The movement founded in 2018 prefers to focus on the organization of a large demonstration on April 21 before the British Parliament.
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His activists used to stick to roads or planes to alert climate change. Last August, they even blocked the Tower Bridge, emblematic London tilting bridge. Rebellion extinction is now considering other modes of action.
The environmental organization announced on Sunday 1 er suspend the spectacular blockages of blockages that made it known in the United Kingdom. The network of activists, trained in 2018 and since famous for these civil disobedience operations, prefers to mobilize for a large demonstration, in April, against the inaction of the government.
“This year, we give priority to participation rather than arrests, relational rather than road blockages”, justified the group in a Commission . He announced that he had taken for 2023 the “controversial resolution of temporarily turning away from disturbances of public space as main tactics”.
controversial actions
Rebellion extinction recognizes “the power of disturbances to ring the alarm” but finds “necessary” to evolve and says he wants above all “to disturb the abuses of power” by putting pressure on the political class to put an end to use fossil fuels. The organization calls for this a big demonstration on April 21 before the British Parliament, hoping to bring together 100,000 people.
Rebellion extinction actions have often been controversial, the group exasperating part of the opinion, conservative power and a large part of the press by attacking the public. Many activists have been arrested during these events and the government plans to further harden the right to demonstrate.
At the same time, Rebellion extinction was exceeded by the emergence of even more radical groups like Just Stop Oil or Britain Insulate, which blocked the peripheral motorway from London or sprayed with soup, in October, the masterpiece From Van Gogh the Sunflowers to the National Gallery in London.