UK government commits £24 billion in new defence spending and just £12 billion allocated to ‘green recovery’ investment.
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It is with great sadness that we announce that Fi Radford died on Sunday 22 November 2020. Fi was among the first Extinction Rebellion Bristol rebels. She became ‘mother’ to the central meeting, held at Malcolm X Centre, inducting literally hundreds of us and was one of XR’s Rebel Elders, ...
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On the 2nd anniversary of Bristol’s Climate Emergency declaration, Extinction Rebellion asks: is the city on course to meet its targets?
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Today, National Clean Air Day, sees the official launch of a new coalition of health, justice, and climate activist groups from across Bristol. The Our Air Our City campaign will be pushing for urgent, effective action to eliminate Bristol’s dangerous air pollution.
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On Friday 2nd October, campaigners for global climate justice delivered a letter to the Bristol office of Liberty Mutual Insurance, demanding they stop insuring oil extraction and pipelines from tar sands, one of the dirtiest sources of fossil fuel.
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Today an XR Bristol dad climbed onto the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to protest the world's current trajectory towards 4 degrees of global temperature rise.
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On the last day of five days of protests in Cardiff, we turned our focus to the wider issues of climate and ecological justice, joining a march organised by a new coalition of campaigners and organisations from across South Wales, who have come together to create unity across Welsh activism.
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Early this morning, rebels blockaded the Viridor incinerator site at Trident Park, highlighting the injustice of plans to build a second incinerator in Cardiff.
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Today, rebels staged a series of actions in Cardiff exposing corporate greenwashing and highlighting the pivotal role of the media in holding the Government to account for its failures on the climate and ecological emergency.
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Today, on the second day of five days of Cardiff Rebellion, rebels are holding a socially-distanced “beach party” on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay, to highlight the catastrophic impact of climate change on weather patterns and rising tides.