Extinction Rebellion Midlands

Burning Ballroom: A group of people dressed in black dress dance, each alone staring into a phone, while flames rise around them

Oily Monster: A man dressed in a black carries a slick, shiny monster puppet, banners either side read 'Insure Our Survival' and 'Stop feeding oil monsters'

Planet Medics: A group dressed in medical scrubs carry a model of the earth on a stretcher

Red Rebels: A Mourner dressed in a black dress and hood leads a procession of 'Red Rebels' dressed in red robes

Rebels out in all their creative, colourful glory in Birmingham today. Calling for insurers to Insure Our Survival by ending insurance for fossil fuel projects.
Groups from across the Midlands bringing the theatre and creative activism 💚
@xrbirmingham @xrnottm @xr_warwickshire @xr.wyreforest

10.07.2025 14:34 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 Join us, Hugh, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @georgemcgavin.bsky.social—and campaigners across the UK—calling for #REALChange for a better Britain.

✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament.

✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk

🐝 #CANBill

09.05.2025 15:08 — 👍 135    🔁 163    💬 3    📌 11

Nature-friendly farmers, food system workers, migrant farmworkers, hospitality workers, consumers, climate & food justice activists marched in #London under the banner ‘Food In Our Hands’ in a protest organised by the Landworkers Alliance @landworkersuk.bsky.social
#LandJusticeNow
#NoFoodNoFuture

27.04.2025 09:45 — 👍 37    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 0

MAKING TROUBLE COSTS MONEY.
GOOD TROUBLE, THAT IS!

🚧 Lock-ons, blockades, banners, bail – it adds up. Help keep actions bold, brave & impossible to ignore

💚 Donate now, fund people power, & have your donation matched until midday on 29th April!

⚡Donate: xrb.link/W7bZr32

#TheBigGive #RebelForLife

25.04.2025 07:21 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

Roger Hallam is being unlawfully held in prison after an appeal at the Royal Courts made him eligible for immediate release under house arrest.

All co-defendants have been released, but the probation service is blocking his freedom

TIMES: www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

@just-stopoil.bsky.social

14.04.2025 12:08 — 👍 58    🔁 46    💬 5    📌 1

📢 Will you help us be heard?

We'll welcome the participants with a silent protest in the morning, holding banners and placards (message: "they won't let me attend").

And during their lunch break, we're planning on making some noise so bring your drum if you have one 🥁

21.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A number of environmental activists have applied to attend and they have all been refused.

It appears there won't be a valid environmental voice at the conference, just some greenwashing 😤

21.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤔 What for?

Lincolnshire County Council are running an energy conference and they have invited the CEO of Heyco, a US oil giant who's been trying to drill for oil and gas around Lincolnshire.

21.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of protesters holding banners of different colours. The main banner says "the science is clear, no new oil"

🔥 @xrlincoln.bsky.social NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT 🔥

Can you spare some time on Tuesday 25th and join their action?

📍Where?

Isaac Newton Building, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN67TS

⏰ 7:45-9am: silent protest
⏰ 1-2:30pm: noisy protest

21.02.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Axe Drax protest THIS FRIDAY
12.30-2pm
Green Heart Park, near the new library

The government has made the terrible decision to keep subsidising Drax power station until 2031

Join us for a pop-up action - we’ll have flags and placards - just come along to help.

#AxeDrax @biofuelwatch.bsky.social

11.02.2025 09:27 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

UK accused of undermining democratic rights with climate protest crackdown British director of Human Rights Watch attacks ‘dangerous hypocrisy’ of government

Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting “a dangerous precedent” around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK director of Human Rights Watch has said.

Labour government ‘hypocrisy’ over human rights and international law:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

17.01.2025 10:13 — 👍 71    🔁 52    💬 3    📌 0

No-one is free until all of us are free ✊🏽

Climate and social activists rallied in solidarity with the #WomanLifeFreedom movement, condemning gender apartheid and demanding justice for Iranian student Ahou Daryaei

#EndGenderApartheid
#AhouDaryaei #StopExecutions

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03.12.2024 18:55 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

We used it here too, great song 😁
youtu.be/Bs3Wz95FZY0?...

28.11.2024 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'How long until we see scenes like Valencia, where hundreds died?’ Activist reacts to extreme Northampton flooding 'How long until we see scenes similar to those in Valencia where hundreds died?' says environmental activist following extreme flooding in Northampton says environmental activist following extreme flo...

There are 2 Northampton men sitting in prison for their involvement in nonviolent protest to try & pressure the gvmt into preventing this type of devastation to people’s lives, the disruption caused by not acting on climate change is becoming more apparent.
www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/environ...

26.11.2024 13:26 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Family includes everyone! ❤️

17.11.2024 21:40 — 👍 32985    🔁 22214    💬 809    📌 923

🚨NOVEMBER 27th, Solidarity with those who opposed the imprisonment of asylum seekers on board the infamous prison barge, Bibby Stockholm. Four on trial🚢

📌 Join us at Stratford Magistrates Court, London, E15 4SB
November 27th, from 8:45am (for 1 hour)

#FreePoliticalPrisoners

18.11.2024 18:21 — 👍 13    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Bluesky 👋

14.11.2024 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0