Ashdown Forest
We had 10 attendees, thank you all for braving the rain. There was a lot of discussion about the Humanity Project. This is all about encouraging people to work together to find a voice on current issues. The Forest Row Forward-dominated Forest Row parish council is open to progressive democratic innovations. There was a lot … Read more
A number of threads around local democracy are coming together. A new administration has been elected to Forest Row Parish Council. Some of the councillors have connections to XR. The Humanity Project is being rolled out across the country. The ideas of “flatpack democracy” inspired both the Forest Row changes and are central to the … Read more
Restore Nature Now is a campaign led by writer and TV presenter Chris Packham that aims to improve the state of nature in the UK urgently. The campaign could not be more timely. The State of Nature report was published on Wednesday 28th September 2023 and it makes grim reading. Most of the indicators of … Read more
Suzy has been to Forest Row Parish Council meetings and reports that a Green councillor is interested in a People’s Assembly addressing sustainable housing. Concern was noted about the use of herbicide in Ashdown Forest to control bracken. Humanity Project (HP) – a national pop will be held in Manchester in November. Attendance will be … Read more
XR Ashdown Forest travelled to the Splashpoint in Seaford on Saturday 28th January to lend support to their local Dirty Water Campaign, a well-coordinated rally of over 100 people gathered together to protest the raw sewage discharged on the beaches of Seaford by Southern Water. A speaker reminded protesters that sewage was dumped just a … Read more
You may have seen a lot of stories about sewage in rivers and in the sea recently. A combination of the loss of EU water quality standards, difficulty obtaining treatment chemicals, more extreme weather and disinterest from the water companies means that the UK has the worst open water quality in Europe. Billions of litres … Read more
21st April 2023 is the beginning of The Big One. 100,000 people will descend on parliament and demand that the UK government change direction on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. For too long, politicians have sided with the highly destructive big businesses that are destroying planet Earth for profit. We need laws, targets and leadership … Read more
Video by Suzy Miller
Video by Suzy Miller
On Sunday 2nd October 2022, Extinction Rebellion supporters occupied Waterloo Bridge to protest against the UK government’s continuing failure to honour their commitments on the climate. Some of them talk about what they are doing in this video.
Some banks behave in an ethical way, ensuring that the funding they provide goes to businesses and ventures that do not harm planet Earth. Other banks are less so. In fact, some banks are directly involved in providing funding for climate-wrecking fossil fuel companies. We staged a piece of street theatre in East Grinstead to … Read more
Mid Sussex MP Mims Davies has made a statement on fracking (click to view). This follows the new Truss government lifting the moratorium on fracking and permitting it where there is local support. The government move is deeply problematic. It ignores the urgent need to drive down oil and gas extraction and move as rapidly … Read more
This picture was taken as the sun went down at Ovingdean near Brighton. It was towards the end of a long hot day by the coast, one of a great many long hot days. Long hot summers, like a white Christmas, are not a British thing. The normal pattern is of a few hot days … Read more
Tuesday 19th July was the hottest that England has ever experienced. So it was quite fitting that rebels from all over Sussex gathered at East Sussex County Council HQ in Lewes to demand that ESCC stop investing pension funds in fossil fuels and also get serious about tackling the climate emergency. There were discussions with … Read more
Project 3.5 is XR’s plan to get 3.5% of the UK population actively working for a new direction on the climate.
It’s time to put the future before money.
On Saturday 25th June, rebels staged a “funeral” for Our Children’s Future. The action took place in Church Crookham where a fuel pipeline is being laid through the village. The pipeline links the refinery in Fawley to Heathrow Airport and will provide fuel for airport expansion. More fossil fuel infrastructure and more flights are incompatible … Read more
This is the new website for Extinction Rebellion Ashdown Forest. There’s still a lot of work to do, so please visit us again soon. In the meantime, we are on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AshdownForestXR