End Urban SUVs in the News
Our End Urban SUVs campaign has been covered in the Otago Daily Times. The article can be read here. Their video can be watched below.To find out more about the campaign, and take part, visit [...]
Week of action media coverage
Rebels from across Aotearoa New Zealand travelled to Paekakariki, Wellington for a Rebel Camp from Saturday 5 - Tuesday 8 October. On Monday 7 , the group was the first to disrupt one of 60 [...]
Train carrying coal through Christchurch blocked by around 100 Extinction Rebellion protestors (video)
The group says the country is in the middle of a climate emergency. Source: 1 NEWS Source: TVNZ 9 August 2019
Hearings a farce, environmentalists say
Read more: Original article in the Otago Daily Times Wednesday, 31 July 2019 By Jono Edwards Debating oil and gas drilling without mentioning climate change has been labelled as like ''fighting a fire without water'' [...]
ODT: Group takes action to send climate change message
'''We've got to start now." That's the belief of Extinction Rebellion Queenstown Lakes founder Anna Simmonds in regard to action needed to limit climate change. Early on Wednesday, Ms Simmonds and a half dozen other [...]
Māori TV: Blocked roads and angry drivers at climate change protest
Watch the video. "Drivers were furious after being blocked by activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement protesting at an intersection in Mission Bay, Auckland, today. It was one of seven protests happening around Aotearoa today, [...]
Stuff: Motorists upset by climate change protests will be a lot more annoyed by real climate change, say protesters + Video
"A few moments of disruption for motorists in centres around the country is nothing compared to the sort of climate change disruption that is on the way, say protesters." Watch video and read more. By Marty [...]
Sun Live: Tauranga going under water says activists + Video
'Climate change activists took to the streets of downtown Tauranga today to alert jazz festival goers that the city will be under water in the future. “We’re representing the fact that Tauranga’s going to be [...]
Newshub: Protesters take to the streets over damning environmental report + Video
"A series of protests will take place across New Zealand today following the release of a damning environmental report. The Environment Aotearoa report found 90 percent of our sea birds and 76 percent of our [...]
Sour milk at Parliament, in protest against polluted waterways + Video
Around 60 members of Extinction Rebellion Te Whanganui-a-Tara gathered in Parliament grounds this afternoon to protest against intensive dairy farming and the associated land damage, greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater pollution, health impacts and species extinction. [...]
Stuff: People pushing back to halt climate change (video)
"Sea levels are rising, oceans are becoming warmer, droughts are intensifying, crops, freshwater and wildlife are becoming increasingly threatened, and groups like Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa are calling it an emergency," says Carly Thomas at Stuff. Read [...]
Stuff: Five arrested after protesters turn off water to Canterbury’s regional council HQ +VIDEO
"Five people have been arrested after shutting off the water supply to 500 staff at Environment Canterbury's headquarters.", says Joel Ineson at Stuff. Read more.