At our meeting on 10th May Sue reported on disrupting Standard Chartered AGM and on the Fossil Free London protest at Shell HQ. We agreed that Sue would ask the new Affinity Group members about a first action locally in
At our Zoom meeting on 3rd May we discussed a few issues local and otherwise. M and Y have photographed and measured the tree that may still be under threat on Station Road and Y has added it to the
At our meeting on 26th April we expressed rage and disbelief at the news that the Cumbrian coal mine looks likely to go ahead. This cannot happen. This Saturday, in the absence of trains to Euston for Rebellion, some of
After 9 days of bold rebelling in London, with three more rebellious weekends to follow, we all shared personal experiences and reflections, largely positive. We’d be interested to hear from anyone else who, like Baljit, took part for the first
People up and down the country have been blocking oil facilities successfully for 5 days through snow and rain. When they have been removed they have returned hours later, stronger and more determined than before. We’re not going to stop until
It was a short catch-up as some of us needed to be on the Barclays debrief at 7. We fed back on painting the streets, and reflected on the Luton Rising campaign. Disappointingly, esp for Y from St Albans who
We had a positive Zoom meeting on 15th March, with two of our newer members joining us. Those involved in the Barclays action debriefed. We talked about the next Luton Rising consultation on 16th in Tring, which was attended the
On Friday 11th March some XR Dacorum members joined with others from XR St Albans to protest once again outside their town’s branch of Barclays Bank. While L, J and M formed part of the outreach with loudhailer, leaflets and
So far this month we have decorated Berkhamsted with artworks encouraging people to join the Rebellion in April and taken part in a protest at another Luton Rising consultation, with a bank action to follow. On Friday 4th March we
On 25th February some local Rebels intervened at the Public Consultation on the expansion of Luton Airport at Pitstone Memorial Hall. Truth-telling stickers were applied to the display about green growth and two speeches were made about the genocidal madness
NO NEW OIL AND GAS oilandgasconsultations@beis.gov.uk is the email to use to expose the greenwash of the ‘checkpoint’ consultations on new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea and point out that the International Energy Association (IEA) has said
Leafleting continues to promote the Heading for Extinction talk on 15th Feb at the Quaker Meeting House on Berkhamsted High Street. Berkhamsted Today have also covered it. Sue to check whether food and drink can be laid on. S and