It was a dreary, dismal day on Saturday 9 December. The rain had been lashing down but abated somewhat as small groups started to come together outside the Civic Centre in Newcastle. This was the day when Climate Justice and Climate Action groups were coming together under the banner of ...

On Ash Wednesday, Tyneside XR, members of other local XR groups and Christian Climate Action held a vigil outside the offices of Ward Hadaway in Newcastle – the lawyers for West Cumbria Mining. A letter was handed in which detailed the reasons why the firm should cut their ties with ...

February 14th. St Valentine’s Day. A day to think about those who are very special to us. But it can also remind us of toxic relationships: those relationships that sometimes need an intervention to stop the toxicity and allow people to break free. Today, ordinary people from Tyneside Extinction Rebellion ...

Rebels from Tyneside XR met at the Angel of the North in Gateshead to watch the sun rise on the first day of this new year.  As the sun appeared on the horizon at 8:20am on 1 January 2023, a small group gathered by this local landmark to mark the ...

We hear history calling to us from the future. We catch glimpses of a new world of love, respect and regeneration, where we have restored the intricate web of all life. It’s a future that’s inside us all – located in the fierce love we carry for our children, ...

We invite you to pause, breathe, and get comfortable. Close your eyes if you would like to or soften your gaze. We are transitioning to regenerative cultures. These are cultures of respect and listening, in which people deal with conflicts when they arise, using short feedback loops to ...

Helen and Andy first got involved with Extinction Rebellion in Gateshead in February 2020 when people came from all over the country to protest against the opening of a new opencast mine in Pont Valley. “We couldn’t believe the commitment of these individuals who stood at the entrance to the ...

It’s that time of year where we look back over the last 365 days to see how far we have come…or not. Based on the Guardian’s Environmental review of 2022, we’ve created a simple, pretty bleak, and definitely not exhaustive, climate review of the past year.