If you want to sound hip, call them XR. The bane of climate-change deniers and frazzled commuters, Extinction Rebellion is a global activist movement vowing to use non-violent civil disobedience and direct action to address an ecological crisis.
"We have a duty to disobey this system which destroys life on Earth and is deeply unjust," its website says. A man has his wrist bent as he is detained by police during the "Spring Rebellion" on October 7 in Sydney.The group was founded in Britain in May 2018 by members of the social and environmental justice organisation Rising Up!, which evolved from a group called Compassionate Revolution.
She has addressed crowds at several Extinction Rebellion protests in London and in July she asked that proceeds from a song by a band called the 1975, which she provided vocals for, be directed to Extinction Rebellion.Naked activists glued themselves to the glass in the House of Commons in London in April.Non-violent civil disobedience is central to XR's modus operandi.
The movement has since spread to countries including the US, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand.Credit:XR emerged in March, in a protest lasting more than 24 hours at a railway affecting coal miner Adani, near Collinsville in far north Queensland. A young woman stopped coal trains by suspending herself from a tree above the railway, and other protesters stormed the tracks, with one locking themselves to a train.
If your filmed involved in these illegal activities, then your future career prospects are over. Employers don’t like giving jobs to loonies...
I keep asking this but no one seems to be able to answer it. What exactly do they want? We have the largest uptake of renewables in the world. No new coal plant and so on. What more can we do to appease them?
Spare me , same rabble that would turn up at the opening of an envelope
The face of climate anxious Lefties being used by globalists.
How did they there...🤔
Junkies
Hahaha 'bane of climate change deniers' good one 😂
I’ll stick with being unhip and call them what they are. Idiots. How is interrupting people’s days and causing chaos going to gain them support?
Anarchists causing disruption to the huge main stream objectors. XR actions could actually be counter productive. And yes I marched in September. ,
I wonder what percentage are skipping work to attend these rallies ?
An obligation to be arrested.
klimateklowns
In the process alienating many of the voters they need to win-over to enact the changes they are campaigning for.
They are terrorists , nothing more , nothing less .
They're absolutely nuts. It's mass brainwashing.
Obviously not busy people, too much time on their hands , first world problem that afflicts those who don’t have to worry about food, clean water and shelter
Internationalist Socialists funded by George Soros.
At lease they’re spending more time on climate change than our current government.
mass extinction is about to repeat so they are entitled to be a tad miffed - but it's not going to change what will happen
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