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Global non-violent direct action movement demanding a response to the climate & ecological emergency.⏳ Donate at

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Donate Today to Extinction Rebellion Global at #extinctionrebellion #climatejustice #actnow
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Any fool in >40°C heat can see that 2050 is too late for net zero.
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Kuwait has the biggest tyre dump in the world. It is now on fire.
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If a heatwave’s been freaking you out, here’s some advice.
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Stay strong rebels. We love you all.
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Net zero 2050 explained
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The last 6 months or perhaps 30 years of geopolitics summarised in 90 seconds. Respect. Time to rebel.
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We're sorry... We don't want to disrupt you, your families and your loved ones but the inaction of our governments on the climate and ecological emergency is a death sentence. We are terrified, we are angry and we have to #ActNow . Join us in the streets - #InternationalRebellion .
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It's the Sixth Mass Extinction but the first where sentient beings have the opportunity to do something about it.
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BREAKING - UK MPs pass a motion to declare an environment & climate emergency. This has seen them start to #TellTheTruth about the climate & ecological crisis. They must now halt biodiversity loss, go net #ZeroCarbon2025 & create a #CitizensAssembly .
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It ain't over 'till it's over✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽✊🏾. We refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations by failing to #ActNow . We act in peace, with ferocious love of life in our hearts. We act on behalf of life. Our #InternationalRebellion continues.
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New #Banksy appeared at Marble Arch site of #ExtinctionRebellion last night: "From this moment despair ends and tactics begin. Despair is the infantile disorder of the revolutionaries of everyday life." Quote from Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life, 1967
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. @GretaThunberg arrives safely in the US and calls for everybody to put aside their differences and work together for climate and ecological justice. Join them this Friday outside the #UN in New York at 11 AM for #FridaysForFuture . @XR_NYC @AlexandriaV2005
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Update: statement from XR: “We would like to remind those who have ordered the police to use the “full force of the law” that #ExtinctionRebellion is peaceful and non violent. We face a climate and ecological emergency. Now is not the time to be on the wrong side of history”
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Brenda the civil disobedience penguin says:
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BREAKING: Hanna, seven months pregnant, was the last person to be arrested at Oxford Circus today. She said: "The energy is here, the time is right. This is our last chance and I’m doing this for my kids." How far would you go to protect your child? #InternationalRebellion
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Our demands 1 #TellTheTruth - Declare a climate and ecological emergency. 2 #ActNow - Halt biodiversity loss and go net #ZeroCarbon2025 . 3 #BeyondPolitics - A #CitizensAssembly for climate and ecological justice.
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"It will not be the people who block roads & bridges that history will judge badly, it is those who shut their eyes. We are going to change what is politically possible so it can become the scientifically necessary" @CarolineLucas introducing @GretaThunberg with standing ovation
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We don't want to be vindicated by climate breakdown; we want the whole of humanity to rise up and do everything possible to avoid this.
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Think it’s time to mount a resistance yet?
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If some of us in the climate movement seem a little on edge right now, it might be because we’re seeing the liveable planet being actively destroyed before our very eyes.
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The fossil fuel industry is at war with humanity - but most of humanity doesn’t realise it yet.
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Life shouldn't be about accumulating more money and objects it should be about enjoying *real* luxury when you can.
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"Police tried to close the entrance to The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace but they just keep on coming... #ExtinctionRebellion #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate ", @LdnRebellion . #YouthStrike4Climate #FridaysForFuture @Strike4Youth @UKSCN1 @ukycc
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No profit on a dead planet 🔥☠️
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" @GretaThunberg ... was crying & she's been saying & the other school strikers have been saying 'We're begging for our lives here'... So we're rising up to respond to that call those children are issuing", @GreenRupertRead , #ExtinctionRebellion . Join us.
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Please do join us ⁦ @GretaThunberg ⁩! All across the world, ordinary people are rising up and demanding justice. We are all part of the same glorious energy. We owe you so much. 🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚🌻💚
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That’s the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens that you can see on the right, photographed yesterday. It has stood for 2500 years - and it still stands for the moment. Act now or lose everything.
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*** BREAKING:*** Police Liaison just said the police have "graciously withdrawn" & decided NOT to clear #OxfordCircus !! #wearetheboat #ExtinctionRebellionLondon
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We are peaceful and calm. People are dancing and singing and making new friends. We are in open rebellion against the UK government. This is what the future looks like. #ExtinctionRebellion #WestminsterBridge
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#ExtinctionRebellion people act with respect towards each other, the public, the police, humanity and all life on earth. We’re sorry for the disruption that is being caused but it’s absolutely necessary if we’re going to have the best chance of saving our planet.
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This is obviously a joke but it highlights billionaires' outsized climate impacts. We apologise to any of the super-rich who feel uneasy around condiments at the present time.
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"The truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the supply of fossil fuels." Which countries is the Secretary General of the UN referring to here? Brace yourselves.🧵
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Say goodbye to Viet Nam. Say goodbye to Vanuatu. Say goodbye to Bangladesh. Say goodbye to the Maldives. Say goodbye to the habitable Sahel. Or refuse. Resist. Rebel.
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‼️ This is what democracy looks like ‼️ - One simple demand: Stop Fossil Subsidies - 6000 people, 130 groups, 80 musicians, 100 scientists - 1,500+ people arrested, water cannons turned on peaceful protesters - #A12 Blockade @NLRebellion Den Haag #StopFossieleSubsidies #ActNow
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This is HUGE! "Plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been ruled illegal by the court of appeal because ministers did not adequately take into account the government’s climate change commitments." This is how to act in a #ClimateEmergency ❌✈️
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Turn off the lights.
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Éteignez la lumière !!!!!
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This isn't normal for December.
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BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion activists strip off in House of Commons public gallery to call attention to the ‘elephant in the room’ — Climate and Ecological Crisis #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth @HouseofCommons
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Feel safe yet?
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That frog is cooked.
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Don't obey a system that is killing you.
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@xr_east This account is not managed by Extinction Rebellion UK or Extinction Rebellion East Midlands, and these messages are in no way a representation of the principles and values held by the movement and so are not the movement. We are investigating this now.
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“I want to know that things are moving in the right direction before I go... If... [ @GretaThunberg ] can do it for the young, then I can do it for the old.", Ti Østmo, 100 years old #ExtinctionRebellion Rebel. #RebelForLife :
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@GeeBee2166 @CarolineLucas @GretaThunberg @guardianlive @BritishQuakers This is from a totally separate event that took place in Hyde park. #ExtinctionRebellion activists went to help tidy up anyway because it grossed us out as much as it does you.
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Stay strong rebels. We love you all. You are making history. We will win.
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BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion activists strip off in House of Commons public gallery to call attention to the ‘elephant in the room’ — Climate and Ecological Crisis #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth @HouseofCommons
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We can't return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem. #SystemChange
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With a demand to immediately stop fossil fuel investment, the Impossible Rebellion has started in London!
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Until young people can see that we’re doing everything possible to ensure they can grow old on a broadly liveable planet, we should expect escalations in actions.
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Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
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"Enjoy it folks, its the COLDEST summer for the rest of your lives!"
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You can either have new oil and gas or a liveable planet. You can’t have both.
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#WaterlooBridge : over 100 arrests, 7 locked on and 5 of us up on the truck, but we are still holding the bridge. We are not leaving until this toxic system changes or until they arrest every last one of us. Reinforcements appreciated! #internationalrebellion
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We stand together. Whether it’s teargas in Brussels or Paris, injuries from excessive force in Prague, police discrimination in London or undemocraticnew laws in Australia, our answer is always the same: compassionate, powerful nonviolence. #RebelForLife
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"To act on your conscience means that everyone has a moral duty to everything they can in order to improve the world. This is not just some children who are angry at politicians, this is an existential crisis.", @GretaThunberg .
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"If you include sea travel,... air travel... [and] the carbon in the products that we buy from abroad. Emissions have barely fallen since 1990 so can we please nail this myth that Britain is a leader on climate, We're just not", @GreenRupertRead .
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Civil disobedience now. It's the only way we're going to get the radical changes we need to keep our planet liveable.
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So, apparently our protests have officially worked now... But we’re not stopping here. One phase of rebellion may end, but the international rebellion will continue until our demands have been met. Forwards! #InternationalRebellion
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Historic and wonderful. In a referendum it has been decided that oil will not continue to be extracted from Ecuadorian Amazon. Thank you and congratulations to the people of Ecuador for protecting their people, land nature, future & those of the rest of the world too.
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¡Hoy hicimos historia! Esta consulta, nacida desde la ciudadanía, demuestra el mayor consenso nacional en Ecuador. Es la primera vez que un país decide defender la vida y dejar el petróleo bajo tierra. ¡Es una victoria histórica para Ecuador y para el planeta! #S ÍalYasuní
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This is why #ExtinctionRebellion means so much to ordinary people from across the board of society. Perhaps this is why it has succeeded in remarkable ways that established activists and big NGOs may learn from. This is humanity at its best #RebelForLife
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BREAKING: This is Downing Street now. We break the law today in this symbolic act of civil disobedience to rebel against the system that is killing people. People are dying because of climate breakdown right now. We have to remember. We act in solidarity.
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Hi @theresa_may , We’ve been on the streets since Monday and still no response from government. Will you come here and talk with us? We know you’re not doing enough. You know you’re not doing enough. So let’s just talk about it. #InternationalRebellion
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We have always been, are and will always be non-violent in London and the rest of the world. We act in peace, with ferocious love of life in our hearts. We act on behalf of life. We #RebelForLife against government inaction on the #SixthMassExtinction .
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The good news is when we shut down the fossil fuel industry, we shut down the plastics industry too.
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This is #Brazil . Still think you NEED that plastic water or soda bottle? Our addiction to plastic is killing our planet. #breakfreefromplasticpollutionact #stopusingplastic
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"I think it's actually doing more harm than good. It sends a signal that we can continue like this for...years", @GretaThunberg on why the UK government must #ActNow rather than by 2050. #FridaysForFuture
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The boat may have gone but it lives on in the spirit of those who remain at #OxfordCircus Thank you to all who have come down to support us, please continue to do so. We’ll let @ChrisGPackham tell you why we must all rise up and #rebelforlife on earth 🌎🌍🌏
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"By becoming the first state to ban oil and gas development on its territory, Quebec is paving the way for other states around the world and encouraging them to do the same,”
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The banning of petrol and diesel cars and motorbikes can be done because Amsterdam is doing it. If they can do it then your city should be able to also. #RebelForLife against government inaction on the climate and ecological crisis:
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Suddenly, a huge crowd of drummers appear in Parliament Square. I have no idea how this happened or where they came from. Truly unbelievable spirit. You cannot resist this urgent call for climate justice. #InternationalRebellion
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Most people know deep down that you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet. That endless consumption is killing us.
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BREAKING. Delighted to announce that @GretaThunberg will be at our Marble Arch site in London from around 7pm! Plus music from the world renowned 'Stroud Village Green Band'. Come on down! #extinctionrebellion #GretaThunberg
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How does that @taylorswift13 song go? “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me?”
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BREAKING: @JackHarries , 25, filmmaker, has been arrested for nonviolent protest at Int Petroleum Week, where oil & gas industry leaders plan to extract more fossil fuels contributing to mass genocide. Whose acts are more criminal? #extinctionrebellion #IPWeek
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We won't get out of the climate & ecological crisis by buying the correct products.
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The scene in Oxford Circus. Police here in huge numbers. We were trying to hold an event on climate justice and the need for kindness and equity at the heart of climate policy. “People have the power.” #InternationalRebellion
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This is catastrophic for literally hundreds of millions of people.
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Harsh heat will build in Southern Asia (again) in the coming days. Pakistan will break 50°C (122°F) in places. This follows a very hot March and hottest April on record. The heat really is relentless. Very hot also for large parts of India.
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Congratulations to the 636 fossil fuel lobbyists who were granted access to #COP27 , and to all the murderous, fossil-linked sponsors from @CocaCola to @GM . You guys won the day. We're still on track for an unlivable world. May your children forgive you.
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The 6th Mass Extinction by Nat Morley
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Tranquil moment in DJ set from 3D @MassiveAttackUK at Marble Arch #ExtinctionRebellion . Everyone sharing stories from the week, bridges, music, food, arrests, being met by legal observers at 4am outside police stations, new friends, inspiration. Real emergency, real XR community.
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There are no police pensions on a dead planet.
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"...and they're all washed out."
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