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Simon Bramwell, 53, was pictured being dragged away by four police officers at a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, ...
When it comes to headline-grabbing protests, the rules just changed again - COMMENT: The publicity stunt that fuses a sense ...
One of the core aims of Extinction Rebellion is to drain the resources of the police in order to highlight climate change. More than 1,000 people were arrested at their last mass 'rebellion' in April.
Extinction Rebellion sits in the long lineage of campaigns which set out very deliberately to cause disruption in order to raise awareness of a perceived injustice – in this case, the climate ...
Extinction Rebellion member Patricia Devlin, 78, a grandmother of two, who began a hunger strike outside the Dáil in November to highlight government inaction on the climate and ecological emergency.
Extinction Rebellion says it wants to recruit 3.5 per cent of the UK population - or 2.3million people - to its cause as part of a comeback next year after activity slowed during the pandemic.
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have been called all sorts of things. Depending on who you speak to, they are earth warriors and selfless rebels. To others they are louts, agitators, and ...
Extinction Rebellion – or XR – is a non-violent socio-political movement. It was founded in London in 2018 to protest and to demand action against climate breakdown.
Two members of Extinction Rebellion were arrested in the centre of Belfast, accused of throwing red paint on the Barclays Bank building in Castle Place. The 33-year-old man and 30-year-old woman ...
Two years before I become a journalist, throughout the end of 2018, all of 2019, and part of 2020, I was an activist with Extinction Rebellion (XR). Like most members of the group, climate ...
Extinction Rebellion has agreed to help guard the London Marathon from protesters on Sunday in a unique deal to protect one of the “crown jewels” of British sport.
Extinction Rebellion activists superglue themselves to road to block Dover port When the eco-warriors arrive on the streets of London tomorrow they will gather at 11 points across the capital ...