Activists, dressed as Santa, are delivering sacks of coal to party HQs in Edinburgh, one sack for each year that they miss the XR target of net zero carbon by 2025. Starting at 8.30am on Wednesday morning, activists from XR Edinburgh gathered outside the Scottish Parliament, dressed as Santa Claus. They ...

Extinction Rebellion Youth and Universities Glasgow will hold a protest outside of the BBC Scotland Headquarters from 12.00 – 3.00pm to demand that they change the way that they report on the climate emergency, calling out the main perpetrators of the crisis. They demand that: The BBC openly challenges the ...

A banner reading ‘No education on a dead planet’ was dropped from the Reading Room at the University of Glasgow as part of a nationwide day of action by the Extinction Rebellion Universities movement.The banner was dropped from the reading room at 1pm. The activists remained nearby, to inform passers-by ...

Kenyan High Commission, London  Extinction Rebellion Scotland takes action in solidarity with the Sengwer Indigenous People of Kenya, who have experienced horrific human rights abuses at the hands of Kenyan Government Agencies Thousands of homes have been torched by the Kenyan Government as marginalised indigenous community forcibly evicted from their ...

Financial District action which XR Scotland took part in yesterday XR Scotland are dismayed that the Metropolitan Police implemented a city-wide ban on peaceful protest by Extinction Rebellionin London last night. Scotland Yard warned XR activists that they faced arrest and prosecution unless they halted the peaceful climate change action ...

The “Power In Truth” site, comprised of XR Scotland, Cumbria and the North East of England have moved on from their site by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy but our actions targeting the fossil fuel industry have not ended. We are causing disruption to the 6th ...

Extinction Rebellion Scotland/ Cumbria/ NE England Power In Truth – Site 6October International RebellionDay 3 The day began with a short action outside the Oil & Money Conference, which costs £5k a ticket. Activists held a banner reading TELL THE TRUTH and read from reports focusing ...

Extinction Rebellion Scotland/ Cumbria/ NE England Power In Truth – Site 6October International RebellionWhat’s your plan, BEIS?  This morning at 6am outside the Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), six activists locked themselves by the arm into oil barrels filled with ...

Extinction Rebellion Scotland/ Cumbria/ NE England Power In Truth – Site 6October International RebellionThe moment of truth arrives. Email: xrscotlandpress@gmail.comPhone: 07507888837 / 07555956450www.twitter.com/scotlandxrwww.facebook.com/xrscotlandwww.instagram.com/xrscotland This morning (7th October ...

Extinction Rebellion interrupted a key Glasgow City Council meeting this morning, denouncing their proposed climate action plan as ‘too little, too late’. Protestors demanded that the Council ‘Tell Glasgow the truth’ about Climate Breakdown, achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and set up a Climate Citizens Assembly in ...