Activists occupied central sites and blocked roads to demand climate action, resulting in more than a thousand arrests. The rebellion made disruption a tactic to challenge political inaction and expanded climate protest into a national conversation about democracy, policing and whose disruption is treated as acceptable.
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Activists occupied central sites and blocked roads to demand climate action, resulting in more than a thousand arrests. The rebellion made disruption a tactic to challenge political inaction and expanded climate protest into a national conversation about democracy, policing and whose disruption is treated as acceptable.
Extinction Rebellion begins a two-week London rebellion. Activists occupied central sites and blocked roads to demand climate action, resulting in more than a thousand arrests.
Activists occupied central sites and blocked roads to demand climate action, resulting in more than a thousand arrests. The rebellion made disruption a tactic to challenge political inaction and expanded climate protest into a national conversation about democracy, policing and whose disruption is treated as acceptable.