To Governments of the world, this is the moment of truth. You are not doing enough. To everybody else, rebel! As the eve of the International Rebellion approaches, people in more than 60 cities around the world release their plans for peacefully shutting down their cities, and disrupting business as usual, to demand Governments tell the truth on the Climate and Ecological Emergency - and act. Find out more at the International Extinction Rebellion website here.
Starting Monday 7 October, many thousands of rebels and allied movements will return once again to disrupt capital cities around the world - blocking roads, bridges, transport links and more - to demand immediate action in the face of the Climate and Ecological Emergency. An emergency caused by the state of the current dominant systems - political, social and economic - under which we live.
Action is expected in more than 60 cities from Paris to Berlin, and all the way round the world including Los Angeles, Santiago, Washington DC, New York, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Madrid, London, Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna, Cape Town, New Delhi, Mumbai, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Wellington. Extinction Rebellion currently has a presence in more than 72 countries with a total of 485 groups across a total of 473 cities and towns.
Chittranjan Dubey from Extinction Rebellion India said : “Across more than 10 cities in India, during Rebellion Week we will be performing mass die ins. We the citIzens of India are going to declare a climate and ecological crisis.”
The International Rebellion is intended to pressure governments to meet Extinction Rebellion’s demands. These actions vary from country to country, but at their core include the same fundamental demands, these are: that governments and other institutions must tell the truth and declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency, must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025 and must create and be led by the decisions of Citizens’ Assemblies on climate and ecological justice. These are the key principles that unite activists across the planet.
There are a multitude of countries across the world already struggling with the impacts of our current climate & ecological disaster whose governments are unwilling to talk about it.
Sainey Gibba from Extinction Rebellion Gambia said “The capital city of Gambia - Banjul, is less than one meter above sea level, research says that by 2100 the city will be lost and my Government aren’t talking about it, nobody in the country are talking about it.
“People in the capital city have already had to move inland - climate and ecological breakdown and its impacts are already hitting my country. So, during the October event is a peaceful rebellion in which we will try and wake the governments into declaring a climate & ecological breakdown.”
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