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🌎 We are #ExtinctionRebellion in Cambridge, UK. Proud conscientious protectors. 🌍 Rebel against the government on behalf of all life. DMs open.

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XRUK-Actions @xruk-actions.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“The repression that environmental activists who use peaceful civil disobedience are currently facing in Europe is a major threat to democracy." Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, 2024 youtu.be/hbgAZk7TL9I?... 1/2
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Dissent In Danger - What is happening to our right to protest and why does it matter?
YouTube video by Zoe Broughton
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The attack on protest rights, with psychiatrist and writer Dr. Lynne Jones OBE, former Editor in Chief of the BMJ Dr Fiona Godlee, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law and Justice Richard Vogler, and me chairing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgA...
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Dissent In Danger - What is happening to our right to protest and why does it matter?
YouTube video by Zoe Broughton
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@XRBristol @xrbristol.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
action.greenpeace.org.uk/renewable-re... 4/
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Power the UK with homegrown renewables
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@XRBristol @xrbristol.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"Gas prices have surged since Iran conflict began. The way power markets work (under powerful Labour MPs) means gas almost always sets the wholesale electricity price. During periods of zero-carbon operation, Neso expects wholesale prices to be low" www.thetimes.com/article/01d7... 1/
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Britain’s grid could run without fossil fuels for first time since 1882
This Easter could mark a milestone for the country’s transformation of the electricity system, though the exact moment depends on our mercurial weather
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Swiss far right "People's Party" (which appears in the Epstein files in his communications with Steve Bannon) is our country's largest party. It is also campaigning in favour of a straight up white nationalist ecofascist initiative - called the "sustainability initiative."
White family in Swiss mountainsBlack stick figures on Swiss map.
Swiss cultural symbols presented as being under threat.Headscarf-wearing woman with Swiss passport.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
mediasovereignty.org/petition/
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Parliamentary Petition Do YOU want Britain to take back control of our media and democracy from the international billionaires who have hijacked it?They use it to force our politicians to act again…
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'Two pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested for violating contentious new Queensland hate-speech laws, with one of them allegedly saying the banned phrase “from the river to the sea”.' 🍉🙅‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Two protesters arrested on first day of Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban
Arrests occurred after pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside state parliament within hours of new laws taking effect
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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#Climate breakdown shrinks the amount of time people can safely go about their lives. Rising temperatures, driven by #fossilfuel burning make it hard even for many young, healthy adults to do basic physical activities, such as housework or walking up stairs www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds
Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Advert for an event about protest rights in the UK, Monday 16 March 6-8 pm, Cambridge Quaker Meeting House, Jesus Lane.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds
Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/12/2025
The average thickness of #Arctic sea ice reached a new all-time minimum this year (in this dataset)... 📉 More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of daily mean Arctic sea ice thickness for each year from 1979 to 2025 using shades of red, white and blue. A seasonal cycle is shown with thicker ice in late winter and thinner ice in late summer. A long-term decreasing trend is also visible. Data is from PIOMAS v2.1.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'I've never really liked the doomerist framwork of, oh, we have only 5 years or 10 years or whatever the number is to tackle climate change. Humans are also extraordinarily creative and adaptive creatures, at least that's what I see time and time again in history'.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Cambridge Antarctic Rights Network! Big event on the evening of December 1, with Natalie Bennett, Paul Powlesland and others. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-voice-fo...
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A Voice For Antarctica
Join us to mark the global launch of Antarctic Rights: an evening of presentations, performance and movement building
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/11/2025
Super Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday. At least two deaths have been reported and over a million people were pre-emptively evacuated from their homes. nyti.ms/4hMp3TC
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jonathon-p...
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Jonathon Porritt: 'Love Anger & Betrayal'. Speaker Tour, Cambridge
Jonathon Porritt introduces his new book which asks: "What good are science and rational persuasion if no one is paying attention?"
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 01/09/2025
The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴
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Honest Government Ad | Visit Norway!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Cambridge activist Andrew Dames, walking from Shetland to London to protest against fossil fuels, has arrived in York! www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2542855...
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Pilgrim on 700-mile 'save the earth' walk to London calls in at York
A pilgrim with a 21st century “save the earth” message has called in at York during his 700-mile trek. Quaker and climate activist Andrew Dames…
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Protest outside Great St Mary’s, Cambridge
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
350 signatures! including many plucky fighters from the tuition fee wars of 2010-11. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter re Chancellorship
Open Letter re the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge The next Chancellor will, we are told, ‘play a vital part in Cambridge’s public-facing activities, fundraising, and in providing advi...
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"This is not just a usual British warm summer and it's being driven by climate change." 💯 @robertnpalmer.bsky.social on @lbcnews.bsky.social
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
tomorrow!
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Cambridge-associated people, please keep signing/sharing this letter against Lord Browne's candidacy for Chancellor. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter re Chancellorship
Open Letter re the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge The next Chancellor will, we are told, ‘play a vital part in Cambridge’s public-facing activities, fundraising, and in providing advi...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This MUST happen www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying
Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Tonight in Cambridge!
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XR Salisbury @xrsalisbury.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
To quote Ricky from the excellent Council Estate Media: ‘Splashing paint on a plane is terrorism and killing 20,000-plus children is self-defence. Welcome to upside-down world.’
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE RIVER CAM tomorrow in Cambridge -- if you have a drum, come at 4 to make some noise!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow
The judge wanted us to show remorse, but I can’t apologise for fighting the climate disaster, writes Indigo Rumbelow, co-founder of Just Stop Oil
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse
We have an urgent problem to solve.​ Our societies and progressive political organizations are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They have been there for some time [...]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Make the climate emergency a lawful excuse in criminal cases
Make the climate emergency a lawful excuse in criminal damage and other such cases.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
On Saturday, we held a mock funeral for the 1.5C climate target agreed 10 years ago in Paris. In a decade, we have burst through 1.5 and could hit 2C of warming by the mid-2030s. Governments have failed to keep the world safe from deadly temperature rises. They are killing us.
Mourners march through Christ's Pieces with a coffinPeople stand in a circle on Christ's Pieces, some wearing sandwich boardsPall bearers with a coffin reading 'Inaction = Death'Pall bearers carry a coffin reading '1.5 is Dead, Act Now', with an XR symbol
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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U.K. Activists Stage Mock Funeral for 1.5°C Climate Target
Extinction Rebellion and other groups held a mock funeral in the U.K. for the 1.5°C climate target to mark governments’ failure and demand action.
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OliviaMLondon 🍉 @oliviamlondon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Was a wonderful action. Red Rebels, drums, singing, poetry & politics. Strong impact on passers by. 🙏🏽
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
1.5 IS DEAD… Come and mourn its passing: 📅 Sat 10 May, 13.30–16.00 📍 Meet on Christ's Pieces, Cambridge, nr Wesley Church (look for XR flags) ⚰ Join XR Cambridge in a funeral march round the city, led by Red Rebels and ending with speeches, poetry, songs and art.
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
FUNERAL FOR 1.5 A funeral march through Cambridge city centre, led by Red Rebels and bookended by speeches, poetry, songs lamenting the death of the 2015 Paris climate goal of restricting global heating to 1.5C (or 'well below' 2C). Saturday 10 May, Christ's Pieces, 1.30 - 3.30
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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Register Now – The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism – YouTube
We are currently witnessing the dismantling of environmental policies and a reversal of climate commitments on a large scale. B...
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My exchange of letters with a billionaire 'activist investor' who has forced BP to go back on its already pitiful climate targets, in pursuit of more $$$ for shareholders. jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/c...
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Correspondence with activist investors
letters from the fossil record Note: Paul Singer is an American billionaire who founded Elliott Management, a vulture fund that invests in distressed debt and engages in activist campaigns. He is a…
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Once again - utilising geoengineering while continuing to pump out carbon is akin to giving a poisoned patient an antidote while administering more poison Madness And who honestly thinks the FF corporations will NOT use this as an excuse to expand operations? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We passed the 1.5C climate threshhold. We must now explore extreme options | Sir David King
We do not have the luxury of rejecting solutions before we have thoroughly investigated their risks, trade-offs and feasibility
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ORCA @orca4el.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A shady Cambridge organisation… a partner silently removed from the books… a plucky band of troublemakers… it’s the stuff of a mystery drama 🎞️ Find out the latest news from our campaign in a silent film people are calling “fantastic” “hilarious” and “a little bit offensive to the royal family”
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Massive hailstorm hits Martano, Salento in Italy blocking some roads and leaving motorists stranded. Flooding also reported....
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Greater São Paulo, Brazil this afternoon....🌊
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Flooding at Santo André train station in São Paulo, Brazil this afternoon. Civil Defence has issued a "severe alert" for the region, with a high risk of flooding and landslides.....
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ORCA @orca4el.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🚨CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚨 We've given some extra attention on this page towards Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership in the last week following the Nature Action Conference hosted by UNEP and Uni of Cam. But we’re not stopping at disrupting just one conference… #SustainableLies
A purple, orance and green swirly background. In the middle, there is a picture of two people holding a banner that says "CISL: Leading in Greenwashing". Their faces are covered with little orcas.

The text at the top of the graphic says "CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT" and below the picture it says "Sustainable Lies? CUT ALL TIES". Below that, there are two logos. One of them is the logo of ORCA, the other is the campaign logo, which also says Sustainable Lies? CUT ALL TIES.Another page using a swirly green, orange and purple background. The ORCA and Sustainable Lies campaign logos are at the top. 

The text says "What is the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)? 

- An institute within the University of Cambridge
- They work with companies including these ones (more on these companies later...) [this point is next to the logos of Coca-Cola, TotalEnergies, AXA, AngloAmerican and BP
- They claim to be working towards a "sustainable future"

Here are our reasons for targeting them:
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Day 3 Vigil of our vigil for Dr Patrick Hart at the GMC offices, London ... Read more - tinyurl.com/275uhoyx
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is what happens to you in the US for writing an op-ed now. RIP first amendment.
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DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the "humanity of all people"
Rumeysa Ozturk, a student at Tufts University, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-auhtoring an op-ed
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Photos from today's protest at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, a festival of greenwashing for companies including RWE, Eni, and Drax.
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