On Friday 7th July 2023, XR Warwick District joined a march from the Godiva Statue to Severn Trent's headquarters in Coventry.   

• In 2020, Severn Trent dumped raw sewage into the rivers for more than 500,000 hours 
• Meanwhile, they paid out £261 million in dividends last year and CEO Liz Garfield pocketed £3.9 million in pay

XR Warwick District had a busy day in the summer sun on the 17th June. First we spoke to members of the public near the Town Hall in an outreach. There were some very interesting people around including a Green Party member, and a lady with strong spiritual beliefs.

On the 21 April 2023 Extinction Rebellion Warwick District (XRWD) helped The Big One fulfil its name, with our biggest ever turn-out.  We organised transport for a bus-load of concerned citizens from Warwick and surrounding areas and arrived just across the river from Parliament around 10AM on Friday to join the event.

BUS FOR THE BIG ONE
The Big One on 21 April is the focus of Extinction Rebellion Warwick District (XRWD) right now. We are spreading the word at outreaches in the run-up to the event, a whole new approach for XRUK, with the aim now to get as many to London as possible, without disrupting the public.

Sign up here : Eventbrite link

We went back to Barclays on Saturday 21 January 2023 to highlight their terrible record of funding fossil fuels.  They are the biggest funders of fossil fuels in Europe, despite their efforts at Greenwashing.  Fellow rebels from Stratford and Coventry came out to support the action, in somewhat ironic weather.

Extinction Rebellion Warwick District (XRWD) offered a hot beverage and a Jammie Dodger to concerned citizens at the Climate Justice Rally on Saturday 12 November. 

On Saturday 25th June we had our third outreach action at Barclays this year, informing the public about Barclays and other banks' complicity in climate change and encouraging people to switch to a more ethical choice. Since our first action in January there have been more climate emergency related disasters, see the letter below.

Extinction Rebellion Warwick University and XRWD have been working together on campus to speak to students and employees of the university.  We are doing outreach in the plaza on the first three Wednesdays of June (1st, 8th, 15th) 12AM to 2PM.

Extinction Rebellion Warwick District (XRWD) have been well-represented at the April 2022 Rebellion, which is currently underway.

On the 15th January we protested at Barclays Bank Leamington, at their greenwashing.  Barclays has invested $145 billion dollars in fossil fuels since the Paris agreement of 2015, yet claims “It’s our ambition to be a net zero bank by 2050. We’re already net zero emissions from our own operations..." blah blah blah.  Join us in demanding action.  We brought mops and cleaning gear to symbolise the greenwash and business attire.  Read the letter and see photos below.

Extinction Rebellion activists staged a die-in at Leamington Town Hall on Saturday the 13th of November, highlighting our disappointment at the COP26 climate change summit, which came to an end in Glasgow on the same day.