XRWD NEWS

Extreme Weather Events Outreach and Training
XR Warwick District was on the streets of Leamington on Saturday 25 talking to citizens about these events, using a survey board...

Insure Our Survival London and Birmingham 2024
XRWD met up with rebels from from across the country on 28 October 2024 to march to several insurers, pressuring them to stop insuring fossil fuels.
Extinction Rebellion occupied insurance companies and caused disruption across the City of London including the Walkie Talkie, home to insurers As...

National Trust Drop Barclays!

RESTORE NATURE NOW!

Insure Our Future Birmingham May 2024
Restore Nature Now: Bus from Leamington 22 June
XR Warwick District is organising a bus from Leamington, £23 per head, with discounts for children and unwaged: get your tickets here: Eventbrite

Air Pollution Outreach

London’s Insure Our Future March 2024

Air Pollution Outreach

Stop Birmingham Airport Expansion Protest
XRWD vs Air Pollution
We decided to focus on air pollution in Warwick District going forward, drawing on resources from other XR groups and data on pollution postcode by postcode.

Outreach / Climate Roulette / Coffee

CUT THE CRAP SEVERN TRENT
- In 2020, Severn Trent dumped raw sewage into the rivers for more than 500,000 hours
- Meanwhile, they paid out £261 million in dividends last year and CEO Liz Garfield p...

Outreach and Picnic

THE BIG ONE!

Bus for the Big One
BUS FOR THE BIG ONE
The Big One on 21 April is the focus of Extinction Rebellion Warwick District (XRWD) right now. We are spreading the word at outreaches in the run-up to the event, a whole new approach for XRUK, with the aim now to get as many to London as possible, without disrupting the public...

Barclays Action Jan 23

XRWD at the Climate Justice Rally 12 Nov

XRWD at October 2022 Rebellion: We can't afford this

Dear Barclays, sick of us yet?
Warwick University Outreach

XRWD at April 22 Rebellion

Dear Barclays... we handed this letter to Barclays on Saturday 15th UPDATED

COP26 Die-in November 21

XRWD at The Impossible Rebellion

Arrestee support in the Impossible Rebellion

VIGIL OUTSIDE THE LEAMINGTON TOWN HALL 14TH AUGUST 2021

ART IN THE PARK SATURDAY 7th AUGUST 2021

Protecting our Right to Protest

DO OR DIE
2021 is a critical year for our planet. Time is running out and we need to explode out of lockdown with renewed energy. We also need to respond to the ways in which the world around us has changed.
This new strategy, called 'Do or Die', is the result of a bold experime...

Global Newsletter #50
We have understood the science of the climate crisis for over 30 years. The first IPCC report, where the world’s scientific community set out the scale of the problem, came out in 1990. But our governments chose not to act then, and still fail us today.
It is from that f...

WARWICK DISTRICT COUNCIL CLIMATE CHANGE INQUIRY

Rebellion of One moved to 1st MAY
While this may be disappointing and frustrating news to some, we are hearing many rebel voices across the UK who think a delay could make the action more powerful.

Global Newsletter #49
Back in the summer of 2019, a small group of UK rebels felt something was missing from the exciting wave of climate activism that XR had ushered into the world. Our first International Rebellion had pushed the climate emergency into popular culture, and we were busy linking the cli...

Mattermost and The Hub
XR UK now has its own communications setup called The Hub bringing together all sorts of resources including Rebellion Academy, Rebel Toolkit, Forums and Mattermost.
Mattermost is XR's own chat platform with groups/channels at local, regional an...

Banner Drop and Twitterstorm - help needed!

Local group meeting 23 February 2021

Stop HS2: Have you got evidence?
Taken from a newsletter from the Stop HS2 Campaign
After an eight-month wait, we finally have a date for the permissions hearing of our Judicial Review, a legal challenge against the decision by Government to issue HS2 with Notice to Proceed. Besides the ...

XR WORLD
An alliance of dedicated XR mem...

DISCOBEDIENCE!
here's an example in Australia: https://twitter.com/xrebellionaus/status/1182514123071840257
...and one outside Buckingham...

Feedback from XRWD LGM
The main issue that we discussed was the CEE bill and how to support it. The political working group is talking to local councillors about how they can show their support for the bill and are involved in drafting a statement of support that counc...

What's a 'Rebellion of One'?
If one thing is clear, it’s that the government is not about to ‘build back better’ from Covid-19: their policies and budgets give them away. Clearly visible behind the coat of greenwash are the ...

Global Newsletter #48
Dear rebels,
Without a massive mobilisation to address the climate crisis, our civilisation will collapse. That was the stark message delivered to policymakers this month in an article by an international team of scientists.
Policymakers also know, thanks to a UN global climate poll ...

Warwickshire Climate Alliance Update
It is...

Uk Action Strategy Update
It's time to start thinking about the window of possibility for XR as we emerge from a crazy difficult 2020 and build towards COP26 in November 2021.
Please check...

Incredible Edible - Leamington Spa

Global Newsletter #47
When Extinction Rebellion first hit the world’s headlines, it was because we were willing to break the law to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
But last year saw a marked shift in climate activism’s relationship with the law. Across the globe communities and organisations h...

The Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill

HS2 – Let's End It
Now, in the face of multiple emergencies - climate, environment, pandemic and economic - HS2 is a bankrupt idea beyond belief.
We need 100,000 signatures to trigger a debate in Parliament for a new vote on the future of HS2.
Act Now - Please click h...

12 Days of Podcasts

Global Newsletter #46
Governments are pledging to avert a climate crisis while their economies bankroll and intensify it.
Production of coal, oil, and gas must fall right now to keep global heating under 1.5C. Yet a new UN backed report shows how governments across the world are planning...

Research Into Public Profiles

Stop Ecocide and become an Earth Protector
UK barrister Polly Higgins (1968-2019) spent the last 10 years of her life working towards creating a legal duty of ...

Collaboration With Local Environmental Organisations

UK Newsletter #19
This week, the UN Secretary General made a moving speech that detailed the hell we’re heading for (transcript; video summary).
‘Humanity is waging war on nature,’ he said, ‘This is suicidal.’
Indeed, with a shiny new contract awarded to drill the world’s largest oasis, ‘globa...

Warwick District People's Inquiry on Climate Change

XR’s ‘Big picture’ systems project
You’re warmly invited to get involved through a new ‘story-catching’ tool called SenseMaker - sign up here and read on to learn more!
It’s been said that XR is...

HS2 - Does It Get Any Worse?
The desecration of memorials of children who have died fighting illness and disability in a hospice.
ACTION - If you feel moved to do so, please send a polite message to the HS2 Minister - Andrew.Stephenson@dft.gov.uk
And please help spr...

Warwickshire Bears in Trouble!
However we would still like to ask the County Council 'What is your plan?' We are aware that WCC members are dragging their feet since announcin...

Climate Assembly UK – a short introduction

HS2, Art Competition & A Local Group Meeting
After the demise of the Cubbington Pear Tree on Tuesday 20th October we feel a need to engage more members of the public who want to help when they see the reality of what HS2 are doing to their beautiful woodlands.
The threat to the Greenway at Offchurch and surrounding trees ...

A creative response to climate change
For many people, Climate Change is mankind’s greatest challenge, and one that the world is not facing up to.
- What is happening?
- Paint a poster!
- ...

Rebelling for the trees, HS2 & Amazon
The Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill now has the support of 75 MPs and if you're in the Warwick and Leamington constituency you may have spotted in Matt Western's latest newsletter that he is in support of the Bill too. Good news indeed! Thank you to everyone w...

Global Newsletter #44
Dear rebels,
The wave of rebellions continues! Rebels are sounding the alarm across the globe and inspiring more and more to take action for the planet. Despite extremely challenging circumstances, individual doubts, and police brutality, still we rise up as one unified (d...

XRWD Newsletter - National Tree Killing Day & More
Have you seen the video about the Rebellion? It's well worth watching....be prepared for an emotional rollercoaster: https://youtu.be/Jhl-9UBRK4w

Rebel Daily 7
Rebellion wraps up
Welcome to Rebel Daily #7 – the last issue of this Rebellion!
And what a Rebellion it has been.
Rebels have shown their true colours this Rebellion: the astounding bravery and dedication we’ve seen on the streets and online are testament to a movem...

Rebel Daily 6
Climate CSI
We hope you enjoyed catching up on the rest of the world’s action yesterday – today we’re back with the UK Rebellion.
Tomorrow will be the last day of this wave of Rebellion, so if you’re dithering at all, come on down! Keep checking that London broadcas...

Bouncing Back from the Rebellion
LOCAL GROUP MEETING: outdoors, socially distanced, Tuesday 8th September.
It's the second Tuesday of the month and we are taking advantage of the light and the forecast...

Rebel Daily 5
We will not be intimidated
Welcome to Rebel Daily #5 – and what an eventful weekend it was! Ugly words from our prime minister provided a sharp contrast with our beautiful earth-defending actions.
Ever since we crossed the Murdoch media (for a single night!), the go...

Rebel Daily 4
Don’t read the news, be the news
Welcome to Rebel Daily #4 – some of the only news available today!
A team of over 100 rebels blockaded newspaper printers overnight, successfully preventing The Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times from reaching newsstands all ...

Rebel Daily 3
Pop the kettle on, ‘Authoritarian Regime’ is starting
By day 3, the Rebellion has fully warmed up: we’ve seen bold and beautiful actions all over the place. And yet, as we bring more love, the police bring more aggression.
At Lambeth Bridge we saw the most shocking ...

Rebel Daily 2
If the trees die, so do we
On the first day, we found our feet and planted them in our public spaces. On the second day, we really got down to business. Rebels moved like water to target specific sites of ecocidal atrocity.
Manchester rebels expressed their outrage ...

Rebel Daily 1
Boats, Bills and and Boris the Bank Engine
You wouldn’t think we’re out of practice!
Across three cities yesterday, rebels poured onto the roads in carnivals of creativity and disobedience. We’ve only just begun, but what matters is we’ve found the magic once again:...

REBELLION INFORMATION
Please also see this link for a handbook giving further details on items such as pre-rebellion preparations, Covid-19 guidance etc:
TRAINING
Midlands XR are currently offering lots of wonderful training opportunities at the following link:
Please see the handbook for further details but pl...

XRWD - The 2020 Rebellion is here!
Now is the time to step forward, whether online or in person,...

It is all happening this weekend!!
Rebels in their local and regional groups are kicking off the Rebellion with a long weekend of civil disobedi...

Get help with rebellion expenses
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XR September Action Pack
In here you will find the WHY nows:interrobang:, WHAT we're asking for :mega:, the PLAN for London, Cardiff and Manchester :boom:, the ACTIONS so far 🥁 and HOW we'll communicate 🤳🏾 before and duri...

WE WANT TO LIVE 2020 REBELLION
So yes the REBELLION is upon us and we’re really hoping you can come and join us.
Please find the latest exciting rebellion proposals at the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RqtyvhzVviTQnNLI-1yaKoXQMDW7po5rt6GTxsBJqPs/edit?usp=sharing
Whether you fancy attending an acti...

ACTION WORKING GROUP
If you want to join the group, please contact Maria (maria.tauber@outlook.com).
The group is currently meeting on Wednesdays from 8.30-9.30 on Zoom.
We will send out ...

A new rebellion is approaching
The next UK Rebellion will start when the UK Parliament is due to sit again. We will peac...
XRWD Local Group Meeting & Other Events

The meeting will take place on Tuesday 23rd June, 7.30-9pm, on zoom...
XRWD Newsletter 16 June 2020
We, XRWD, would like to support the Sunday (Day 2) leg of this fantastic week long action from Birmingham to London.Day 2 Is short. Only 14 miles. It starts very near Hampton in Arden railway station (about 1Km away) at 09:00. The route passes very close to Berkswell r...

XRWD Newsletter 9 June 2020

XRWD Newsletter 25 May 2020
In this newsletter
- Local Group Meeting this Tuesday join us on Zoom
- Reclaim the streets, recent action
- Climate Action Network West Midlands, networking group
- No Going Back, a...

XRWD Newsletter 6 May 2020

EARTH DAY POEM
For you have unselfishly carried us along our path all the way,
Your beauty is astounding in the sea, in the sky and on the earth,

A glimpse of the future

#NHSnotHS2 - Help from Home
The new high speed railway, built by a Government company, will:
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Costs £110 billion (taxpayers)
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£4K per household!
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While the NHS struggles

Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis

XRWD coronavirus statement

May Rebellion & coronavirus

XR Corona Virus Community Action
Now is the time to *come together and demonstrate that we prioritise the health and wellbeing of our families and communities* over the h...

XR Online Study
XRWD are sharing this which came to us via email - XRWD are not responsible for the content of the questions or the outcome of the project. The wording below is from the website of the University of Sussex page.
Invitation to take part:
You are being invited to take part in a research study to fu...

XR Strategy for 2020
People Power
Bring a million people into active support and persuade 50% of the UK to see the Emergency as our country’s top priority.
Vision
Test out new tools that encourage us to collaborate, listen, and take an active role in building the futu...

XRWD in the press
Warwick District Council announced this week that a referendum is set to take place this year for an increase in council tax in the Warwick district which would then be used to tack...
