XR Nottingham
@xrnottm
Local group of Extinction Rebellion UK. Join our email list or WhatsApp Community: #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth #ActNow #ClimateEmergency #Nottingham
Coming up...Sherwood, Mapperley, Sneinton, Bingham, Arnold, Lady Bay, Netherfield, Long Eaton and MORE ! Nottingham: linktr.ee/pebnotts UKwide: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
Have you seen it yet? People's Emergency Briefing film by @nebriefing.bsky.social Screenings in Nottingham going really well - 37 organised within 10miles of city centre! Nottingham screenings: linktr.ee/pebnotts UK map: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
WHEN CLEANING RIVERS BECOMES RESISTANCE @paulpowlesland.bsky.social, an environmental lawyer and activist, shares the story of how removing over 200 bags of rubbish from a polluted river led to an investigation by the Environment Agency 🗓 Wed 8th July 18:00-19:00 ➡️ Register here: xrb.link/as4UUF5
BIG GREEN WEEK FILMS AT MAMMOTH If you’re interested/concerned/angry/hopeful/bored/ignoring the climate crisis, head to Nottingham’s one and only Climate Action Cinema (Mammoth, in Hockley) as they’re showing 7 seriously uplifting films this week. mammothcinema.uk
The UK Government plans to remove the right to trial by jury for thousands of criminal cases. The power should be with the people. With the jury. Not with a state appointed judge. Get involved here: thejuryalliance.uk/jury-support... @thejuryalliance.bsky.social
Leap with the hares, unfold with the flowers, fly with the bees, plunge into hidden habitats and meditate - with this month’s selection of top reads. Writers Rebel - April recommendations > rebellibrary.com/april-26/
The UK shows no real climate leadership - unpick the numbers - include shipping and aviation and imported goods.... and our achievements are not all you might have been told. Watch the full briefing from @kevinclimate.bsky.social at the @nebriefing.bsky.social 👀 youtu.be/rI8z6A0c5Q4?...
NATIONAL EMERGENCY BRIEFING 1.5°C is effectively gone. We risk a world “far beyond the safe zone for nurturing civilisation”. The time for non-radical solutions has past - Prof Kevin Anderson 🎥 Full briefing : xrb.link/YO16G1Xq1 🎥 Shorter overview : xrb.link/aD40Lv #ABetterWorldIsPossible
Fossil fuel execs, media moguls, bankers and politicians who dance the waltz around glued to their phones making their fossil fuel deals, hoarding their profits, continuing business as usual as the siren sounds until the world burns around them. #EndFossilFuels #InsureOurSurvival #ClimateEmergency
Take action today! Watch your donation double in impact instantly. Extinction Rebellion UK is part of #TheBigGive Green Match Fund! Your donation will be matched pound for pound! Donate now: xrb.link/uY1dA291Z With thanks to #GowerStreet #TheBigGive #GreenMatchFund #ExtinctionRebellion
The words of Kier Starmer… If only he had been talking about the climate and ecological emergency!
£2million per DAY from our energy bills to subsidise burning of trees. #AxeDrax NOW xrb.link/uO51rHF64OR
The Government subsidises Drax power station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter around £2m/day. This money comes from ‘green levy’ from your energy bill by deeming it renewable energy. Let Ed MIliband know that he should #DumpDrax Take Action today: xrb.link/uO51rHF64OR
🌳🔥Drax is the UK’s single largest carbon emitter, harming forests, biodiversity and communities around the world. We need to fund real climate action, not Drax’s dirty scam. @Ed_Miliband 🌍🚫 #StopBurningTrees #DumpDrax
Axe Drax protest THIS FRIDAY 12.30-2pm Green Heart Park, near the new library The government has made the terrible decision to keep subsidising Drax power station until 2031 Join us for a pop-up action - we’ll have flags and placards - just come along to help. #AxeDrax @biofuelwatch.bsky.social
🫂 Join us for our new monthly pub social! Thursday 6th February From 5pm @ The Angel - in the brewery room An opportunity for regular rebels to connect and for new folks to meet us, hear about recent actions and find out how to get more involved. Accessible room, great vegan menu.
Day-one executive orders likely to include: Expand onshore and offshore oil drilling and fossil fuel extraction, increase drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and greenlight immediate fracked gas exports. Withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change. #DoomLoop
"Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels", writes Tom Hardy morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rene...