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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Aug 30

Watch our little film made in Wimborne St Giles about Nick Ashley-Cooper, the Earl of Shaftesbury, profiting from sand dredging of Lough Neagh

youtu.be/bISxUdU_hvU

#SaveLoughNeagh
#Colonialism

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Stinky Story of the Earl of Shaftesbury and Lough Neagh

YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion Wimborne

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xrrebeleveryday.bsky.social @xrrebeleveryday.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wow wow wow 🤩

Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 24

🌱 Pink Rebels Deliver!
XR Wimborne handed in postcards to Dorset Council urging a ban on glyphosate spraying.
The public has spoken, now we demand a clear end date.
Thanks to all who took part.
The fight for a pesticide-free Dorset continues! 🌻🐝
#BanGlyphosate #DorsetCouncil

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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Jul 25

Right now 10 ‪‪@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social activists are hanging from the Forth Road Bridge with the aim of stopping an INEOS tanker from reaching Grangemouth oil refinery.

news.stv.tv/east-central...

Greenpeace activists hang from Forth Road Bridge to stop gas tanker

Greenpeace say ten protestors are suspended off the structure with the aim of stopping an INEOS tanker from reaching Grangemouth oil refinery.

news.stv.tv

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 25

Points we raised, feel free to copy:
✅ Restore council land for nature (they own 41 farms)
✅ Support greener farming, businesses, gardens
✅ Stop glyphosate by July 2027
✅ Make Council land pollinator friendly
✅ Add swift boxes
✅ Put nature first – always.
#PesticideFreeDorset #GlyphosateFreeDorset

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 Dorset Council Nature Consultation
Deadline 30 July 🚨
A vague strategy with no clear plans/targets. You change that! Demand real action, real deadlines.
😡 They even call Wessex Water a model for nature-based solutions. Seriously?
www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/dorset-s-loc...
#Dorset #NatureRecovery

Dorset's local nature recovery strategy - Dorset Council

www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · Jul 13

113 years ago it was known that burning #fossilfuels like #coal would raise the Earth's temperature.

We missed so many opportunities to stop the #climate disaster now unfolding.

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · Jul 13

Britain’s media is relentlessly promoting Reform even though it’s a front for the fossil fuel industry.

Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · Jul 11

Study finds that media coverage outside of the top two parties during the recent General Election was somewhat skewed in favour of Nigel Farage and Reform.

Research reveals: Farage was the third-most ‘covered’ politician in the country.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/who...

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XR London @xrlondon.bsky.social · Jul 14

London has one of the world’s largest urban forests with 8m+ trees. This summer they're under extreme stress due to 3 heatwaves + lack of rain. Newly planted 🌳 need extra watering to survive & people can help by watering, ideally morning or evening to reduce evaporation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 14

Ed Miliband is going to tell MPs the radical truth about the climate and nature crisis … once a year

Seriously? Only once a year?

We need radical truth telling every minute of every day, and we need radical action on the climate and nature crises

www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations

Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets

www.theguardian.com

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Jul 11

The “Oscars of the insurance industry”, where people who’re underwriting our destruction put on their nicest dresses and celebrate.

⚠️The insurance industry is simultaneously creating policies that are flooding our houses and no longer insuring houses more likely to flood.

#Insurance #Floods #Fires

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Jul 10

Insuring Disaster, Not Survival: FUCKING UP THE PLANET AWARDS
“Oscars of the insurance industry” the British Insurance Awards (BIA) was disrupted yesterday.

People celebrated Allianz, AXA and Chubb profiting from militarised violence, climate breakdown, and human rights abuses around the world.

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xrrebeleveryday.bsky.social @xrrebeleveryday.bsky.social · Jul 12

Proscribing a non violent activist group as terrorist is beyond bonkers. Do you agree?

www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/pale...

Police detain protestors in Parliament Square after they hold signs supporting Palestine Action

Police detained protestors in Parliament Square on Saturday afternoon after they were pictured holding signs reading “I support Palestine Action” days after the group was proscribed.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚫☠️ Weedkiller Warning!
Did you know glyphosate, used by Dorset Council, has been linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, via childhood exposure?

We’re calling for a ban with a clear end date.
📍 See us in Wimborne this Saturday morning!

#StopGlyphosate

publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spo...

Childhood exposure to common herbicide may increase the risk of disease in young adulthood

More than 75 years of transformational research and hands-on social impact for a better world.

publichealth.berkeley.edu

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 10

Saturday morning we will be in Wimborne inviting members of the public to add their comments to postcards we will send to Nick Ireland, Leader of Dorset Council to say stop spraying
#StopGlyphosate
#StopRoundUp

#ProtectOurKids
#NatureCrisis
#DorsetCouncil
#Wimborne
#WimborneMinster
#Dorset

A postcard with the words Warning Glyphosate sprayed here. Harmful to health and to nature. Dorset Council stop now or set an end date. The back of which is addressed to Nick Ireland Leader of Dorset Council. “I know you care about nature because you declared a Nature Emergency in 2024. Please set an early date for banning glyphosate use by Dorset Council. As Chris Packham said, its use across Dorset’s urban areas is simply mind-boggling.” There’s space on the reverse for comments and name and address

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌿 Join us Saturday in Wimborne!
We’re calling on Dorset Council to stop spraying glyphosate, a weedkiller that harms bees & humans

📍 9:45am King Street Car Park
🐝 Join our Beeometer & postcard campaigns ✍️

Let’s build a pesticide-free Dorset where nature thrives

📰 Newsletter eepurl.com/jiThvo

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xr-southwestuk.bsky.social @xr-southwestuk.bsky.social · Jul 8

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XR London @xrlondon.bsky.social · Jul 8

UK govt urgently needs to introduce far tighter regulation to stop millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge being spread on UK farmland. Tests have found sludge contains hormone-damaging nonylphenols & phthalates, banned carcinogen PFOS, antibiotics, antimicrobials & anti-corrosion chemical ☠️

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Extinction Rebellion Oxford @xroxford.org · Jul 7

✈️ Stop flying to Extinction! ✈️

Great action at Oxford private airport

- nearly 100 activists marched from Kidlington centre to the airport to hold a rally, with excellent speakers

🎥Credit: Suzanne Williams

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Extinction Rebellion Oxford @xroxford.org · Jul 7

✈️ It’s time to ban the use of private jets! ✈️

Chris Packham explains some of the stats & facts at Oxford Airport:

13,744 private jet flights in 2024

28% were empty 😳😡

🛩️ ❌No to private jet use

🛩️ ❌ No to Airport expansion

#climateemergency #privatejets #airportexpansion #FlyingtoExtinction

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XRUK-Actions @xruk-actions.bsky.social · Jul 8

A 74-year-old grandmother could lose her home after refusing to pay council tax to #Buckinghamshire Council, in protest against its #FossilFuel pension fund and banking investments
#ClimateDestruction
#FossilFuelsAreKillingUs

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woman faces losing home over Buckinghamshire Council tax protest

Jane McCarthy believes the council's pension fund and banking are

www.bbc.co.uk

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XR Horsham @xrhorsham.bsky.social · Jul 8

#StopRosebank

Christian Climate Action @cclimateaction.bsky.social · Jul 8

🕊️🙏 PRAY WITH US TO END NEW OIL & GAS🙏🕊️

In CCA, one of our key campaigns is the Stop Rosebank Oilfield Campaign. Rosebank is a key oil field to stop, because if a relatively advanced project like Rosebank is refused permission, then that will mean that the other 15 approved North Sea oil licenses..

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jun 27

An open letter to #RealisationFestival

The Earl of Shaftesbury must return Lough Neagh.

When will he stop the sand dredging and transfer ownership?

He must publish the contracts & support a Citizens Assembly.

No more greenwash!

#SaveLoughNeagh #StopSandDredging #Colonialism #DredgingDestroys

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jun 13

🌧️🔥 We did it! 🔥🌧️
In the pouring rain, XR Wimborne, XRBCP, Magwatch & Dorset locals showed up

1st at the Canford incinerator site 💪 …

then 🎶 at BCP Council

Months of activism, drumming, singing carried us to victory — BCP Council said NO to MVV’s incinerator!

#StopCanfordIncinerator #PeoplePower

Extinction Rebellion Wimborne Pink Rebels singing to BCP Council on the Bournemouth Civic Centre lawn in the rain, dressed in pink hazmats and holding humorous anti-incinerator song sheets. The message, Stop Canford Incinerator

Protesters from Wimborne, Canford and the wider locality holding colourful banners and placards in heavy rain outside the proposed Canford incinerator site, as council members conduct a site visit in the background. To say Stop Canford Incinerator

Crowds gathered outside the Bournemouth Civic Centre with banners and flags. Some people are soaked, but everyone is smiling and determined to Stop Canford Incinerator.

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jun 26

Canford Incinerator Defeat — Victory for the People‼️

Joanna Bury of XR Wimborne:

“Incinerator rejection is a victory for people power … MVV may appeal, but we’ll keep working to stop the project and to raise awareness about the threat to Dorset’s natural environment”

#StopCanfordIncinerator

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · Jun 26

Canford Incinerator Defeated By People Power‼️

Cllr Sidaway: “I could not ignore the weight of feeling from local residents. That alone is not a valid planning reason for me to refuse it, but it certainly was an influence on my decision.”

dorsetview.co.uk/canford-wast...

#StopCanfordIncinerator

Canford waste incinerator proposal rejected by council

BCP Council has refused to grant planning permission to a waste incinerator in Canford Magna. At a committee meeting on Thursday 12 June...

dorsetview.co.uk

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