Our rebels continued to protest from home during lockdowns, posting pictures on Social Media

Look Up, Step Up Talk:  Another well attended meeting was held at Burton Rd Methodist Church, Lincoln on 26th March  and lovely speaker Imogen delivered the talk again. More new members signed up to the movement and will be joining us at our next events and trainings. Thank-you to all who attended. The next talk will be held in May. Details will be posted on the home page.

Look Up, Step Up Talk:  A well attended meeting was held at St Faith's Church Hall, Lincoln on 5th March. An inspiring speaker joined us to give this thought-provoking Extinction Rebellion talk which resulted in many new people joining our movement. 

Lincoln XR Red Rebel Brigade visited Lincoln Cathedral to highlight its continued investment in fossil fuels. 42 dioceses hold nearly £18 million in fossil fuel companies. To date, just three of them have announced divestment. Lincoln, which has £1 million invested, isn’t one of them.

Lincolnshire Rebels joined the National Action in London to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. 

Lincolnshire Rebels scrub the bank to call out their greenwashing and dirty tricks. Barclays promised to go green but are one of the biggest funders of  fossil fuel companies. 

Lincolnshire rebels joined other groups at the Brayford to raise awareness about the threat of flooding from Global Heating. On the strike of 6.00pm all over UK and in Lincoln, church bells tolled and people banged drums and pans to sound the alarm.

Lincolnshire rebels were joined by those from Midlands Region for a family friendly Parade to highlight how all life on Earth is threatened by Climate Change and the destruction of the environment. They were accompanied by an Ark containing pictures of many endangered species.

September 2020 Rebellion - We want to Live.There were many actions, including the blockading of the News Corp printing site .

Rebels from across Lincolnshire took part in actions in four towns, demanding our MPs to take action now. 

At the bidcage in Lincoln great music, food and conversation to celebrate XR's first anniversary

XR Lincolnshire rebels took part in a socially distanced protest outside the county council offices.

XR Lincolnshire rebels joined other XR rebels and local demonstrators to protest against the plans to extend the site. 

A group of around 40 lincolnshire rebels travelled down to London to take part in the October Rebellion in London

In support of XR Youth and in alliance with many other groups around the UK, we hit the streets to protest in Lincoln City Centre. 

A few hours of fun and family-orientated activities at mansions of the future focussing on environmental ‘know-how’, in an aim to demonstrate that all of those seemingly small but simple actions can help create positive impacts for all life on earth.

As part of a co-ordinated "Stop business as usual" action across the East Midlands, we dressed in business gear and protested at Barclays Bank in Lincoln High Street. A heavy police presence prevented us from entering the bank, but we had a successful action outside nevertheless, with banners, leaflets and a die-in with a soundtrack describing the dirty investments of Barclays.

We congregated outside and then filled Lincoln Magistrates Court to support two anti-fracking protestors who were being prosecuted following their arrest in January, outside the Biscathorpe oil site. Both activists were released without charge, as is only right for these brave conscientious protectors. 

At this second meeting of the group, the way forward was discussed, including training and organisational structures.

We had a fun bike ride on a circular route around Lincoln city centre to highlight cycling, air pollution and to demand a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles. We dressed up and brought flags, bells, whistles and horns for this non-arrestable event. See cyclinguk.org for details regarding the law.

Musicians and poets took part in this moving event. We picnicked and enjoyed the sound of birdsong. This was a family-friendly event to introduce XR to new people concerned about the climate crisis and wanting to know more. We celebrated the beauty of nature and creativity and mourned what we look set to lose.

With painted faces and dressed appropriately for a funeral, we made our way  in silence (apart from powerful music) down Steep Hill, along High  Street, and to the front of the railway crossing. A bell was rung with a  roll call of Lincolnshire villages that will be flooded and species  that have become extinct in the county due to the climate crisis. 

XR Lincolnshire members took part in the mass lobby of MPs outside the Houses of Parliament, and talked to Lincoln MP Karen Lee (as shown in photo). More than 12,000 people from around the country lobbied 195 MPs about the climate emergency.

Young people, including XR Youth Lincoln, took part in the international movement of school students who are deciding not to attend classes and instead take part in demonstrations to demand action to tackle the climate emergency. Calling on everyone to join them on the streets in solidarity at these regular monthly Friday strikes.

We had a 20 minute mini presentation about the climate crisis, the thinking behind XR, and what XR Lincolnshire has been doing and plans to do. There was a lively Q&A and discussion. 

XR and Transition Lincoln held a party to promote street trees, and all trees. There was a tree petition, info on tree planting, plane tree decorating AND a Tree Die-in! We shared free trees to take home to plant, facts and stats about the value of trees, why we need them and how we are destroying them. TREES FOR LIFE!

Rebels swarmed the traffic outside the Lincolnshire County Council building in the morning of a full council meeting. During the meeting Tory councillors changed the proposed motion from getting the county to be carbon neutral from 2030 to 2050. We unfurled our banner saying "Shame on you" and sang and the meeting was closed. We demand that Lincolnshire County Council DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY.

Experts from the RSPB, Boston Woods Trust, one local councillor, various other community activists and Matt Warman MP came to talk at the first XR  meeting in Boston. There were lots of ideas about how we can talk to councillors and take  positive action.

We supported an anti-fracking activist at Lincoln Magistrates Court, following his arrest at a protest at Biscathorpe fracking plant, at the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. 

Members of XR Lincolnshire were the panel guests of the Environmental Campaigns Network of Lincoln Students' Union for a lively debate with about 50 people at Lincoln University entitled: "How to save the planet: Is Non-Violent Direct Action the answer?" We say yes.

Hundreds of new rebels joined XR Lincolnshire over a few weeks and more are joining every day!! In a packed room we welcomed new rebels, had mini presentations about the climate crisis, the thinking behind XR, and what XR Lincolnshire has been doing and plans to do. 

In solidarity with XR Lincolnshire rebels in London, disruptive and mischievious XR activity was happening in Lincoln High Street, with three wise monkeys seeing, hearing and speaking no climate change, whilst surrounded by symbolic dead canaries hung in the trees!

Rebels from XR Lincolnshire were there from the very beginning, 8.30am in Parliament Square on the 1st day of the rebellion. We held our corner of the square until the police finally got their way after more than a week of joyful defiance, singing, learning, sharing, laughing, dancing and much more! 

We had a co-ordinated banner drop from vantage points in Lincoln City centre with slogans such as "climate change will affect us all," “is a council’s duty to the people or the oil industry?,” “time is running out, act now” and “wake up.” 

We sprayed the windows of Barclays Bank in Lincoln High Street to highlight their blame in the climate crisis. Barclays is the worst offender in Europe and has a long history of financing violent fossil fuel extraction across the  world, bankrolling social and environmental destruction. 

We met and planned lots of new actions, see the events calendar above and come along! We also heard what the different working groups have been doing, get in touch if you'd like to join one of these: actions & logistics; arts; wellbeing; outreach and training; finance; media and messaging.

Our first action was a die in and march in Lincoln city centre to highlight the climate emergency and the fate of humanity if urgent action is not taken. We co-ordinated with Youth Strike 4 Climate and Plastic Free Lincoln, and in total about 150 protestors were there.

An anti-fracking activist was in court following her protest on February 22nd in Skellingthorpe, outside Lyons & Sons, a transport firm providing services to fracking companies. We supported her action by congregating with banners and leaflets outside Lincoln Magistrates Court. 

We had fun making lots of colourful banners to get people's attention at our first action. Check out the events calendar above and come and see our artwork on the street!

At a talk at Lincoln University, Chris Packham spoke inspiringly about Extinction Rebellion holding up one of our leaflets. He said that politicians were ignoring climate breakdown warnings from scientists so it was time for 'ordinary people', like those taking a stand with Extinction Rebellion, to make them listen.