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Extinction Rebellion: Direct Action to Save the Planet from Climate Change

About the Series

Extinction Rebellion is a campaign group demanding governments take urgent action on climate change. Known as ‘XR‘, the group has a direct action approach to protest. The movement calls for mass economic disruption using civil disobedience to halt the destruction of the planet and its wildlife and prevent catastrophic climate change. Unlike many other campaign groups, XR activists are often willing to go to jail as a symbolic act.

The group has become very popular, very fast. There are now XR groups in the US, Ghana, and New Zealand as well as Western Europe. DeSmog has been following XR‘s evolution from its inception in October 2018.

In This Series

uk/Former Green Party Spokesperson Arrested at ‘Home of Climate Denying Thinktanks’

ByRich Collett-White

onSep 3, 2020 @ 16:59 PDT

Four Extinction Rebellion activists were arrested on Wednesday night at the end of a demonstration in Westminster against the influence of “right-wing climate sceptic thinktanks” on the UK’s politi...

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uk/Zadie Smith Joins Protest Against ‘Right-wing Climate Sceptic Thinktanks’

ByRich Collett-White

onSep 2, 2020 @ 11:54 PDT

Prominent writers and actors gathered outside the offices at 55 Tufton Street on Wednesday evening to highlight the role they say organisations based in and around the Westminster address play in s...

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uk/Lawyers Rebel Against 'Abject Failure' of Legal System to Prevent Climate Crisis

ByIsabella Kaminski

onOct 14, 2019 @ 09:07 PDT

Climate activists have very visibly taken over central London once again, climbing onto planes and spraying government ministries with red paint. But some are taking a quieter, more legal, approach...

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uk/‘Nobody Talks About It, Not Even The Environmental Movement’: Meet the Campaigners Taking On Animal Farming

ByRich Collett-White

onOct 9, 2019 @ 11:50 PDT

In less than a year, climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion has become a household name, with its distinctive hourglass logo plastered around as a symbol of the urgent need for action. But...

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Opinion

uk/Comment: Why Aggressive Media Attacks on Extinction Rebellion Should Concern Everyone

onOct 8, 2019 @ 09:21 PDT

Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors “importunate nose-...

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uk/Over One Hundred Arrested as Extinction Rebellion Occupy Westminster

ByRich Collett-White

onOct 7, 2019 @ 06:35 PDT

Extinction Rebellion protestors closed off sections of central London as the group launched two weeks of actions targeting the government's failure to sufficiently address the threat of climate cha...

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uk/Rebels With a Cause: Is Getting Arrested a Good Way to Protest for Climate Action?

ByIsabella Kaminski

onJun 5, 2019 @ 00:42 PDT

For two weeks in April, Extinction Rebellion grabbed the attention of the nation. Protestors blockaded large parts of central London, turned Waterloo Bridge into a community garden and camped out o...

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uk/'Climate Emergency': How Extinction Rebellion's Language of Urgency is Shaping the Political Agenda

onMay 1, 2019 @ 01:29 PDT

After weeks of mass demonstration, Extinction Rebellion’s demand that the government “tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency” has moved from the streets of London to the cor...

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uk/Two Weeks of Extinction Rebellion — In Pictures

onApr 25, 2019 @ 06:32 PDT

For a sunny fortnight in Spring 2019, you couldn’t scroll through a newsfeed without seeing the words “Extinction Rebellion”. Thousands of protestors occupied five sites in London over the Easter ...

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uk/'People Are Listening Now' — Extinction Rebellion's 10 Days in the Spotlight

BySoila Apparicio

onApr 25, 2019 @ 05:48 PDT

High above Parliament Square, a small group of people swing from hammocks between the trees. They won't stay elevated for long. Police brought the members of campaign group Extinction Rebellion ba...

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uk/Comment: Climate Deniers are Threatened by Extinction Rebellion Because It Challenges the Ideology on Which Their Luxurious Lifestyles are Built

onApr 17, 2019 @ 01:19 PDT

The Extinction Rebellion protest movement has grown in scale and impact in recent weeks, bringing energy and chaos to the streets as people wake up to grim climate realities. Alongside the School S...

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uk/'It’s Not Every Day You See a Boat in the Middle of Oxford Circus' — Extinction Rebellion Halts London to Demand Action on Climate Change

BySoila Apparicio

onApr 15, 2019 @ 06:16 PDT

Miles from the river Thames, a boat brought central London to a standstill on Monday as campaign group Extinction Rebellion launched an international protest demanding action on climate change. Th...

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uk/Extinction Rebellion Climate Protestors Found Guilty of Criminal Damage for Digging Hole in Parliament Lawn

ByIsabella Kaminski

onApr 1, 2019 @ 06:12 PDT

Two climate change protestors have been found guilty of criminal damage after digging a hole outside the Houses of Parliament. Paul Enock and Stephen McDonald, both 62, pleaded not guilty during a...

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uk/Climate Change Means 'Real Death, Real Blood' — Extinction Rebellion Paints Downing Street Red

BySoila Apparicio

onMar 9, 2019 @ 23:36 PST

‘Blood’ was spilled outside Downing Street on Saturday as campaign group Extinction Rebellion kickstarted its spring action with a graphic sea of red. Protestors emptied buckets of artificial bloo...

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uk/London Fashion Week: Extinction Rebellion Calls on Fashion Industry to Acknowledge Climate Emergency

BySoila Apparicio

onFeb 17, 2019 @ 07:40 PST

Wearing black to mourn for “the hundreds of species that daily go extinct,” protesters from campaign group Extinction Rebellion swarmed roads leading to London’s Fashion Week on Sunday, creating tr...

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uk/Comment: Why It's Too Soon for Newspapers to Claim Gatwick Disruption is the Fault of an 'Eco-Warrior'

onDec 21, 2018 @ 00:22 PST

Many newspapers this morning have speculated that the current chaos at Gatwick airport is down to an “eco-warrior”. Their basis for this claim? Almost nothing. The Telegraph’s frontpage reads “Env...

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uk/'Embarrassed' Energy Minister Claire Perry Heckled by Anti-Fracking Campaigners at UN Climate Talks Event

onDec 13, 2018 @ 09:20 PST

Energy minister Claire Perry apologised to international observers after being repeatedly interrupted by four climate protesters during an event in which she announced the UK had formally requested...

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uk/‘This Process is Not Made For Us’: Climate Campaigners Call On Governments to Listen to Demands of ‘Real People’ at COP24

onDec 5, 2018 @ 10:27 PST

The UN climate talks are often portrayed as an exclusive and inaccessible place in which ordinary people's voices are rarely heard. As the clock to prevent catastrophic climate change ticks away, t...

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Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide

onNov 20, 2018 @ 02:11 PST

More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic steps to cut em...

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uk/Protesters Arrested Outside Parliament In 'Extinction Rebellion' Against Climate Inaction

onOct 31, 2018 @ 08:02 PDT

Hundreds of people staged a peaceful sit-in and blocked the road in front of the UK Parliament in a symbolic act of rebellion against the UK government, accusing it of inaction in the face of clima...

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