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Here is where we keep some of our previous material to remind us just how much we have been doing.

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Did you Join Us in Bath?

for the biggest

Climate, Nature and Social Justice

gathering and protest since G7

See if you can spot yourself in the crowds and jig along to the amazing Pete the Temp in our great video of the event, full of the colour, the spectacle, the passion, the energy & the spirit of change we need.

All the info you needed at https://xrsw.uk/

Join Us

for the biggest

Climate, Nature and Social Justice

gathering and protest since G7

Click on the videos to hear our Bristol Rebels share why they are going to be there.

All the info you need at https://xrsw.uk/

Welcome to Beyond

The BIG One

Everyone is welcome

Extinction Rebellion is founded on a number of fundamental principles

One of the key ones is that we value reflecting and learning.

Since The BIG One in April 2023, where we gathered so many thousands of souls to fight for our lives, we have been reflecting and learning about that event and what it helps us to do next.

We have done a lot of work deliberating at our open meetings and also hard graft behind the scenes to build our XR Bristol Strategy and are close to sharing with our local rebels.

In the meantime, here are some reflections and learnings from The BIG One.

The BIG One

Friday 21st to Monday 24th April 2023

Reflections

Leading up to the main event, hundreds of people gave thousands of hours, preparing banners, placards, posters to visualize their desires and act as a focal point for events. Here are a selection photographed at the Artworks and “Hub” set up at a location in North East London called Patchworks

Many of these items were then used at the People’s Pickets that were set up at every government department in and around Whitehall and close to Parliament Square.

These were put together at incredible speed by Rebels from all over the country and with linked concerns about what particular departments are NOT doing.

XR Bristol chose to support two pickets, one at the Department for Transport, because of their lack of coherent thinking in tackling the Climate and Ecological emergencies, and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, because of their inability to join up the dots of all the cumulative pollution from individual airport expansions that fly in the face of their legal obligations under existing Net Zero legislation.

And we also worked very closely with our friends at Bristol Airport Action Network to put on the largest symbolic procession of the Friday, the “Aviation March”, Anti-Airport Expansion march along Whitehall, through Parliament Square to finish outside the Department for Transport, closing half the road because of all the people stopping to hear some impressive and galvanising speeches.

We had huge support from Red Rebels, The Landing Crew, and the newly formed Bristol Climate Change Choir, which has already inspired similar choirs in Bath, London, Oxford and Sheffield to name just a few.

Saturday’s main event was the Biodiversity March where an estimated 65,000 people took part in the biggest mass die-in ever staged in the UK, but you wouldn’t know because the UK Media practically boycotted the event in a chilling reminder of who really controls the mainstream agenda.

Thankfully there is still Extinction Rebellion UK YouTube channel where you can see a range of videos from the event – https://www.youtube.com/@ExtinctionRebellionUK/videos

Learnings

We learnt a lot from The BIG One, such as

When active citizens act together, they can achieve amazing things…

We learnt how we can rely on our fellow Rebels to work so hard together

We can coalesce over 200 organisations to support our mutual, essential, vital cause…

We cannot trust established media to portray our cause correctly…

We also learned to use data to collate some immense feedback from our Bristol Rebels that has helped inform our thinking going forward.

See for yourself, visit https://eu.jotform.com/report/23117237267104928.

There is much more to come. More news soon as we start to roll out our new local strategy for the next 18 months taking in the next two election cycles.

Welcome to 2023

The year of Climate Action

The BIG One

April 2023

Everyone is welcome

Visit the page we had for before The BIG One 2023

The BIG One page

Too good to be true?

Find out on our

Barclays page…

On Thursday 19th January 2023 XR Bristol helped host the first “Stronger-as-One” Bristol Climate Movement Meeting

It was fantastic to see so many of you there and to hear from many other groups who are keen to be involved.

We hope you are able to join us for a second meeting – on Thursday 30th March, at the Unitarian Meeting Hall in Brunswick Square, St. Pauls, BS2 8PE.

Doors will open at 6pm for drinks (non-alcoholic) and simple, plant-based food.

The meeting will be from 6:45pm to 8:30pm, with time at the end for informal catch-ups before we close at 9pm.

Click here for more info →

The disgraceful (in)actions of many MPs is exposed by our Dirty Water Campaign

See what a Jacob Rees Mogg lookalike, a giant poo and a disgusted Mermaid have in common – it’s not a pretty sight.

Visit our Dirty Water Page, if you dare..!

Read about our Dirty Water Campaign

Tuesday 31st January 2023 = Terrible news

Bristol Airport Expansion Decision Announced

Read about the judgement

Going beyond our evening with
Gail Bradbrook…

Along with members of XR Bristol, Gail will took us on a thought-provoking discussion to explore ways that we can tackle the climate and ecological emergency, together.