading
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An open letter to Extinction Rebellion
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… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Trees don’t grow on money – or why you don’t get to rebel against extinction By 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. Continue reading
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XR: Update #7 – To Parliament, and Beyond
The London Rebellion, after ten unbelievable days, will relinquish its final location on Thursday. We’ll be coming back to a different world. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion – The world has changed
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. Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion: A new stage for the climate change movement
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 … Continue reading
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Book Review: A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
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… Continue reading
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Why protesters should be wary of ‘12 years to climate breakdown’ rhetoric By Myles Allen
As the relevant lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, I spent several days last October, literally under a spotlight, explaining to delegates of the world’s governments what we could, and could not, say about how close we are to that level of warming. Continue reading
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Extinction Aversion By 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. Continue reading
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Police arrest over 1,000 climate change protesters in London By Robert Stevens
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. Continue reading
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The Rebel Alliance: Extinction Rebellion and a Green New Deal
Extinction Rebellion and AOC’s Green New Deal have made global headlines. Can their aims be aligned to prevent climate catastrophe? Guest host Aaron Bastani will be joined by journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot and economist Ann Pettifor. Continue reading
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UK home secretary demands climate change protesters face “full force of the law” By Laura Tiernan
Mass arrests of climate change protesters continued in London yesterday, after the Conservative government’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid demanded police “use the full force of the law.”More than 682 protesters have been arrested since Monday. Continue reading
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Update #5 – Police turn Pirates: The Pink Boat is Lost!
20 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion Photo: Lola Perrin, Oxford Circus Friday 19th Apr – Day 5 of International Rebellion It was a sad day for London’s Rebellion, as the beloved pink boat was lost amid a stormy sea of police- men and women. The neverending party was at last put on hold… for a few hours Continue reading
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Climate catastrophe and extinction rebellion By Paul Street
In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke against what he called “the triple evils that are interrelated”–economic inequality, racism, and militarism. If King were alive today, he’d be talking about the five evils that are interrelated, adding patriarchy and Ecocide, the destruction of livable ecology. He’d also be noting the dangerous… Continue reading
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Hundreds of peaceful climate change protesters arrested in UK By Paul Mitchell
Around 400 peaceful climate change protesters have been arrested in the UK over the past three days.According to the Metropolitan Police Service, 290 protesters at Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus and Parliament Square were taken into custody in London on Monday and Tuesday. Protests in the Scottish capital Edinburgh led to 29 arrests. Continue reading
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Extinction Rebellion protests block London bridges
Protesters have blocked off five major bridges in central London as part of a so-called “rebellion day”. Hundreds have gathered in central London to demand the government takes greater action on climate change. Continue reading
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