Showing posts with label Extinction Rebellion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extinction Rebellion. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Climate Change and Why We Should Panic voiced by Keira Knightley | Extinction Rebellion Video




 
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British Academy Film Award and Academy Award nominee, Keira Knightley, OBE, has come out in support of Extinction Rebellion. Keira has lent her voice to defend the climate and tell the truth in this new, short film that summarises the crisis from how we got here, and what we must do now. The animation shows why government must enter crisis mode and choose a different path than the one we are on because it will lead us to extinction. Keira joins Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, William Dafoe, Javier Bardem, Paloma Faith, Radiohead and all other people who know that we are facing an unprecedented global emergency.
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Website: https://Rebellion.Earth World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups: http://bit.ly/2wri78B 

Wednesday, 30 October 2019

George Monbiot speech at Extinction Rebellion Protest in London





Guardian journalist George Monbiot addresses the Extinction Rebellion climate change protest blocking the road outside parliament, London, UK. 31/10/2018.

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

I'm an Extinction Rebellion protester and I'll be disrupting your work commute. Here's why: ABC

"This week thousands of ordinary Australians, and many thousands more across the globe, will disrupt major cities with rolling blockades to draw attention to the climate crisis. 

They will do so under the name of Extinction Rebellion (or XR for short), a new environmental movement. 

As a result of their actions, your life may be disrupted. You may be forced to wait or find another route. You may even become angry.
Inevitably these protesters, myself included, will be reduced by some news media to just another bunch of climate activists.
I want to tell you though, that term "climate activist", whilst true, is limiting. 

It certainly doesn't capture the truth of who I am or why I joined XR. It doesn't tell you that I am a mother of two small children. Or that I have lived a law-abiding life."

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Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires : NASA

 

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No time to be polite about climate: Eureka Street


............ "Today, most people regard the Greensboro Four as heroes. But what would Peter Dutton have said to them?

This week, the Home Affairs Minister called for mandatory sentences for climate protesters who broke the law, claimed that activists who inconvenienced others should be 'named and shamed', and declared that those receiving social security should have their payments stripped. Senior Nationals minister David Littleproud agreed. He, too, denounced protesters, urging magistrates to 'slip into them'. 'What this should be is about respect. When they don't, we've got to call them out.'

All the same arguments were made in Greensboro in 1960. Woolworth's was, after all, just going about its business. Segregation was not only legal — it was mandated. By demanding to be served, the Greensboro protesters (who were, incidentally, like the climate strikers very young) were both breaking the law themselves and asking the staff to join them in criminality.

Their sit-in disrupted normal routines, just as much as any Extinction Rebellion stunt does. The Woolworth's lunch counter was a busy facility, providing food for thousands of hungry workers each day. As the protests spread, they inevitably inconvenienced apolitical men and women who were just trying to get on with their lives. That's why, throughout the south, prosecutors generally charged those defying segregation with crimes like 'disturbing the peace' or 'disorderly conduct'.

So would Littleproud have said that the Greensboro Four 'lacked respect'? If not, why not?"

Read the complete Eureka Street article 

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George Monbiot "It's time to be scientifically realistic" | Extinction Rebellion

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Friday, 4 October 2019

George Monbiot "It's time to be scientifically realistic" | Extinction Rebellion





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"You can't negotiate with Science. You can't wish away the laws of thermodynamics. The science tells us the limits within which we ought to live. Now 50 years ago the Situationists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situati... who were so active in the street protest then coined the slogan 'be realistic, demand the impossible'. 
Let's repurpose it, 'be scientifically realistic, demand the politically impossible." , George Monbiot https://www.Monbiot.com/ 
The Rebellion will take place across the globe from 7th October. 
Sign up for London here https://Rebellion.earth/international... 
Worldwide actions are planned in other major cities. 
See if your city is listed https://Rebellion.earth/international... or, if your city is not listed, then please visit our global site https://Rebellion.Global/ to get in touch with your local group. If not now, when? ...... If not you, who? Everybody now!