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Protester Miriam Robinson said the group must "get right up in people's grills" to convince governments to take firm action on climate change. In Sydney on Tuesday, six people were arrested while pretending to be dead bees at Hyde Park while 38 protesters were arrested on Broadway teh day before. The day before, 11 protesters were arrested. In Melbourne on October 8, police arrested 59 protesters who blocked the intersection of Spring and Collins streets. In October, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth were among 60 cities around the world in the midst of seven days of "highly disruptive non-violent actions", which XR say is "to demand immediate action in the face of the climate and ecological emergency". A young woman stopped coal trains by suspending herself from a tree above the railway, and other protesters stormed the tracks, with one locking themselves to a train. XR emerged in March, in a protest lasting more than 24 hours at a railway affecting coal miner Adani, near Collinsville in far north Queensland. Credit:Robert Knapman How have they protested in Australia? The Red Rebels, a sub-group of the Extinction Rebellion, at a school strike in Sydney in September. The movement has since spread to countries including the US, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. Credit:AAPįollowing months of protests in London, organisers claimed victory there: on May 1, the British Parliament passed a national declaration of an environment and climate emergency. In April, they led 11 days of demonstrations and marches across London and Scotland: protesters again glued themselves to structures – and a train carriage at Canary Wharf station – as well as chaining themselves to Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn's front fence, and blocking intersections and bridges, leading to more than 1000 arrests.Ĭlimate activists block an intersection in Melbourne on October 7. This year they have occupied Scottish Parliament, held "swarming" roadblocks outside London Fashion Week venues, poured buckets of fake blood on the road outside Downing Street to represent the threatened lives of children, and undressed and glued themselves to the glass in the House of Commons viewing gallery during a debate on Brexit. Police officers talk to protesters on Waterloo Bridge in April. Weeks later, 6000 protesters blocked five bridges across the Thames and, on other occasions, members performed stunts such as super-gluing themselves to the gates of Downing Street. In October 2018, they issued a Declaration of Rebellion against the British government in London's Parliament Square. (The group says it is "deeply sorry" for any inconvenience this may cause the public.) They say they generally don't try to conceal their plans from police, except where they require an "element of surprise". Non-violent civil disobedience is central to XR's modus operandi. Credit:James Heappey What are its strategies and tactics? Naked activists glued themselves to the glass in the House of Commons in London in April. "We are strictly non-violent and reluctant law-breakers" from all ages and walks of life, they say. On its website, Extinction Rebellion expressly rejects the idea that it is "just a group of middle-class left-wing activists" or a "bunch of law-breaking anarchists or economic terrorists or eco-fascists". Its members were, in turn, influenced by the global Occupy movement, whose activists famously occupied New York's Wall Street financial centre in 2011 to protest against social and economic inequality. The group was founded in Britain in May 2018 by members of the social and environmental justice organisation Rising Up!, which evolved from a group called Compassionate Revolution. Credit:Dean Sewell How did Extinction Rebellion start? It also wants the government to form – and be led by the decisions of – a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice, including in Australia.Ī man has his wrist bent as he is detained by police during the "Spring Rebellion" on October 7 in Sydney. What does XR want? And when do they want it?Įxtinction Rebellion's Australian arm makes similar demands to its British parent, stating that the government must declare a climate and ecological emergency, and must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.