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Nov 14 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
BREAKING: #Barclays faces biggest ever day of climate protests

👉 Over 100 #Barclays branches across the UK targetted

👉 Windows cracked & covered in posters, fake oil & paint

👉 Actions & outreach continuing throughout the day

👉 Press release: extinctionrebellion.uk/2022/11/14/thi…
#Barclays is the UK’s and Europe’s largest financier of fossil fuels. Since 2021, when the International Energy Agency concluded there could be #NoNewOil, gas or coal development if the world was to reach net zero by 2050, Barclays has invested $19.583B in fossil fuels.
Extinction Rebellion, along with other groups, are calling for Barclays to end all investment in fossil fuel expansion. In March 2020 #Greenpeace activists shut down nearly 100 Barclays branches in protest against #Barclays support for fossil fuels.

Today’s coordinated nationwide action is an escalation of Extinction Rebellion’s ongoing campaign against banks including #Barclays who are bankrolling climate breakdown.

On 30 march 2021, @gailbradbrook broke the windows of a Barclays branch in Stroud
In a week’s time, starting on 21 November, 7 women from #ExtinctionRebellion are due to appear before a jury at The Crown Court at Southwark, charged with criminal damage for nonviolently breaking windows at #Barclays UK headquarters in Canary Wharf.
🚨THIS IS AN EMERGENCY

@Antonioguterres said: “Some government and business leaders are saying one thing – but doing another. Simply put, they are lying.” We have no choice but to take action ourselves.

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The arrest of several journalists this week sparked concern for press freedom. But while the state increase repression, the papers and right wing think tanks want the police to go further & faster.

What led us to this point, and what was the press's part in it? 🧵
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But @TheSun journalists who knew about Just Stop Oil weren't arrested. They were invited to take photos of a nonviolent protesters front door being smashed in.

Why? 🧵
This week journalists, photographers, and film makers were arrested during @JustStop_Oil protests.

But if this was just a mistake in the heat of the moment, why was this photographers house searched while he remained in custody for hours?

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Oct 30
🔥 HAPPENING NOW @GretaThunberg
@southbankcentre 🔥

"Our leaders have completely failed. We are never going back to normal. The climate & biosphere are breaking down... What we call 'normal" is an extreme system based on exploitation of people & planet." #TellTheTruth
"We will never give up. We will never stop fighting for the living world" a powerful call to action. Profound truth telling from @GretaThunberg tonight
"We need everyone to stop everything, we need billions of climate activists" @GretaThunberg
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Oct 29, 2021
When the 68 uprising graffitied Paris with “Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!” who thought this call to action would meet its alter ego years later in the UK?

For what is Insulate Britain if not: Be Impossible, Demand the Realistic?

🧵A #Thread.
In the face of the #climate emergency happening now, XR recognises the need for disruptive actions that highlight the severity of the crisis. Insulate Britain is playing a vital role in shifting the Overton Window around public awareness and urgent government action. #ActNow
The recent attempt to ban a form of protest from happening anywhere in the UK is a warning to all of us who dare to stand up for truth; the UK government is coming for us all. It is also a complete vindication of our resistance.

#RightToProtest #RightToCare #RightToLife
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Oct 28, 2021
BREAKING: Judge finds 3 guilty, despite their nonviolent act against the crime of dangerous and damaging denial and delay coming out of the "think-tanks" and lobbyists at 55 Tufton Street in a #ClimateCrisis that is happening now.

#DenialOnTrial #TellTheTruth #ClimateJustice
Guilty of criminal damage, they all received 6 month conditional discharge and were ordered to pay reduced court and compensation costs totalling of £200. Unusual as this is far less than the claimed damage caused.

The magistrates praised them for their “openness and honesty”.
More info in press release here:
extinctionrebellion.uk/2021/10/28/tuf…

#DenialOnTrial #TellTheTruth #ExtinctionRebellion
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Oct 27, 2021
CLIMATE INACTION = RACISM

Hey @Guardian @GdnSaturday @GdnReadersEd, well done for the article on climate activists. But how come there’s 19 people with placards and 1 without?

You know, the 1 black person, Elise Yarde.

Don’t you like what she has to say?

🧵thread by Elise 1/6
When I realised I was the only person without a placard I felt so let down. I experience this shit way too often. Why am I the only black person in the article? Why does my message get silenced? Why don’t you want to talk about the fact that climate change is a racial issue? 2/6
Can’t you see that not noticing when you treat black people differently = racism.

Omitting their sign deliberately = racism.

Not printing the placard because you think it will offend your white middle class @guardian readership = racism.

🧵by Elise 3/6
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Sep 4, 2021
As the #ImpossibleRebellion draws to a close, the analysis will inevitably begin.
One of the things that has been clear though is a shift in the way XR is being covered in the 🇬🇧 🗞.
Like a samba-dancing mosquito🦟, our persistence is paying off. 1/7

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This piece by the @FT’s @henrymance discovers a quality long since thought extinct in the UK press: nuance – and it’s a joy to read. Henry *gets* us. And in a world of ‘but China’ 🇨🇳and ‘Gail’s car’ 💀🚙💨 that’s a step change in the narrative from the streets of shame. 2/7
We never started #ExtinctionRebellion thinking we were ‘right’🤓📚, that we had all the answers. Nor that we were going to be the people 👩🏽‍🚒🚑who sorted anything out. This shit is way too complex, interrelated and 🤯 for the kind of quick-fix activism of old. 3/7
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