Extinction Rebellion wants activists to stage rent strikes, halt tax payments, and take out bank loans they never intend to repay in protest at an economic system they claim is fuelling a climate catastrophe.
With Extinction Rebellion, the climate change activist group, currently unable to take to the streets to demonstrate in a traditional fashion under the coronavirus lockdown and social distancing measures, they are planning acts of financial sabotage to ‘directly challenge the fundamental principles that govern our national and global economies.’
Internal documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday set out plans for a ‘Money Rebellion’ involving acts of financial sabotage to ‘directly challenge the fundamental principles that govern our national and global economies.’
Despite dire warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has plunged Britain into its worst recession for 300 years, the dossier details how the group – also known as XR – wants to launch a rent strike later this month.
It seeks to legitimize the protest by arguing that ‘our economic system is causing cancer in our planet’. It adds: ‘We will resist irresponsible lenders. Some of us will legally dispute debts, others will refuse to pay debts.’
Barclays Bank is named as a top target, with supporters encouraged to ‘take out a personal loan or a credit card’ and ‘publicly declare that they will not repay the debt.’ HSBC, NatWest, and Lloyds are also listed.
Activists are warned that in addition to being sued in the civil courts, they could face prosecution under the Fraud Act, but XR says the risk is outweighed by the damage caused to banks’ balance sheets and share prices.
Organizers hope the protests will mobilize broader popular support, saying: ‘Any negative publicity could have the same desired effect as any financial consequence of the rebellion.’
The detailed documents suggest that while the pandemic has forced XR to ditch its campaign of street protests, the movement wants to exploit the crisis.
‘Without pressure from activists, we won’t see the increasingly necessary shift to a green economy,’ the dossier says. ‘Just as we have lost our usual means of rebelling, a new opportunity has opened up for us in a time when it is vital that we act.’
It then outlines a desire to launch ‘direct actions against the organizations acting in support of the cancer-causing system (banks, accounting firms, investment bodies, regulatory bodies, legal firms, and so on)’.
XR hopes at least 5,000 supporters will refuse to pay their rent, adding: ‘Council tenants and private tenants alike can participate in the strike… on such a scale that it forces a society-wide conversation about our misguided economy.’
According to the documents, it will be followed by a tax strike involving 10,000 people who will sign a conditional commitment to withhold £100 of income tax.
h/t John R.
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Could they just be like radicals like Earth First and Earth Liberation Front(ELF)in the same as Sea Shepard’s founder Paul Watson who was named Hero of the Planet by that liberal rag TIME some years ago the facts that some years ago they caught this group attempting to sabotage High Voltage Electric Towers in Southern California
Walk into a bank – “I want to borrow some money.” hat do you have for security for the loan?” “Nothing.” “Who do you work for?” “How much do you make a week?” “Please wait while I check with your employer.” So, when you default, guess who hears all about it. You have effectively become a thief. Think you’re still going to have a job?
Or: “Yes, my house”. Guess what happens to your house when you default.
I always thought that there might be one or two, possibly as many as three, members of this organization who had some brains. Now I realize that I was wrong – there’s not one shred of intelligence among the entire outfit. The media should send them to Coventry.
its obvious these people are uneducated as they do not know that Patrick Moore who was the founder of Greenpeace has resigned as the green movement is out of control and Michael Moore has an excellent video on u tube rubbishing their policies and he originally was a greenie himself and got his eyes openened to the fact that the movement is big business controlled like Ikea 44m they are pawns in it all .
The Just Stinks Rebellion a whole bunch of Eco-Nazis/Watermelons wanting to take the UK back to the Dark Ages and i do mean Dark Ages these bunch of idiots are so convinced that Global Warming/Climate Change is real and they don’t give a darn about how many are harmed by their stupid GO GREEN Crusade these people are true fanatics and dangerous radical new age pagan cult of Earth Worshiping nuts
Are these the lunatics that were suppose to commit suicide in public?
What kept them?
Are they chicken?