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 ...

Callum, student and Extinction Rebellion Stirling rebel, describes his experience as one of the duo who stayed locked on for 14 hours in an attempt to hold the PowerInTruth site. At 5am, he was the last rebel arrested. He wrote this moving account for ‘the encouragement of rebels still standing ...

This rebellion has caused disruption globally, bringing the attention of the world to the climate crisis like never before. Here are some of the inspiring actions that have been carried out by our friends across the world. For a rundown of XR Scotland’s actions in London read Power in ...

Monday 7th October At around 9am, Scottish rebels, alongside fellow activists from Cumbria and the North East of England, blocked the entrance roads to the junction outside Westminster Abbey and the Government Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The chosen theme of our site, Power In Truth, reflects our areas’ ...

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 ...