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Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, wrote "Now we know: conventional campaigning won’t prevent our extinction" in The Guardian on May 1, 2019.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Two years ago a group of researchers and activists started to meet to seriously consider two questions – why has campaigning failed so catastrophically over the past generation and how can we make it work."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"Drawing on the groundbreaking research of Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan (Why Civil Resistance Works), we came to the conclusion that the only way to overcome entrenched political power is through extensive campaigns of large-scale nonviolent direct action."
It also says that, in January 2019, Roger Hallam wrote a 30-page document that planned two weeks of demonstrations in London.

Extinction Rebellion is also known as "XR".

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Presumably the two weeks of protest in London was held between April 14, 2019 to May 1, 2019.

heartoflondonbid.london/events/extinct…
Roger Hallam also wrote "Wake up, Britain. We’ve been betrayed over Heathrow" in The Guardian on June 27, 2018.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Hallam had recently done a 14-day hunger strike as part of the organisation "Vote No Heathrow".

Extinction Rebellion has a habit of getting naked and gluing themselves to windows to... fight climate change? I'm not sure what the message is, I think I'd just see a naked person glued to a window and move on.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
Over 1,000 people were arrested in London during the 10 day protest in April 2019.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Okay, so Extinction Rebellion is addicted to gluing themselves to random things, including Jeremy Corbyn's home's fence.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Greta Thunberg spoke during the April protests to Extinction Rebellion, on April 21, 2019.

I'm surprised she's not a member actually, unless I haven't reached that part yet.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Why the glue!?

Farhana Yamin is an international environmental lawyer, who used her degree to glue herself to something.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Extinction Rebellion has two principles to help them:

1. "Tell the Truth"
2. "Act As If the Truth Is Real"

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
There are 38 cells of Extinction Rebellion based in America, which one located in New York City.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
Clare Farrell is one of the founders.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
Extinction Rebellion was partially founded by Gail Bradbrook, who spent 2 weeks doing psychadelic drugs before she met Hallam.

As you do.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
"They believed that it was possible for a relatively small group to bend the system to its demands."

"This approach certainly pisses a lot of people off at times, but the goal is not to win majority support, but to get a large enough minority..."

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
Roughly 20 people, including Bradbrook and Hallam, host talks in both private homes and town halls in something called "The Talk".
This is a video of "The Talk".

Extinction Rebellion works in conjunction with This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll, some kind of design place.

thisaintrocknroll.com
"One of these was Farhana Yamin, an environmental lawyer who negotiated the Paris climate accords..."

Farhana Yamin was the one who glued herself to Shell's, by the way, because when it doubt, glue yourself to something.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
Greta Thunberg gave a speech on October 31, 2018, which was a day of action for Extinction Rebellion in London.

This Medium article was written by "We Don't Have Time".

medium.com/wedonthavetime…
This is the website for "We Don't Have Time".

wedonthavetime.org
WeDontHaveTime AB is a Swedish company.

Directors: Anette Nordvall, Ingmar Rentzhog, David Olsson, Christian Emmertz, Stella Diesen, Gustav Stevenbeck...
Advisory Board for WeDontHaveTime: Andra Farhad, David JP Phillips, Tove Ahlstroem, Anna Svahn, Jak Toeroek, Daniela Rogosic, Sweta Chakraborty and Scott Amyx.

wedonthavetime.org/about-us
There is also the WeDontHaveTime Foundation, founded by Ingmar Rentzhog and David Olsson, with Cathy Orlando, Stuart Scott, Per-Espen Stoknes, Ingmar, Olsson and Jamie Margolin as directors.

wedonthavetime.org/about-us
Extinction Rebellion wants there to be an "International Rebellion" on October 7, 2019, after some climate talk at the United Nations in New York.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
"Extinction Rebellion has experienced explosive growth since April. The group now has more than 300 cells worldwide in nearly 60 countries, including nearly 40 in the United States."

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
America is also under threat from the GLUE APOCALYPSE.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
This is what ticked me about Extinction Rebellion, this idea of "totally rejecting formal hierarchies".

EVERY ORGANISATION HAS A HIERARCHY. You cannot avoid it. Even Anonymous had a hierarchy.

buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
On March 22, 2019, the Australia branch of Extinction Rebellion started.

precariousclimate.com/tag/extinction…
"Climate activists including Extinction Rebellion to receive £500,000 from US philanthropists"

independent.co.uk/environment/ex…
"Three wealthy donors – Trevor Neilson, Rory Kennedy and Aileen Getty – have launched the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) to help support school strikes and activism groups like Extinction Rebellion."

independent.co.uk/environment/ex…
This is the website for Climate Emergency Fund.

climateemergencyfund.org
Aileen Getty, one of the founders of the Climate Emergency Fund, is a donator of the Clinton Foundation, as discussed previously.

Climate Emergency Fund's board of directors includes Trevor Neilson, Rory Kennedy and Sarah Ezzy.

The advisory board is Aileen Getty, Bill McKibben, David Wallace-Wells, Katie Eder and Margaret Klein Salamon.

climateemergencyfund.org/about-us/
The record label company Ninja Tune is also a donator to Extinction Rebellion.

facebook.com/ExtinctionRebe…
There is a chapter of Extinction Rebellion in Poland, founded at the end of November 2018.

theguardian.com/world/2018/dec…
On July 19, 2019, Gail Bradbrook and Roger Hallam published the article "As co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, we've made many mistakes - but now is the time for collective action, not recriminations" in The Telegraph.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/1…
Apparently other higher leaders (See? Hierarchy.) of Extinction Rebellion are Tasmin Osmond, the granddaughter of Sir Thomas Lees, and Laura Reeves.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
Compassionate Revolution seems to have been around since at least May 2015.

risingupuk.wordpress.com/page/2/
Compassionate Revolution Limited was incorporated on June 3, 2015, with Gail Bradbrook, George Barda and Roger Hallam connected to it.

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/096226…
Compassionate Revolution was "officially" founded on June 27, 2015 in Stroud.

This is a video of George Barda.

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