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 ...

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 ...

On Friday the 20th September, people across the world responded to the call of the youth climate strikers to join them to protest against global inaction on the climate crisis, with millions of people walking out of school and work to stand together.

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 ...

A banner reading ‘Change is Coming’ was dropped in front of the main gate of the University of Glasgow during the university’s fresher’s fair by Extinction Rebellion Glasgow University students, as part of the launch of the XR Universities movement. The banner was hung over the main gate at 1pm ...