cate09Jan 213 minLook up, Canberra - How to XR in 2022Extinction Rebellion ACT acknowledges the First Peoples of the lands upon which we live, love and rebel. We offer our respect to Elders...
cate09Dec 19, 20211 minFarewell to an amazing 2021Thank you to everyone who came together to plan actions, paint banners, make costumes, challenged authority and disrupt business as...
j9conDec 14, 20202 minSTOP THE GAS LOBBY FRACKING OUR DEMOCRACY Extinction Rebellion ACT (XRACT) rebels were out in force in Canberra city last Friday to highlight Australia’s increasing isolation on...
j9conSep 24, 20201 minTOMORROW'S DISCOBEDIENCE POSTPONEDForecast thunderstorms and hail on Friday afternoon (25 September) will put a dampener on our Discobedience dancers and singers who will...
j9conSep 24, 20202 minWE DISCO BECAUSE WE GIVE A DAMN Canberra’s peak hour car, foot, tram and bike traffic is in for a treat this Friday afternoon as Extinction Rebellion ACT takes to the...
j9conSep 21, 20201 minJOIN OUR UPCOMING ACTIONS AND LEARN ABOUT XR ACT XR ACT will be supporting the School Strikes for Climate global day of action on Friday 25 September. Our 'Discobedience' dancers and...
j9conSep 18, 20208 minThe megafires and pandemic expose the lies that frustrate action on climate changeAs we enter into another bushfire season and Government calls for a gas-led (fossil fuel) COVID recovery become louder - HERE IS AN...
j9conAug 20, 20202 minWELCOME THE POLLIES - PARLIAMENT URGED TO ACT NOW ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCYDemands for urgent action on the climate emergency will greet Federal politicians when they return to Parliament on 24 August for the...
jennync2May 28, 20202 minDISCOBEDIENCE DANCE SQUADWe need you to dance up a storm! Many of you may have heard of the wonderful Melbourne ‘Discobedience’ dance, which is choreographed to...
jennync2May 28, 20201 minREBELS WITH A CAUSE - WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! XR ACT has grown quickly and before the social isolation of Covid 10 we had new rebels signing up daily, especially around the time of...
jennync2Apr 2, 20203 minAlone TogetherWe find ourselves in a unique and unprecedented situation. It is scary, confusing and it is escalating at a pace that makes it hard to...
jennync2Mar 17, 20201 minXRACT - in the time of Covid 19Our first demand is to #TellTheTruth. The truth right now: the coronavirus (Covid-19) is here, it’s dangerous, and mass public gatherings...
j9conMar 13, 20203 minCLIMATE BILL POSTPONED - BUT WE CAN STILL SUPPORTIn light of recent developments affecting us all, the Peoples Climate Assembly has cancelled Line The Streets for #ClimateActNow: 23...
j9conMar 1, 20202 min FROM SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TO REBELWhen 78 year-old grandmother, Margaret Clough, participated in a recent XR Honk for Climate action, a passing motorist yelled at her to...
jennync2Feb 17, 20201 minXR is DiverseBack in October, Sherryn Groch from the Canberra Times wrote the following article that profiled some of our ACT Rebels. As the article...
jennync2Feb 13, 20201 minWe encircled Parliament House!Over 3,000 people at the Peoples Climate Assembly (XR ACT was one of the organisers) peacefully & symbolically encircled Parliament House...