Below, Freedom reproduces an open letter to XR from Earth First!.
Earth First! open letter: To our friends from XR
Tag: XR
XR blockades private jet airport ahead of Davos talks
The action this morning, targeting business tycoons flying out of Farnborough, aimed to highlight the environmental damage being done by privileged groups generating vast amounts of pollution for the sake of luxury travel.
XR and Just Stop Oil Coalition continue their actions against the fossil fuel industry
It has been a few busy days in climate emergency activism.
Climate activists blockade Glasgow gas shipping office in solidarity with Ukraine
Climate activists have blockaded the Glasgow offices of Russia-linked shipping company Seapeak, demanding an end to gas shipping that is fuelling the invasion of Ukraine.
Jailing the Peaceful
James Brown, the Extinction Rebellion protestor and partially sighted paralympian who glued himself to the top of a plane has had his prison sentence reduced from twelve to four months by the Court of Appeal.
In defence of ‘In defence of Extinction Rebellion’
It would be prudent for me to open with the affirmation that this is an ‘opinion piece’.
In defence of Extinction Rebellion
“The next popular climate movement can only avoid a slow death if its politics are as red as they are green.”
Don’t want to get arrested before a demo? Then don’t publicise a plan to break the law!
The raid on Animal/Extinction Rebellion’s warehouse shows why you shouldn’t publicly broadcast plans to break the law.
I got de-escalated by XR and then the police evicted them
Dear all at XR!
On Class and Climate Struggle: Decolonising XR
In the last week, two widely-shared images have summed up deep-rooted problems at the heart of the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Recent Articles
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
