June 2025 - Extinction Rebellion UK
Climate activists occupy WPP’s HQ to demand global ad giant cuts its ties to Big Oil| Extinction Rebellion UK
Press contact: Dorothea Hackman 07301299930 saveeustontrees@gmail.com First Photos and Video: https://t.me/+7Owp8nddDCJhNzY0 Press selection: https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-news/search?collectionIds=68aed8b34643ff06f47e6e60 From 10am this morning, Extinction Rebellion will march in a procession from Tower Bridge, drumming in mourning for the pollution of the Thames. An enormous banner will be dropped demanding “STOP POLLUTING OUR RIVERS” as Extinction Rebellion’s ...| Extinction Rebellion UK
Climate activists occupy WPP’s HQ to demand global ad giant cuts its ties to Big Oil| Extinction Rebellion UK
Contact: 07484750955XR UK press team press@extinctionrebellion.uk Starting this Sunday the 24th August to the 24th September, Extinction Rebellion’s Dirty Water Campaign is launching the World Water Wedding with a range of actions intended for people to pledge their troth to protect rivers and water bodies across the country. Actions will range from hand-fastings and other commitment ceremonies […] The post Meet the activists marrying their local river as part of Extinction Rebellion...| Extinction Rebellion UK
Picnic with Extinction Rebellion and friends. Saturday, August 16th 2025 at 12 md. St James Park, London. An afternoon of fun , friends and frolics celebrating our community and friendships. All welcome. Bring cake! The post Picnic in the Park appeared first on Extinction Rebellion UK.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Press contacts: Shana 07546 166787 | XR UK press team press@extinctionrebellion.uk Photos: https://drive.proton.me/urls/WFVCDS5XJR#OEow1XVNSOdf Early on Wednesday 23rd of July, five scientists occupied the lobby of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), part of the Bank of England. Five scientists remained in the PRA’s lobby from 8am until 9am, during the morning arrival of employees, demanding capital requirements on […] The post Scientists for XR occupy the Bank of England appeare...| Extinction Rebellion UK
Press contacts: Dorothea Hackman 07710 269195 | XR UK press team 07756136396 BREAKING PHOTOS | PERMANENT ARCHIVE Extinction Rebellion rebels target AIG as part of a national wave of Insure Our Survival actions against insurance companies fanning the flames of climate risk. At 12 noon today, July 16th, 2025, protesters were at the offices of […] The post Rebels target insurance HQ in solidarity with detained Ugandan protesters appeared first on Extinction Rebellion UK.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Early images “Insuring Disaster, Not Survival” LONDON 9th July — Climate activists with the Insure Our Survival campaign disrupted the “Oscars of the insurance industry” British Insurance Awards at the Royal Albert Hall tonight, calling out the industry for profiting from climate chaos and genocide in Gaza, while pushing ordinary people to the brink. Two […] The post Climate Activists Detained at the “Oscars of the Insurance Industry” appeared first on Extinction Rebellion UK.| Extinction Rebellion UK
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This July marks one official year of the Insure Our Survival Campaign and we’re going to be celebrating in style! Throughout a Wave of Action from 2nd-14th July, the Insure Our Survival campaign is turning up the pressure on the fossil fuel insurers who are enabling climate breakdown. It’s time to push harder – to cancel carbon bombs, stop ecocide, and confront climate injustice. The post Insure Our Survival Week of Action appeared first on Extinction Rebellion UK.| Extinction Rebellion UK
For immediate release. This July, the Insure Our Survival (IOS) campaign marks one powerful year of mobilisation. Over the past 12 months, IOS has coordinated more than 150 actions, targeting 27 insurance firms in over 40 towns and cities. Now, the momentum is accelerating. From 2-14 July, a UK-wide Wave of Action will ramp up pressure on the insurers enabling climate destruction. Across the country, activists will expose the “dirty insurers” underwriting and brokering some of the world...| Extinction Rebellion UK
The Hounslow Mela, which took place on the 21st June, is a Desi festival which celebrates South Asian culture. Mela comes from the Sanskrit a place 'to gather' and was a fantastic place for XR Unify to engage with the diaspora on climate issues while bringing the community together through art. The post XR Unify celebrate with the Desi community at Hounslow Mela appeared first on Extinction Rebellion UK.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Early Media: 20230625 CTT Early Media share folder Picture Link: https://show.pics.io/xr-global-media-breaking-news/search?collectionIds=685a7d433ec00754ba953d8e Media Contact: Carol 07791 737093 For immediate release The activists, from climate campaign group Cut The Ties to Fossil Fuels, also call on Government to ban fossil fuel advertising Today (25 June), climate activists have taken over the headquarters of advertising agency group WPP, […]| Extinction Rebellion UK
We are facing an unprecedented global climate emergency. The government has failed to protect us. To survive, it's going to take everything we've got.| Extinction Rebellion UK
UK public: Politicians not doing enough to protect our life support systems| Extinction Rebellion UK
What has conflict got to do with the climate and ecological crisis?| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Free London, War on Want, Christian Climate Action, Rainforest Foundation, StopEACOP UK, and others were joined by Senegalese drummers and videos from Extinction Rebellion Democratic Republic of Congo outside the Africa Energy Summit in London today.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Delegates at Europe’s largest insurance brokers conference were greeted today at Manchester Central by environmental groups demanding the industry stops backing fossil fuel projects.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion Cambridge and others are holding a mock funeral for the 1.5°C target international policymakers signed up to in the Paris Agreement of 2015. A spokesperson said: "Crossing 1.5°C for a whole calendar year is a wake up call for the world. If we want to avoid crossing further tipping points we need a complete transformation of society."| Extinction Rebellion UK
Five people go on trial on Monday 12 May at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the headquarters of News UK (formerly News International) in July 2022. Two carefully broke windows while the other three flyposted newspaper articles. The Sun, The Times and other News UK outlets are suppressing facts about the climate crisis and peddling climate delayism. We need an urgent media revolution so people are told the truth about the climate emergency leading to m...| Extinction Rebellion UK
Today sees the free-to-view release of Plan Z: From Lab Coats to Handcuffs, a short but urgent film in which scientists share what compelled them to direct action —and why they are willing to risk their liberty to fight for change. Watch now on YouTube.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Find upcoming environmental protest actions, events and training across the UK to tackle the climate crisis. Explore the map and check out XR resources and training.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Want to get involved with environmental movement Extinction Rebellion's campaigns and protests? Find a group near you and see how your skills can help.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Round up of actions targeting the insurance companies during XR's Insurance Week of Actions. Reaching out to the insurance industry to stop insuring fossil fuels. From Brighton to Leicester, Bristol to Glasgow, Chipping Norton to Bridgend.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Activists urge customers to switch their accounts to pressure Barclays to stop mega-funding fossil fuels projects and companies expanding fossil fuel extraction| Extinction Rebellion UK
Oily Money OUT! Greta Thunberg joins climate protestors in oil Summit blockade| Extinction Rebellion UK
Campaigners blockade Surrey oil field to protest UK Oil & Gas flouting Supreme Court ruling| Extinction Rebellion UK
The Supreme Court will rule this Thursday (20 June) on a case brought by climate activist Sarah Finch which, if successful, will see major restrictions placed on all new fossil fuel projects across England and Wales, including the proposed new coal mine in Cumbria and development of the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Today, nine Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to protest the company’s continued extraction of fossil fuels at the site in blatant contravention of a Supreme Court ruling made earlier this year.| Extinction Rebellion UK
After the floods – hunger and wrecked lives| Extinction Rebellion UK
We know the world is spinning towards catastrophe. We know it’s time to act. If we are going to avoid disaster, we will have to make difficult choices for the long term, collaboratively, in a fair way that isn’t biased towards a powerful or wealthy minority. We need to modernise the political system so that it can deal with the problems of today's world, and work better for everyday people. To do that it has to include everyday people.That’s why we need a Citizens’ Assembly on Climat...| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion activists are occupying the central London offices of Policy Exchange, a climate crisis denial lobbyist funded by fossil fuel crooks that pretends to be a think tank. The protestors entered Policy Exchange’s notorious Westminster offices this morning (29 July) to demand an end to a campaign of lies and disinformation that has slowed climate action and led directly to long jail sentences for activists.| Extinction Rebellion UK
‘Climate lie factory that poisons democracy’ occupied by Extinction Rebellion| Extinction Rebellion UK
‘Climate lie factory that poisons democracy’ occupied by Extinction Rebellion| Extinction Rebellion UK
Campaigners blockade Surrey oil field to protest UK Oil & Gas flouting Supreme Court ruling| Extinction Rebellion UK
XR rebel who stopped a planet-wrecking train walks free from court| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion South East activists have scaled the offices of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) in Lewes today (9 July) to demand the council stops investing local peoples' pensions in fossil fuels.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Today members of Extinction Rebellion London and Money Rebellion gathered outside Wimbledon Centre Court to expose Barclays greenwashing. John McEnroe look-alikes challenged the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC): ‘You cannot be serious!’ Last year, the AELTC signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with Barclays – which is funding the destruction of ancient forests, fuelling climate […]| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion can reveal today that Windsor Great Park in Berkshire - one of the monarch’s many residencies - will be the location of a three-day mass occupation called 'Upgrade Democracy', which will take place from Friday 30 August to Sunday 1 September. Our occupation at Windsor will not be targeting a person, it will target our broken system to advance our Third Demand that "The Government must create and be led by a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice."| Extinction Rebellion UK
Stop Insuring new fossil fuels - or face direct action - Extinction Rebellion UK| Extinction Rebellion UK
Extinction Rebellion groups around the UK have been running 'community assemblies' for more than a year now, to give ordinary people a voice and way to work together to find solutions to local issues.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Email: press@extinctionrebellion.uk Phone: +44(0)7756136396 Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Donate Media Assets – Will be coming through once march gets underway, roughly 14:00 On Saturday 22nd of June, the Restore Nature Now (RNN) march will leave from Park Lane and move via Piccadilly, Haymarket and Trafalgar Square down Whitehall to Parliament Square. […]| Extinction Rebellion UK
A game-changing ruling by the Supreme Court that planning permission for oil drilling at Horse Hill in Surrey is unlawful has shown that grass-roots non-violent direct action - branded ‘extremist’ by newspaper and TV talking heads - is winning.| Extinction Rebellion UK
A landmark decision by the Supreme Court today (20 June) has raised major barriers to all new fossil fuel projects across England and Wales, including the proposed new coal mine in Cumbria and the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Just weeks after JPMorgan Chase was identified as by far the largest lender to fossil fuel companies in 2023, five women from Extinction Rebellion who “broke glass in case of climate emergency” at the bank’s European headquarters have been sentenced for what the bank claimed to be £306,000 worth of criminal damage. Meanwhile all defendants have lodged appeals and pressure mounts on Judge Silas Reid.| Extinction Rebellion UK
As hundreds of thousands of people across the country prepare for what promises to be the biggest march to protect nature in a generation, new polling reveals that almost three-quarters of the public believe the government is failing to protect our country's nature, threatening our very life support systems and biodiversity.| Extinction Rebellion UK
>> Photos of the protest at the Africa Energies Summit Extinction Rebellion and allies protest at global energy conference as fossil fuel crooks gather in London to plan the plunder of Africa’s oil and gas resources Fossil fuel bosses and government officials from the UK and countries across Africa were confronted by scores of protestors […]| Extinction Rebellion UK
BBC TV presenter and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham, and the government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King, yesterday (2 May) joined MPs, scientists and residents, to issue a series of warnings against Gatwick Airport’s expansion plans during the hearing into Gatwick’s expansion plans.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Major insurer Probitas1492 have today (Monday) confirmed that they will never insure two major ‘carbon bomb’ projects - the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and the proposed West Cumbria coal mine - after a week of peaceful protest from Extinction Rebellion (XR) and members of the Insure Our Future coalition.| Extinction Rebellion UK
Sign up for The Big One and help us make history. From 21 April 100,000 people will gather at the Houses of Parliament. Make sure you’re there for the biggest climate protest the UK has ever seen.| Extinction Rebellion UK
