Published on Apr 16, 2019
A sometimes tearful Greta Thunberg criticised EU leaders in Strasbourg for not taking the threat posed by climate change seriously enough. The 16-year-old activist said: ‘If our house was falling apart our leaders wouldn’t go on like we do today … if our house was falling apart you wouldn’t hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and the environment.’
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HuffPost UK
Published on Apr 17, 2019
In the midst of unprecedented warnings of climate breakdown, a new, radical protest group emerged in the UK in 2018 – Extinction Rebellion.
Focusing on direct action and civil disobedience, Extinction Rebellion aim to disrupt daily life and confront government inaction on climate change. From their launch last year, we followed the group and witnessed its expansion.
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Channel 4 News
Published on Apr 18, 2019
Four environmental activists glued themselves together and chained themselves to the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s house.(Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Its unclear just how much disruption that has caused – but more than 300 people have now been arrested after 3 days of protests in London over climate change. ‘Extinction Rebellion’ has blocked traffic at major sites across the city and three activists today also glued themselves to a train at Canary Wharf station.
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Published on Apr 17, 2019
Hundreds of activists have been arrested in London.
As climate change activists Extinction Rebellion end their third day of protests, Newsnight asks if their tactics – which have caused mass disruption to travel networks – are a fair and effective way to get change.
Elizabeth Glinka reports and presenter Emma Barnett is joined in the studio by lawyer and activist Farhana Yamin and Lord Barker, former minister for climate change.
Newsnight is the BBC’s flagship news and current affairs TV programme – with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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Published on Apr 17, 2019
As thousands of protesters use roadblocks and glue to paralyse parts of central London, the Guardian’s Bruno Rinvolucri finds out how the public and the police are reacting to the disruption. Demonstrators have taken part in civil disobedience protests, blockading four landmarks in the capital in an attempt to force the government to take action on the escalating climate crisis
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Azure Peace
Published on Apr 13, 2019
#EXTINCTIONREBELLION #CLIMATECHANGE #FASHION Azure Peace
On Friday, 12th of April, between 6:30pm and 7:30pm we took over London’s Oxford Circus, the epicentre of the fast-fashion shopping “experience”. The Tokyo-style zebra ‘X’ crossing is to be turned into a catwalk as XRFA teams up with Sustainable Fashion brands and students from art and fashion colleges and universities all over London to showcase their sustainable fashion and body-protest designs. The theme “Fashion: Circus of Excess” addresses issues of un-sustainability in fashion and how its practices impact other species.
The models will parade across the iconic crossing, accompanied by the XR choir and XR musicians. This will include opera singers performing Beethoven’s ‘Ode An Die Freude’ (Ode to Joy) from his Symphony number 9, legendary drums ensemble “EarthNicht” and sound artist Benjamin Comeau. To amplify the call for immediate action on climate change, the event will be broadcasted live via mainstream and social media (using the hashtag #xrfashioncircus).
This action is one of many in the build-up to the International Rebellion from 15th April.
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Red5599
Published on Apr 20, 2019
Extinction Rebellion climate change protests 2019 London Waterloo Bridge Good Friday 19 April 2019
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