Time and date: 8.30am on Tuesday 29th OctoberLocation: Howden Group, 144 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 2HG Extinction Rebellion Scotland will hold a rally outside various offices of insurance companies that enable new fossil fuel projects, beginning with the Howden Group.Activists dressed as zombies will perform a Killer Driller ‘discobedience’ ...
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Two activists with Extinction Rebellion Glasgow were sentenced today to serve 300 community hours for breaking the windows at Barclays in Glasgow to demand an end to its funding of the fossil fuel crisis.
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XR Scotland statement on Scottish Government scrapping its critical 2030 climate commitments. Dismayed, disappointed, angry but we are not surprised. This decision has been years in the making. In a year when scientists are warning us that the world will pass the 1.5C threshold, the Scottish Government has blown all ...
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In an unprecedented act of coordinated international climate protest, activists from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are taking action today in solidarity with each other against new North Sea oil and gas extraction. Under the campaign North Sea Fossil Free acts of civil disobedience are happening ...
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It was XR Scotland’s turn on Friday to join Insure Our Future’s global week of action and send a clear message to the insurance industry. Stop insuring new and fossil fuel projects and insure our future instead. We ...
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Climate campaigners from Extinction Rebellion Scotland, Divest Lothian and Global Justice Now Scotland staged a dance protest outside the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association Conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday morning to highlight the flawed climate risk models used by pension funds and to call on the funds to stop investing ...
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XR UK and XR Scotland are joining Insure our Future’s global week of action.
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A new water-based group, XR Scotland Orcas, is taking to the seas to act for a better future for our planet and our communities.
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As the climate crisis happens all around us with heatwaves, droughts, floods, sea level rise and wild fires we (the mass of the population) still do nothing about it.
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Just because it’s not happening here (in the UK) , it doesn’t mean it’s not happening all over the planet.