EXTINCTION REBELLION DACORUM PRESS RELEASE During COP fortnight on 20th November, a group from Dacorum XR visited the Shell garage on Berkhamsted high street. Sue Hampton, 68, of Berkhamsted, said, “Every time I have walked past the board proudly boasting
Recently XR Dacorum members: We continue to meet on Zoom most Tuesday evenings at 6:30 and are open to ideas for local actions. Our most recent protest before George was moved to the prison in Bovingdon was outside Barclays in
Some of us have been active recently: Stop Rosebank We completed our Saturday morning slots on Berko high street with Parents For Future – with this result, which we are trying to share with the candidates for the General Election
Stop Rosebank Every Saturday in May we will be joining with Parents for Future to ask passers by in Berkhamsted to oppose Rosebank and all new gas and oil. On 4th more than 25 people added their sticker on the
Local actions and news We are now hanging our banner, NO FUTURE IN FOSSIL FUELS, from Tring Park Bridge once a month. In spite of the bright cold this time we are very conscious that February was the warmest on
So we’ve just done another banner drop. We have nearly 400 members but we are in practice (action) a very small, closely connected group. We’d love more of you to join us in what is likely to supersede 2023 as
As 2024 approaches we remain a small core of active members within a large supportive group. Some of the core are involved with JSO too. Some are protesting regularly with Defend Our Juries. Some of us are behind Berkhamsted’s new
There’s been so much to motivate us as the government backtracks on Net Zero measures, ignores the Climate and Ecological Emergency at the Tory conference, plans new roads and gives the green light to Rosebank oil and gas field (combined
The heat records broken and floods around the world, which the media keeps fairly secret or doesn’t connect with climate change, should motivate us to talk to people and make whatever changes we can even as the summer holidays make
Banner drop We didn’t get a photo this time so are using last summer’s image, but we were back on the Tring Park bridge over the A41 with our NO FUTURE IN FOSSIL FUELS banner early on the last morning
On Thursday 11th May we met at the Quaker Meeting House in Berkhamsted with friends from Greenpeace (St Albans), Transition Town Berkhamsted, Animal Rising and Parents for Future. The meeting was well attended and supported by Rebels from XR Chesham.
We hope you made it to at least one of those four powerful days in Westminster, but even if you couldn’t, please come along to our next in-person meeting on Thursday 11th May at the Quaker Meeting House on Berkhamsted