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
At our meeting on 25th January we discussed the UK Strategy for the next Rebellion from 9th April and committed to painting the streets and hosting a Heading for Extinction talk, inviting friends along. We now have a date: Tuesday
Rebels from XR Dacorum leafleted cinema-goers outside The Rex, Berkhamsted, before showings of the movie Don’t Look Up in January 2022. The majority of punters took a leaflet, devised by us, which answered the question WHAT CAN WE DO? having
We discussed the film, DON’T LOOK UP, which will soon be shown at The Rex in Berkhamsted (13th and 21st) and The Odyssey in St Albans. While devastating, it is a great conversation opener. (See Peter Kalmus’s and George Monbiot’s
On 9th December we stood on Berkhamsted High Street with this message, initially asking people what they thought or felt about COP 26. One person was “quite positive” about it (!) but many ignored the question and some didn’t know