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- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
Look up, Canberra - How to XR in 2022
Extinction Rebellion ACT acknowledges the First Peoples of the lands upon which we live, love and rebel. We offer our respect to Elders...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
Farewell to an amazing 2021
Thank you to everyone who came together to plan actions, paint banners, make costumes, challenged authority and disrupt business as...
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j9con
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
STOP 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...
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j9con
- Sep 24, 2020
- 1 min
TOMORROW'S DISCOBEDIENCE POSTPONED
Forecast thunderstorms and hail on Friday afternoon (25 September) will put a dampener on our Discobedience dancers and singers who will...
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j9con
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
WE 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...
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j9con
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
JOIN 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...
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j9con
- Sep 18, 2020
- 8 min
The megafires and pandemic expose the lies that frustrate action on climate change
As we enter into another bushfire season and Government calls for a gas-led (fossil fuel) COVID recovery become louder - HERE IS AN...
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j9con
- Aug 20, 2020
- 2 min
WELCOME THE POLLIES - PARLIAMENT URGED TO ACT NOW ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Demands for urgent action on the climate emergency will greet Federal politicians when they return to Parliament on 24 August for the...
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cate09
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
DISCOBEDIENCE DANCE SQUAD
We need you to dance up a storm! Many of you may have heard of the wonderful Melbourne ‘Discobedience’ dance, which is choreographed to...
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cate09
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
REBELS 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...
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cate09
- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
Alone Together
We find ourselves in a unique and unprecedented situation. It is scary, confusing and it is escalating at a pace that makes it hard to...
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cate09
- Mar 18, 2020
- 1 min
XRACT - in the time of Covid 19
Our first demand is to #TellTheTruth. The truth right now: the coronavirus (Covid-19) is here, it’s dangerous, and mass public gatherings...
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j9con
- Mar 13, 2020
- 3 min
CLIMATE BILL POSTPONED - BUT WE CAN STILL SUPPORT
In light of recent developments affecting us all, the Peoples Climate Assembly has cancelled Line The Streets for #ClimateActNow: 23...
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j9con
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
FROM SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TO REBEL
When 78 year-old grandmother, Margaret Clough, participated in a recent XR Honk for Climate action, a passing motorist yelled at her to...
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cate09
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
XR is Diverse
Back in October, Sherryn Groch from the Canberra Times wrote the following article that profiled some of our ACT Rebels. As the article...
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cate09
- Feb 13, 2020
- 1 min
We encircled Parliament House!
Over 3,000 people at the Peoples Climate Assembly (XR ACT was one of the organisers) peacefully & symbolically encircled Parliament House...
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