Views From The U.K Extinction Rebellion

A Look At The U.K Extinction Rebellion Protests.

 

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4°C = DISPLACEMENT, WAR, STARVATION, PANDEMIC, EXTINCTION⁣ ⁣ Yesterday, 20 women d-locked themselves to the railings outside Parliament. They put their bodies on the line, bearing the message of the consequences of a 4degree world, asking why the Government can’t bare the truth of the climate emergency. ⁣ ⁣ Also yesterday, the Climate Assembly UK, made up of a representative proportion of the population, called for ‘more education and information about climate change and the steps needed to tackle it’. The UK people are asking for information, so why is the Government staying silent? Why is Boris, his Government and Murdoch’s press empire ignoring the gravity of the greatest threat life has ever faced? This is the truth laid bare. Why don’t they care?⁣ ⁣ This week we have come together to take nonviolent civil disobedience and sacrifice our freedom from state surveillance and being branded as serious organised criminals. Now we will continue our essential work, calling MPs to back the CEE bill, disrupting corporate press and private lobbyists. We will continue to educate, learning from our mistakes and growing from our success. Training in nonviolent civil disobedience. And reaching journalists with the ever present reality of climate catastrophe. Informing the public on the truth the corporate press can not face (less than half of adults in the UK agree that we have a free press – yougov September 2020)⁣ ⁣ CITIZENS ASSEMBLY NOW⁣ ⁣ We must continue until people have the power to decide together on government policy on the urgent action needed to face the many crises in front of us now.⁣ ⁣ #WeWantToLive #loveragerebel #TellTheTruth #metpolice #FuckThisShit #ChangeIsNow #rebelforlife #protest #nvda # #extinctionrebellion #lockon #titsout #naked #protest #womenpower #extinctionrebellion #actnow

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Not your usual mannequins. Photo: Natasa Leoni

Photo: Helena Smith

The last day of rebellion started much like any other – with a brave and provocative action that left police floundering.

13 courageous women D-locked themselves by the neck to railings outside parliament, with a banner that read ‘Can’t bare the truth?’. 5 more women sat on the floor and were also arrested. Printed across their chests were the terrible consequences of a world heated by 4°C: Violence, Famine, Displacement, Pandemic.

While the topless rebels dared people to look at the truth, police turned their backs and formed a barricade around them, finally using vans to block them entirely from public view.

Photo: Jonathan Vines

Rebels from XR Youth, XR Fashion Action and the Textiles Rebellion bared all to glue themselves to the H&M shop window at London’s most iconic shopping destination, Oxford Street.

These tongues are made for talking. Photo by Vincenzo Lullo

On 3rd September, a respected scientist was addressing a small gathering about farming and pandemics when, without warning, the police seized her microphone and arrested her.

Solicitors from Bindmans are challenging the arrest and requesting a full apology.

Photo: Gareth Morris

Preach it, sister. Photo: Jamie Lowe

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