the Time to act is now!

Extinction Rebellion is a non violent civil disobediance movement formed in May 2018 by a group of academics and launched by Roger Hallam, Gail Bradbrook and others in October 2018. XR wants to rally support worldwide around a common sense of urgency to tackle climate breakdown.

XR Chesham

We are a local group of rebels wanting a future for our children and our planet! We'll be getting involved in local actions and the national protests, generally making a nuisance of ourselves until the govenment takes the action needed to save our planet, our environment and all our futures!

Did you miss the Chesham election hustings?

Watch it here! All our local candidates go head to head on their parties stance on the climate.

Are you ready for the election?

Do you know who you will vote for?

Take a look at the image below for some useful climate related info on our political parties and their record on the climate.

For sources used in creating this Climate Election flyer see below
https://www.conservatives.com/sharethefacts/2019/06/net-zero-pledge

https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/a-green-industrial-revolution/

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-conference-2019-carbon-neutral-pledge-climate-change-636907

https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan
https://campaigns.greenparty.org.uk/manifesto/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/guardian-mp-climate-score-methodology-parliament-votes

An article in the guardian about our own Dr Lyn Jenkins and how he was referred to prevent, the government’s counter-terrorism programme for joining Extinction Rebellion.

Our demands

Extinction Rebellion is an international apolitical network using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to act on the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

We have three demands in the UK:

1: Tell the truth

Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.

2: Act Now

Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.

3: Beyond Politics

Government must create and be led by the decisions of a Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice.

News from around the net

Important infomation and intresting stories relating to the rebellion and climet change from around the net.

Are we Extremists?

This is a good read about the think tank report that has been widely quoted in the press labling Extinction Rebellion as a "EXTREMISTS" Organization.

News from the rebellion

All the latest from the XR website.

Doctors support the Rebellion!

More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of the environmental crisis.

A reluctant rebel

An article with our own Victoria Mistry with her reasons for joining the XR protests in Par liament Square.

Click the image to download the article

Mr Angry Anonymous

A letter from an Anonymous person published in Your Amersham magazine in the July edition. And a reply letter from our own Dr Lyn.

Letters to our mp

Have a read of some correspondance between us and Cheryl Gillan

go morrisons!

Removing all plastic packaging from the fruit and veg!

go Waitrose!

Package free shopping! Lets hope they roll this out across all their stores soon.

go Sainsbury's!

First UK Supermarket Chain to Eliminate Plastic From Produce Will Save 1,300 Tons of Plastic From Landfill

Extinction Rebellion: Met wants 1,130 climate protesters charged

If you only watch one thing today, make it this!

the film that environmental organizations don't want you to see!

Just Have a think!

This is a great youtube channel, loads of useful info about the climate, new tech to combat it and info on IPCC and other political stuff.

updated STATEMENT FROM EXTINCTION REBELLION

Regarding the use of drones and other methods not in the sprit of Extinction Rebellion.

Chalk Streams in Crisis

Chalk Streams are globally scarce habitats, 85% of the 260 chalk streams in the world are in the UK. The Chilterns Chalk Streams are currently in a very poor state, a combination of climate change and a high level of water abstraction has left us with exceptionally low river levels. Within the Chilterns AONB 60% of the chalk stream habitat is currently dry.

We have recently been informed that a House of Commons debate on theChalk Streams in Crisis dossier has been scheduled for next Monday, 22nd July. For this to have an impact we need to ensure that local MP’s are aware of the issues and that they attend and engage with this debate. We have contacted all the MP’s with Chilterns chalk streams in their constituency.
How can you help? Contacting your MP about this issue as soon as you’re able as the time scale is very tight
You can find out who your MP is and how to contact them here. There is a standard letter on our website for you to download .
Spread the word – please help to raise the profile of the Chalk Streams in Crisis. Look out for our tweets on this @Chilternstreams. Across the Chilterns we are suffering a drought, yet hardly anyone is talking about it. Please help us to change that.

Join our Rebellion!

Click here to sign up to XRChesham

Join The Rebellion!

Click here to sign up to the main Extinction Rebellion mailing list.

Events

Regen Sharing Circle
12 December 2019

Following the Climate Election hustings, XR Chesham Regeneration & Wellbeing Group is hosting our next Sharing Circle. We will be meeting on election evening Thursday 12 December in the tiered meeting room, White Hill Centre, Chesham, doors open at 7pm refreshments for a prompt start at 7.30pm (NB unfortunately latecomers will not be able to participate), ending around 8.30pm with the opportunity to stay & chat with each other until 9pm finish. A small donation would be appreciated towards the cost of the room hire.
If you would like more information, please contact Fiona at regen@xrchesham.co.uk or go to Regeneration link on XR Chesham website for more information about Sharing Circles.
We look forward to seeing you 😊

Actions

This is not a drill!

You've seen the science, joined the rebellion? Now read the book! Written by a collection of rebels, their facts, figures and personal stories. Its well worth a read.

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

We can all make a difference! take a leaf out of Greta's book as it were,
If we all stand up and say, "this needs to stop" they will take note, they will have no choice!!

There Is No Planet B!

Another great read, full of facts and figures, plenty of ideas on how we can help save our planet. Lots of graphs too if thats what you like and up to date as it came out this year.

Audio recording

Of the talk by Dr Emily Spry and Professor Kate Jeffery on the 11th June. The first few seconds are missing but all the important stuff is there. click on the image to download.

WE HAVE FIVE YEARS TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, HARVARD SCIENTIST SAYS

Video

An XR Talk from Rodger Hallam. This is a must watch for anyone intrested in whats coming.

The Truth

We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis: scientists agree we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making.

CLick here to see what the science comunity has to say