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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 5d

Sign the petition to demand world leaders protect the Sumud Flotilla Now and urgently work to release activists from Israeli detention
action.eko.org/a/world-lead...

#sumudflotilla #freepalestine

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now

Right now, the last remaining vessel of the Sumud Flotilla, The Marinette, is approaching Gaza's waters -- carrying brave activists who are all risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal siege on G

action.eko.org

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 18d

▪️Make/paint a rocket, stick pics of your least favourite billionaires peering through its windows 
▪️Add MAKE THEM PAY and SEND THEM TO SPACE messages on the sides!  
▪️Take a pic and post on your social media account with  #MakeThemPay
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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 18d

🌍💰MAKE THEM PAY - Today! 20 Sep - Support from home 🌍💰  
There are currently 2,769 billionaires in the world, and their ever-growing concentration of wealth is enabled by a monopolistic concentration of power and influence.
 🏡🚀 See the thread for crafty way to join the XR bloc from home...

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Make Them Pay @makethempay.bsky.social · 18d

The NHS is crumbling, schools are underfunded, energy bills keep rising – & billionaires keep getting richer

It’s time to put an end to this catastrophic inequality

It’s time to tax the super-rich & use the money to fund the services we all depend on. It's time to #MakeThemPay

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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 18d

Today we’re at the #MakeThemPay demonstration in London to demand that those responsible for climate breakdown and rising inequality pay up.

While polluting corporations and billionaires are allowed to destroy our planet, ordinary people are made to live with the consequences.

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 21d

AXA: From Cameron LNG fuelling the global trade in fracked shale gas, to Drax power station with its devastating ecological footprint, to arms giant Leonardo, & oil giant OMV, AXA is using customers’ premiums to profit from businesses involved in genocide, destruction & climate chaos.
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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 21d

AIG: From Maersk shipping military equipment to Israel, to BHP Billiton (caused Brazil’s worst environmental disaster), to BP supplying oil for Israel’s war machine, to Rolls-Royce & Leonardo creating military machinery, AIG’s finance is allowing these companies to profit from destruction.
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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 21d

@aiginsurance @axa

STOP THE DESTRUCTION!
When will you end investment and insurance of fossil fuels and weapons? People are dying around the world, their survival depends on your actions.
#InsureOurSurvival
#StopInsuringWeapons
#NoNewFossilFuels
#StopEACOP
#ClimateCriminals
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350.org @350.org · 26d

1/7 Next week we are rising up, around the world, to #DrawTheLine — against climate chaos & #MakeBillionairesPay.

We're taking part in mass rallies, strikes, walkouts, & artistic interventions against injustice, pollution, & violence – & to demand a future built on peace, equality & clean energy.

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 27d

Can you spare 15 mins to join our social media action to hold AXA & AIG to account?

Guide, posts & images:
xrb.link/z26r7C

- Expose the facts
- Connect the dots between insurance, war & climate chaos
- Put strain on their public image
- Demand that they #InsureOurSurvival NOW!
#ExtinctionRebellion

xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 27d

AIG Facts:
- In the top 10 of fossil fuel insurers
 - Insure Dana, BP & Freeport LNG Terminal
- Haven’t ruled out the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
- Developed with others a major gas field in Palestinian waters off Gaza on Israel’s behalf
- Talbot insure supply chains fuelling Israeli military.

xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 27d

 Today: Join us to call AIG and demand they end all underwriting & investment in fossil fuel expansion, arms companies, and institutions complicit in genocide.

  Instructions, script & zoom link here:
xrb.link/z26r7C

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 28d

AXA Facts:
- Underwriters of 4/5 US Gulf coast LNG Ports
- Supports colonial projects ex. Mozambique gas & Amazon deforestation
- US$150.43 mill in 11 companies supplying weapons to Israel (Aug24)
- US$134.91 mill invested in producers of depleted uranium, nuclear arms, & white phosphorus (Aug24)

xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · 28d

Today: Join us to demand AXA end all underwriting & investment in fossil fuel expansion, arms companies, and institutions complicit in genocide.  
Instructions, script & zoom link here:
xrb.link/z26r7C

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Sep 9

Do-it-at-home action to support #InsureOurSurvival starts tomorrow! 

❓Take the 2 minute quiz: find out why you should get involved quiz.crisisquiz.online  

🏡 Do-it-at-home actions
 xrb.link/z26r7C

  📍Insure Our Survival UK events
xrb.link/C6XL5x

  Join the wave of global action from your sofa!

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

🚨INSURERS SECRET FLY UNDER THE RADAR NO MORE 🚨
We are exposing the truth AXA, you can no longer sell us life insurance while profiting from weapons of destruction.
You can no longer use our insurance premiums to fund genocide.

⚠️ We wear gas masks as we expose your toxic industry.

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes so true! So powerful!

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XR Nottingham @xrnottm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Isn't art just so wonderful at capturing a moment in history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice

The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.

www.bbc.co.uk

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Sep 7

Insure Our Survival International Wave of Action 8-22 Sep  

Be part of the coordinated global wave of actions.
Tell AIG & AXA: stop insuring arms & fossil fuels now!

  Do-it-at-home actions
 🔗 xrb.link/z26r7C

#InsureOurSurival local actions in the UK:
 🔗 xrb.link/C6XL5x 

#DigitalRebellion

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Sep 7

💡🔥 AXA & AIG’s offices were lit up across 10 cities worldwide to launch our phase of action 8-22 September.

We are exposing the truth: Big Insurance is fuelling climate chaos + genocide.

From Manchester to Johannesburg, Paris to Auckland: insurers of destruction can’t hide.
#InsureOurSurvival

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🇪🇺United4Climate Justice🇺🇬⭕ @ucjuganda.bsky.social · Sep 7

Dandora Landfil in Nairobi is overflooded with plastic wastes,can I assume like there'snt any application for such plastic wastes or there's no any plastic manufacturing firm in Kenya?The truth is Recycling model isn't working for plastic,oil&gas giant #StopFossilFuelSubsidies @ucjglobal.bsky.social

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Aug 19

The UN plastics treaty talks collapsed in Geneva after fossil fuel interests blocked progress again.

📢 It’s time to fight back
🖊️ Sign the petition to demand real action on plastic pollution
👉 only.one/act/plastics...

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Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social · Aug 13

Is the right to protest being unfairly redefined and restricted?

Partner, Laura O’Brien joins James Hanson on @lbc.co.uk to outline the legal implications around the Palestine Action ban and why it may potentially threaten all protest rights. 1/3

#PalestineAction #RightToProtest #CivilDisobedience

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xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Take 5 to:
👨🏽‍💻Challenge UN on lobbyists presence
xrb.link/sG3B7mT

Demand top plastic polluters support a Global Plastics Treaty, & ditch single use plastics
🧴Unilever xrb.link/Ri5u2q
🧋Nestlé xrb.link/dK83y42
🥤Coca Cola xrb.link/oe67SL6XU
👤Reduce your plastic waste
xrb.link/t2PUm9

* xrb.link/e0C8aqx7

xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social @xrdigitalrebel.bsky.social · Aug 12

The UN Global Plastic Treaty negotiations are failing!

😡 184 nations are deadlocked over basic definitions, the treaty's scope & limiting plastic production
❌ 2 days to go yet working text had nearly 1500 disagreements marked on Mon*
❗️ 234 oil, petrochemical & plastics lobbyists are there
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