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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 2d

Em and Mark on day 1 walking the length of the River Wharfe.

They walked through flood water and saw red squirrels, dippers, a heron, kestrels.

💙 Water is life.
We need water and it needs us.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 4d

💭Some of our most profound moments are when people gathered to shape a better future together.
From the suffragettes to the civil rights movement, what was once condemned is seen as moral courage.

We have rights that ensble and empower us to peaceful protest.

Stand together.
We are stronger.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 4d

💚As an individual we hold so much power.
As a collective we are even stronger.

Think about who benefits from keeping us isolated and silent.

In times of atrocity, destruction and genocide, the courage to act to disrupt, to resist, to disobey is a right and moral responsibility to many.

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · 8d

AXA hiding their logo at a recent protest.

Nothing says transparency and commitment to our planet like hiding your logo at our action.

You enable and profit from the problem, and then hide away when we expose the truth.

‼️AXA, do better.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 8d

We are not just about climate change.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 8d

There was almost one discharge into our waterways every 30 seconds in 2024.

Thousands of people fell sick from contaminated water while our biodiversity is depleted.

💙Our waterways are the arteries and veins of the earth.
If we pollute those waterways, life will die.

📸: World Water Wedding

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Media Revolution @media-revolution.bsky.social · 9d

For #WorldNewsDay we transformed the outside of the BBC with climate photographs and placards.

Now. Can the BBC be transformed with people-powered ownership?

The headline is: we need media that serves the planet and people not power.

mediarevolution.org/news/world-n...
#MediaRevolution #OwnTheBBC

World News Day. - Media Revolution

Today – on World News Day 2025 – we stand at a pivotal moment for news. The global stakes involved in society’s relationship with news information, and those who provide […]

mediarevolution.org

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 11d

In 2024 alone, banks injected $869 billion into fossil fuel financing.

💚💚 Our DIRTY SCRUBBERS were out cleaning blood, oil, and greenwash from Banks in Eastbourne yesterday 💚💚

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 12d

One of our photographers Will is up for the British Photography Award

💚Please take a moment to vote and share with your networks

www.britishphotographyawards.org/2025-shortli...

@insureoursurvival.bsky.social

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 16d

Yeah he’s fab!!

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 16d

Last year, UK billionaires increased their wealth by £35 million A DAY while ordinary families struggle to choose between heating and eating.

We must hold those most responsible for climate breakdown accountable.

@makethem.pay

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 16d

The #mega-rich are treating the planet like their personal playground: 🤑 dodging taxes
💨 mega-polluting our planet
📈 driving up prices
🏘️ buying up houses
🏥 crumbling the #NHS

#BILLIONAIRES EMIT MORE CARBON POLLUTION IN UNDER 3 HOURS THAN THE AVERAGE BRIT DOES IN A LIFETIME

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 17d

🚨Thousands joined a coalition of groups for @makethempay.bsky.social yesterday

‼️ The richest 1% produce more than twice the amount of emissions as the poorest 1/2 of the population

Together we demand:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect the workers, not the billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
#TaxtheRich

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 21d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · 23d

We made it to the front page!

💗thank you so much @ipswichnews.bsky.social for highlighting our campaign and to our amazing rebels who stepped onto the street highlighting insurers role profiting from war crimes & climate collapse.

Read their article here:
www.ipswich.co.uk/articles/ext...

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 24d

Today, and everyday, we are grateful the amazing activists who fought for the freedoms we take for granted today.
We are grateful for those fighting to ensure we still have some freedoms in the future.
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So drink water. Breathe deep. Take a walk. Rest, that’s rebellion too.

Then take action.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 24d

Feeling overwhelmed by the endless waves of bad news?

That’s not an accident, it’s a tactic!
Authoritarians flood us with chaos to wear us down. They want us to stop paying attention.

But we can fight back.

💥 Resistance isn’t always loud.
🌿 Softness isn’t surrender, it’s strategy.

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Dirty Water Campaign @dirtywatercampaign.bsky.social · Aug 28

World Water Wedding campaign expresses love. Make some noise about how passionate we are about our water.
Lets give the government nowhere to hide in their scandalous abuse of our precious lifeline. Water is ours.

#worldwaterwedding
#waterpressure
#dirtywater
#Actnow
#extinctionrebellion

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is about survival.

Our future depends on dismantling the violent and exploitative systems wrecking our planet.

Insures sell us protection while secretly financing harm.

Insure Our Survival are targeting AXA and AIG two insurers responsible, 8th-22nd September.
💗We will take back the power.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Aug 27

Two rebels have committed to walking the whole of the River Wharfe.

They’ll do this between before March 22nd to deepen their connection and raise awareness of the threats that it faces.

Water is sacred.
🌊We need water, water needs us.

@dirtywatercampaign.bsky.social

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Aug 22

Water is sacred.
We need water & it needs us.

Only a few days to go!

💙Find the World Water Wedding book on the Rebel Toolkit here:
xrb.link/Wu2t6V

🌊Request XRUK Support form [to get your action on the map & calendar and get XRUK support] here:
xrb.link/E9RA14kN

(Photos from XR’s global pic comp)

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔴‘Where is the Prime Minister’s Vision of this Green, Pleasant and Multicultural Land?’

Sonia Purnell on how Keir Starmer's Government is failing to push back against anti-British propaganda on the right

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/where-is-t...

‘Where is the Prime Minister’s Vision of this Green, Pleasant and Multicultural Land?’

Sonia Purnell on how Keir Starmer's Government is failing to push back against anti-British propaganda on the right

www.bylinesupplement.com

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Aug 21

Aurora joining with 200 people who joined at Equinor, Norway’s largest refinery.
‌@extinctionrebellion.no have created the largest action in Norwegian history.

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realise we cannot eat money.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Aug 20

Not long to go now!

💙Find the World Water Wedding book on the Rebel Toolkit here:
xrb.link/Wu2t6V

🌊Request XRUK Support form [to get your action on the map & calendar and get XRUK support] here:
xrb.link/E9RA14kN

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Aug 19

Politicians need to listen to scientists, not just the lobbyists.

It’s more important than ever our institutions advocate for the public good that science brings…

💚Collective action is crucial.

theconversation.com/how-scientis...

@thierryaaron.bsky.social
@tristramwyatt.bsky.social

How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action

Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.

theconversation.com

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