Below are some images from actions in the last few months, starting with the most recent. On 8th October we displayed our banner briefly in three locations in Berkhamsted, starting with the Shell garage.
PRESS RELEASE FROM XR DACORUM
On 8th October local members of Extinction Rebellion Dacorum took a banner warning NO FUTURE IN FOSSIL FUELS to three locations in Berkhamsted: the Shell garage, a bridge over the canal and the castle.
Sue Hampton of Berkhamsted said, “This is a message for every day that emissions and temperatures continue to rise while we burn fossil fuels. A recent YouGov survey commissioned by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association found that 79% of Brits support their pension being allocated to renewable energy projects. And it’s a message for today because at the Tory Party conference Kemi Badenoch is talking about more drilling in the North Sea and abandoning our Net Zero commitments. This would be climate criminality.”
Molly Berry of Tring continued, “Of course the political party given non-stop media coverage has the same intention of hastening the kind of climate chaos here that we are seeing all around the world. Reform’s anti-science tub thumping is a threat to all of us. Our banner is a reminder that we must transition to renewable energy fast.”
In September we visited Howden Insurance in Hemel with a message about its enabling of the fossil fuel industry that is killing us.
Sue played a part in Christian Climate Action’s cathedral tower occupations on 13th September. Here she is atop Winchester Cathedral as part of the Stop Crucifying Creation campaign.
In August we returned to Barclays Bank in Hemel.
Several of us have also been supporting Defend our Juries’ Lift the Ban campaign. Here is Sue before her second arrest for defying the ban. Here she says why:
“I was a peace activist before I fully recognised how terrifying the climate crisis is. I believe in nonviolent direct action as a powerful way to bring about change, and watching the horror being perpetrated in Gaza – triggered after decades of injustice by the appalling violence of Hamas – I support any peaceful protest which is aimed at stopping the war machine and at drawing attention to a) genocide and b) the UK government’s complicity (evidenced by supplying arms and intelligence to Israel). Having read widely I considered the proscription decision a big mistake so I acted to call on it to be lifted. On the day this photo was taken we heard, over seven hours, a heartbreaking litany of names of Palestinian children killed in the last year.”
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