Exreme weather events have already plagued 2025 in its first month, from the LA wildfires which have killed many and destroyed homes of many more, to Storm Éowyn in the UK.
XR Warwick District was on the streets of Leamington on Saturday 25 talking to citizens about these events, using a survey board, and putting into practice outreach training provided by XR Midlands the night before.
London
XRWD met up with rebels from from across the country on 28 October 2024 to march to several insurers, pressuring them to stop insuring fossil fuels.
Extinction Rebellion occupied insurance companies and caused disruption across the City of London including the Walkie Talkie, home to insurers Ascot, Talbot, Chaucer, Markel, Allied World, CNA Hardy, Tokio Marine Kiln, Sirius International and Lancashire Syndicates, demanding insurance companies dump new oil, gas & coal projects
Thousands of activists have also hit the streets, calling on insurers to cut their ties with fossil fuel projects which are actively fuelling climate chaos
We staged a die-in outside Lloyds of London, where our bodies were chalked around by Climate Crime Investigators
Birmingham
XR Warwick joined up with XR Midlands on Friday 1 November to bring Fire and Flood to the offices of insurance companies in Birmingham, and ask them to stop insuring new coal and oil extraction projects. Rebels also wrote letters to the employees of these companies to encourage them to speak up to management.
Zurich, Probitas and Generali have already made commitments to stop enabling new fossil fuel extraction. We need the others to follow.
Extinction Rebellion Warwick District and Stratford-upon-Avon joined forces to talk to National Trust visitors about Barclays on Sunday 4 August at Charlecote Park.
XR Warwick District joined the Restore Nature Now march on Saturday 22 June in London, alongside a wide range of organisations, from the RSPB and the National Trust to Wildlife Trusts, to bring 5 key demands to the UK government of the near future:
On 17 May Warwick District rebels caught the early train to Birmingham to picket insurance companies alongside other XR groups, as part of the Insure our Future campaign.
Restore Nature Now march London 22 June 2024.
XR Warwick District is organising a bus from Leamington, £23 per head, with discounts for children and unwaged: get your tickets here: Eventbrite
I arrived early on a sunny morning in Trinity Square Gardens, in readiness for a 10.30 demo start. Happily, the first group I came across were from the West Midlands and it was fantastic to meet people whose faces I’d previously seen on the Coordinators’ Zoom sessions.
On Sunday 17 December 2023, we spoke to local people about air pollution in our area outside Leamington Town Hall and mapped the pollution where they lived.
XR Warwick District joined the first Stop Birmingham Airport Expansion protest, in wind and rain, to hold placards and chant in front of Birmingham’s Airport Consultative Committee meeting on Thursday 7 December.
