Extinction Rebellion is another bunch of left wing Subversives from the Lunatic Fringe. Their chosen obsession is the environment. Their approach to matters is sabotage, making themselves a nuisance but claiming that they are not violent and that they hold the Moral High Ground. One forerunner, the Barbie Liberation Organization got away with it for that reason.
Their main founders,
Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook are
intelligent. Hallam studied
civil disobedience at
King's College London. Presumably he is the main trouble maker. They are not
approved by Richard Walton, a
policeman who decided to change his story then resigned before they could give
him aggravation. See
Former terror chief warns Extinction Rebellion are extreme anarchist group.
PS Notice the indulgent tone of the Wiki.
Extinction Rebellion ex Wiki
Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.[1][3]Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018,[4] and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam, Gail Bradbrook, Simon Bramwell, and other activists from the campaign group Rising Up![5] In November 2018, 5 bridges across the Thames River in London were blockaded.[6] In April 2019 Extinction Rebellion occupied 5 prominent sites in central London: Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Waterloo Bridge and the area around Parliament Square.
Citing inspiration from grassroots movements such as Occupy, Gandhi's Satyagraha, the suffragettes, Gene Sharp[7], Martin Luther King and others in the civil rights movement, Extinction Rebellion wants to rally support worldwide around a common sense of urgency to tackle climate breakdown.[8][6] A number of activists in the movement accept arrest and imprisonment,[9] similar to the mass arrest tactics of the Committee of 100 in 1961.
The movement uses a circled hourglass, known as the Extinction Symbol, to serve as a warning that time is rapidly running out for many species.[10][11]
Roger Hallam ex Wiki
Julian Roger Hallam (born May 1966)[1] is a British environmental activist, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion[2] and cooperative federation organisation Radical Routes.[3]Hallam was previously an organic farmer in Wales; he attributes the destruction of his business to a series of extreme weather events.[4]
Between at least 2017 and early 2019 he was studying for a PhD in civil disobedience at King's College London,[5] researching how to achieve social change through radical movements.[6]
In January 2017, in an action to urge King's College London to divest from fossil fuels, Hallam and another person, using water-soluble chalk-based spray paint,[4] painted "Divest from oil and gas", "Now!" and "Out of time" on the university's Strand campus entrance.[7][5] They were arrested in February when they again spray painted the university's Great Hall,[7] charged by the state with criminal damage and fined £500.[8] In May 2019, after a three day trial at Southwark Crown Court, they were cleared by a jury of all charges, having argued in their defence that their actions were a proportionate response to the climate crisis.[5] In March 2017, Hallam went on hunger strike to demand the university divest from fossil fuels—the institution had millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels but no investment in renewable energy.[8] Five weeks after the first protest, the university removed £14m worth of investments from fossil fuel companies and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2025.[4][9]
Hallam is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, with Gail Bradbrook and Simon Bramwell.[2][6][10][11] He stood unsuccessfully in the 2019 European Parliament election in the London constituency as an independent, winning 924 of the 2,241,681 votes cast.[12]
Gail Bradbrook ex Wiki
Gail Marie Bradbrook (born 30 April 1972)[1] is the co-founder of the international social movement Extinction Rebellion.Bradbrook was born in 1972 and grew up in South Elmsall in Yorkshire. Her father worked at a mine in South Kirkby. She studied molecular biophysics at the University of Manchester and carried on with a PhD. She carried out post-doctoral work in India and France.[2][1]
From 2003 to 2017 she was 'director of strategy' at Citizens Online, an organisation promoting wider internet access for disabled users, including launching a 'Fix the Web' campaign in November 2010.[3]
Activism
Bradbrook has been involved in various campaigning groups in Stroud, including a 2010–13 period as voluntary director of Transition Stroud,[4][5] an anti-fracking protest,[6] and various actions in opposition to the building of a local incinerator.[7][8][9]In 2015, with George Barda, she set up the group Compassionate Revolution[10][11][12] which morphed into Rising Up!, out of which came Extinction Rebellion (XR).[2] Bradbrook was involved in an early Extinction Rebellion roadblock in Stroud.[13] She is protesting to raise awareness of the dangers from anthropogenic climate change and believes that only civil disobedience on a large scale can bring about the change that is needed.[14]
Private life
Bradbrook has been married twice, the first time to Professor Jeffrey Forshaw.[15] She has two sons.[2][16] She lives in Stroud with her partner Simon Bramwell, who is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
Richard Walton ex Powerbase
Richard William Walton (born June 1965) is a former Head of Counter-Terrorism Command (SO15) within the Metropolitan Police Service. In March 2014, the Ellison Review into corruption and spying around the Stephen Lawrence Murder Inquiry revealed Walton had a meeting with an undercover officer infiltrating campaign groups working closely with the Lawrence family. At that time, Walton was part of the Lawrence Review Team, preparing the Metropolitan Police submissions and responses to the Macpherson Inquiry into the failed murder investigation. The meeting had been set up by Bob Lambert, acting chief of the Special Demonstration Squad, and handler of the undercover identified as "N81".Ellison was critical of the meeting taking place, calling it 'wrong-headed' and noted that it could have sparked disorder if it had become publicly known. He also criticised Walton for retracting his detailed earlier statement once he knew he would be criticised.[1] As a result of this criticism and public outcry over spying on the Lawrences, Walton was 'temporarily' removed from his post and his conduct was referred to the Independent Police Complaint Commission (IPCC). He was reinstated on 1 December 2014. However, in May 2015 the IPCC announced the investigation was continuing and being widened.
In January 2016 it emerged that Walton was retiring ahead of any outcome, a move that would allow him to avoid disciplinary hearings following the IPCC probe. This came under criticism from Stephen Lawrence's mother Doreen who called on Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe to suspend Walton, saying:[2]
- I find it upsetting to think that Commander Walton might be able to retire without being held to account... He shouldn't be allowed to retire just when the IPCC says there's a case to answer.
Later it became clear that he retired just six days after the IPCC submitted its findings to the Metropolitan Police. He would have had a case to answer, because his actions could have potentially undermined the public inquiry into the case and public confidence in it.[3]
Former terror chief warns Extinction Rebellion are extreme anarchist group [ 17 July 2019 ]
A former Head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) has warned that Extinction Rebellion are an extreme anarchist group and should be treated as such.Richard Walton, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, says the movement of climate protestors seeks a “subversive agenda” rooted in political extremism, eco-socialism and radical anti-capitalism.
Formed in 2018, the group is now made up of tens of thousands of followers spread across hundreds of local groups – Mr Walton claims it is a campaign of a pre-existing network of activists called ‘Rising Up!’, the campaigning arm of a company called Compassionate Revolution Ltd, which he believes has origins in the anti-globalisation Occupy Movement.
XR Globetrotter Enjoys Luxury Life Style
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An Extinction Rebellion activist who shed 'crocodile tears' over a man who missed his dying father's final hours after being caught up in protests enjoyed a globe-trotting, jet set lifestyle, MailOnline can reveal.Zoe Jones broke down and apologised after hearing how the man became stuck in traffic as he rushed to the hospital to see his dying dad because climate protesters glued themselves to a bathtub on one of Bristol's busiest roads.
Miss Jones told a BBC reporter: 'We're incredibly sorry. We didn't mean for our protest to affect your life in this way.' But she continued: 'I still believe we are doing the right thing. But it is incredibly difficult to hear stories like that.
Many viewers of her interview slammed Miss Jones's 'crocodile tears' and called for her and fellow Extinction Rebellion - XR - protesters to leave the area.
Now the 23-year-old eco-warrior faces claims of hypocrisy after photos emerged of her carbon spewing lifestyle, globetrotting to far-flung exotic locations.
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The rich can afford to have consciences. Does her family look after its servants?
Barbie Liberation Organization
It sounds like a joke. Perhaps that is why it was so quickly forgotten. Sinister or a symptom of evil in the making? Try the latter.