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16 January: Stop Canford Incinerator
Today the Extinction Rebellion Wimborne Pink Rebels supported XR BCP’s action outside BCP Council. Canford Incinerator would be just four miles from Wimborne.
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Incineration is the dirtiest form of energy production.
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Toxic emissions will damage the quality of the air we breathe.
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Greenhouse gases emitted will drive climate change.
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Incineration ruins all our efforts to recycle.
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Incineration defeats the circular economy. Let’s fight for a liveable future for ourselves, our children and grandchildren by consuming less, sharing, repurposing, passing around.
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Traffic will increase to transport rubbish to burn.
The Pink Rebels greeted BCP councillors on the way to their planning meeting. We sang lots of incinerator songs; eg to the tune of ”If You’re Happy and You Know It”:
“If you care about our air, take a stand,
If you care about our air, take a stand ,
Canford smoke will fill our sky,
It’s polluting that’s no lie,
If you care about our air, TAKE A STAND”
#StopCanfordIncinerator
17 February: XRW Meeting
All welcome. 7.30 pm, Cafe @ Allendale
Accessible.
It’s time to meet up with your lovely XRW friends. Hear about our plans: Pink Rebel actions, outreach, processions, crap-o-meters, climate-o-meters, leafleting, etc.
WHY?
We need to continue to raise awareness of the climate and nature emergencies and how local issues are adding to them.
Including:
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Canford incinerator
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Shaftesbury Estate’s continued ownership and exploitation of Lough Neagh
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Wessex Water and sewage
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Dorset Council and glyphosate
Come along and find out about our plans for 2025:
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Wimborne’s first ever Funeral for Nature
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Fossil Fuel Proliferation Treaty
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Extinction Rebellion strategy
An opportunity to spend time with likeminded people. Everyone welcome. Bring your family, friends, neighbours … Coffee, tea, beer etc to purchase at the cafe. Looking forward to seeing you all.
#StopCanfordIncinerator
#SaveLoughNeagh
27 February: XRW Meeting
More and more people are worried about the climate and nature emergencies.
Come along to our meeting at 1.30pm on Thursday 27 February at the Minster Room, The Kings Head:
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meet likeminded people
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hear about our plans
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share your concerns for yourself, your family and your community
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Find out why Canford Incinerator poses a threat to Wimborne
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Hear about how we are raising awareness
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Help us plan our outreach and actions.
Tea, coffee, cake and cream teas available to purchase at the bar.
#StopCanfordIncinerator
1st March: Stop Canford Incinerator
Outreach in Broadstone
XRW Pink Rebels will be in Broadstone this morning. We will process, outreach, raise awareness of Canford incinerator. This is the first of many on this subject.
Please sign the petition if you live, work, study in the BCP area. https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx
#StopCanfordIncinerator
27th March: Stop Canford Incinerator, Wimborne outreach
XRW Pink Rebels will be in Wimborne this morning. We will process, outreach, raise awareness of Canford incinerator. This is the first of many on this subject.
Please sign the petition if you live, work, study in the BCP area. https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx
#StopCanfordIncinerator
29th March: Perenco Out
Saturday, March 29th, 12noon - 2pm
Poole Quay
Organised by XRBCP.
See the XRW Pink Rebels processing, singing.
We’re coming together to mark the second anniversary of the Poole Harbour oil spill and shine a spotlight on Perenco’s poor safety record and their exploitation of communities in the Global South.
Flag, banners and an outreach stall to help spread awareness.
Our protest will feature a beach scene complete with oil-covered sea birds – a powerful visual of the future we face if Perenco’s oil extraction continues in Poole Harbour.
Important note: The fake oil is non-toxic, biodegradable, and washable.
3rd April: Stop Canford Incinerator
Thursday 3rd April 9-10am. Assemble from 8.50am.
Demonstration outside Bournemouth Civic Centre.
See the Pink Rebels in action with their incinerator songs!
Drummers and a bit of theatricality.
Pre-liaised with Dorset Police.
All creativity welcome, though planners are mindful that the Register Office will be operating at that time, so noisy elements are being located further away. Avoid death imagery, such as skulls.
#StopCanfordIncinerator
22 April: Active Hope for Earth Day, Wimborne
Tuesday 22 April 9.45 - 12 noon.
Active Hope is about what you actually do. Join us in Wimborne for Earth Day Tuesday 22 April. We will process, sing, chant, outreach, form circles, hold placards, stand in solidarity
What can YOU do?
💚OBJECT TO CANFORD INCINERATOR
💚Join us, here and now, and in the future.
Write to your councillor ASAP (either BCP or Dorset)✍️
Autogenerated letter (do personalise). Ask them to speak at June 12th planning meeting on Canford Magna Incinerator
Contact the Environment Agency by 11.59pm on Friday 23 May✍️
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pscpublicresponse@environment-agency.gov.uk
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Environment Agency Permitting and Support Centre, Land Team, Quadrant 2, 99 Parkway Avenue, Sheffield, S9 4WF.
Application number EPR/SP3127SF/A001.
Do you live in Bearwood and Merley ward? 🗓️
Attend a public meeting 5.30 Friday 9 May. Book a FREE ticket NOW
Not sure if you live in Bearwood and Merley ward? Enter your postcode here
https://democracy.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx
Want to know more about Canford incinerator?🙋
See XRW’s FAQs on Canford incinerator https://xrb.link/YH91l9OM
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #wimborne #StopCanfordIncinerator
SEE WHAT WE DID IN 2024
15 February
4pm-6pm Launch of Extinction Rebellion Wimborne's Climate & Nature Cafe ☕
Cafe @ The Allendale
A community-focused, safe and informal space to share feelings about the climate and nature crises over a cup of tea. Many don’t find it easy to share their concerns with those around them, particularly when everyone else seems to be carrying on as normal. A warm, friendly, space. Light refreshments available to buy.
21 February
7.30pm UK zoom about Insure Our Future in London 26 Feb-2 March
What’s it about? What’s happening and when?
Register to find out more
21 February
Defend Our Juries, London
Contact us for more information or visit Defend Our Juries
22 February
7.30pm-9pm Extinction Rebellion Wimborne event at Kings Head
“Will Planting Trees Solve the Climate Crisis?” 🌳
The climate and nature crises are huge challenges. Tree planting is often focused on as a major solution. But is it the answer?
Our speaker is James Bullock, Professor of Ecology.
Have your questions ready for the Q&A.
Are you in Purbeck … Dorchester … Weymouth?
We’ll bring the talk to your group! ♻️
Contact us for more information.
See Facebook event
24 February
XR BCP/Greenpeace/FOE “Unite to Survive” event at Dolphin Centre
See Facebook event for details
26 Feb-3 March
Insure Our Future
London & nationally. Your opportunity to tell the insurance companies not to insure new oil and gas projects. Join XR Wimborne in London. Find out more.
What’s insurance got to do with the climate crisis?
It’s the 'Achilles Heel' of the fossil fuel industry. Insurers give companies like Shell, BP and ExxonMobil the ability to drill as the planet burns: No insurance = no fossil fuels.
Just 20 companies insure 70% of the world’s fossil fuel industry and a large number of them are based in the UK.
Climate activism is working
New coal power plants, EACOP, Cambo - all now almost uninsurable. It’s time to target oil and gas insurance.
Join in
Join the Carbon Bomb Defusal Squad, see Facebook event
Join the Insure our Future Telegram channel
Join XR South West Broadcast Telegram channel
Digital Rebellion
Can't make it to any of the Insure Our Future events in person? Please join Digital Rebellion to pressurise the insurance companies via their inboxes, social media channels and phones!
28 February
7.30-8.30pm Extinction Rebellion Wimborne's Action Group online meeting
Contact us to join in.
29 February
4pm-5.30pm Extinction Rebellion Wimborne's Climate & Nature cafe ☕
Cafe @ The Allendale
A community-focused, safe and informal space to share feelings about the climate and nature crises over a cup of tea. Many don’t find it easy to share their concerns with those around them, particularly when everyone else seems to be carrying on as normal. A warm, friendly, space. Light refreshments available to buy.
See Facebook event
18 March
Wimborne's Connection to Ecological Catastrophe. St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles
We protested against the EARL OF SHAFTESBURY’S role in one of the UK’s most serious cases of ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION
The Earl owns the UK’s biggest lake, Lough Neagh.
Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland, is suffering an ecological catastrophe.
XR Wimborne’s Pink Rebels protested in Wimborne St Giles, the Earl’s seat.
We demand the Earl trigger the break clauses in his sand dredging contracts, and that he transfer the Lough into public ownership.
Pollution from agricultural runoff and sewage has caused the rapid growth of toxic algae. This together with the ruthless excavation of sand from the lake bed (from which the Earl of Shaftesbury profits) has led to plummeting numbers of migratory birds, fish, eel and insects
The habitat of Lough Neagh is of international importance and must be saved
Here's the link to our great little film:
23 March
Stop Perenco 🛢️
11am assemble Norden Park & Ride BH20 5DW what3words: ///manages.talkative.remaking
Midday - Family friendly march to Wytch Farm with allies followed by rally.
Join Extinction Rebellion Wimborne's Pink Rebels! 💖
An oil spill a year ago from Perenco’s Wytch Farm endangered the precious biodiversity of Poole Harbour
See Facebook event
11 April
Meet James Orr, Director of Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland
The Earl of Shaftesbury owns The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. He’s profiting from destructive sand dredging of the lough’s bed.
Meet James Orr, Director of Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland to find out about the many challenges the lough faces.
Here's the link to our great little film:
13 April
Dorset Council, Stop Spraying Glyphosate Now!
Pink Rebels in Wimborne Minster, Dorset called out Dorset Council for their inveterate use of glyphosate on our streets and pavements.
We urged people to make the local elections the BEE ELECTIONS
Glyphosate harms honey bees and bumblebees
UK flying insects declined by nearly
60% in less than 20 years (Buglife)
Small tortoiseshell butterfly declined 82% in UK since 1976 (UKBMS)
41% of insects worldwide threatened with extinction (Buglife)
Glyphosate harms humans
Probable cause of cancer (World Health Organisation)
Plausible link to Parkinson's disease (The Lancet)
It's in our urine (Journal of the National Cancer Institute)
14 April
Cycling Rebellion Bournemouth
Campaign for 20mph speed limit.
(See Cycling Rebellion Facebook)
20 April
XR South West regional event
“Funeral for Nature”, Bath.
Shout out for Red Rebels - would you like to be part of the record breaking number of Red Rebels?
Contact us for more details and/or to meet up with your Wimborne friends
See Facebook event
16 May
Council For Nature
Join us Thursday 16th May to demand Dorset Council restore and protect nature in Dorset
22 June
RESTORE NATURE NOW
TAKE THE COACH FROM WIMBORNE Affordable Dorset coach to London for Restore Nature Now 22nd June. Join over 150 supporting organisation on this family friendly nature march
27 June
Save Lough Neagh!
The Realisation Festival https://realisationfestival.com starts on Thursday 27th June at the estate of the Earl of Shaftesbury, St Giles House, in Wimborne St Giles, Dorset. The Pink Rebels will politely greet attendees with placards and leaflets with information about the ecological catastrophe unfolding at Lough Neagh, and the Earl of Shaftesbury's connection.
The Earl of Shaftesbury profits from sand dredging of the largest lake in British Isles: Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland. He profits from natural habitat being scooped up & carried away.
Here's the link to our great little film:
13 July
12 noon to 5pm The Green Fair at the Arches
Blandford Railway Arches, Langton Meadows in Blandford Forum
15 July
Perenco Out!
Wytch Farm oilfield in Dorset is doddering & old. Perenco must SHUT IT DOWN before it causes any more damage: the 2023 oil spill into Poole Harbour must never happen again
Wimborne’s Pink Rebels join XR Purbeck & XR BCP today outside Perenco’s Furzebrook offices
18 July
Council for Nature
Dorset Council, Stop Spraying Glyphosate Now!
XRW Pink Rebels and other Dorset environmental groups gather outside Dorset Council to support a COUNCIL MOTION to protect Dorset‘s nature. Dorset Council must STOP SPRAYING GLYPHOSATE (roundup) on our streets and pavements. Glyphosate destroys nature and harms human health
3 August
Stop Jailing Truth Tellers Rally
Parliament Square
This rally is for everyone who wants this to be a country where people aren’t banned from speaking about climate change in court.
6 August
Extinction Rebellion Wimborne General Meeting
ALL WELCOME to our meeting Tuesday 6 August, 7pm for 7.30 start. CAFE AT THE ALLENDALE, BH21 1AS. Beer, wine, tea, coffee, cake to buy. Come along for a very friendly and interesting evening. *YOU* will be setting the agenda! Everyone will get a chance to speak (if you want to! - no pressure).
Here are the options:
Restore Nature Now March
Climate protestors in prison
Sewage in the Stour: Don’t pay for Dirty Water
Dorset Council, Stop Spraying Glyphosate
Upgrade Democracy, Windsor Great Park 30 August - 1st September
We ❤️ love ❤️ the National Trust … but not Barclays!
We’re off to Kingston Lacy this Friday and Saturday.
Earl of Shaftesbury: Save Lough Neagh
Watch our little film.
Extinction Rebellion - what’s it all about?
Ask us a question.
Want to organise an XR action?
All you need to know!
PLEASE HELP WIMBORNE FOOD BANK
Bring a food donation for WIMBORNE FOOD BANK.
Check their website or Facebook page for items they urgently require.
Thank you.
9th & 10th August
We ❤️ love ❤️ the National Trust … but not Barclays!
Kingston Lacy
We’re off to Kingston Lacy. A national campaign preliaised with the National Trust who have given their permission. Barclays Bank is the worst bank in Europe for investing in fossil fuels. Join us at Kingston Lacy in the courtyard where we will be outreaching. Sign and share the petition urging the National Trust to drop Barclays .
How about your bank? Need help switching to a more planet friendly bank? Help here.
30 August - 1 September
Upgrade Democracy Occupation
Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Family-friendly event. Fully liaised with police and park.
Unite to demand a Citizens' Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice.
So why camp out on the King’s lawn?
Simple answer, our system is outdated and broken at every level. The monarchy is just one example of unelected power, wealth and influence. By gathering thousands at this symbolic site near where the Magna Carta was signed, we show our commitment to a fairer, more inclusive system. Our democracy needs an upgrade. We must amplify our demand for citizens’ assemblies
“This is a call to revolution. The Earth is under threat. It cannot cope with all that we demand of it. It is losing balance and we humans are causing this to happen." - Prince Charles, 2010 (from his book ‘Harmony’)
We are not targeting a person, but the broken system. Windsor Castle is a symbol of that system.
Where
The Occupation is on The Long Walk
Accommodation
Camping. Toilets are sorted. Accommodation is being explored for those Rebels not wanting to camp
Programme
Follow links below for plans and how you can join in.
Links
Press release
Why Windsor?
Join the Telegram chat
Join the Facebook event
More Info on the Rebel Toolkit
Follow the broadcast
10 September
JP Morgan, Bournemouth
Outreach to employees in collaboration with XR Health and XRBCP.
JP Morgan is the world's biggest financier of fossil fuels, $434 billion since the Paris Agreement. JP Morgan knows climate change is an existential treat, yet it says the world must rely on carbon capture to sort out JP Morgan's mess.
JP Morgan is the second biggest foreign funder of oil and gas exploration in the Amazon. It invests in companies implicated in environmental destruction and violations of indigenous rights.
JP Morgan must
Urgently phase out fossil fuel investment
Ditch the greenwash
Commit to Paris Agreement aligned carbon emissions targets (with no accounting tricks!)
Improve and expand their environmental and human right policies
28 September
Wessex Water, Stop Sewage Pollution Now
Blandford Forum
Join the Pink Rebels with their all new crap-o-meter.
Did you know?
Wessex Water dumped raw sewage into the River Stour 893 times for 9634 hours in 2023, an increase on 2022.
Wessex Water dumped raw sewage into rivers, seas and bathing areas 41,453 times in 2023, an increase on 2022.
Wessex Water prefers to pay dividends to its shareholders - £4.25 billion since privatisation - than to keep the sewers up to dat5.
Wessex Water has immense debts totalling £2.6 billion. 19% of the money we pay to Wessex Water is used to service their debts.
22 November
Read for the Planet
Marking Cop29
Bridge by Wimborne library
Join us on the bridge over the Allen near the library to mark Cop29 by amplifying the voices calling for Climate Finance for the Global South.
Why?
UN’s climate negotiations continue at COP29 in Azerbaijan, a petrochemical state implicated in ethnic cleansing. But there is so much at stake for the Global South, we can’t just dismiss COP29 as another failed conference.
Did you know that the Global South has contributed less than 4% of greenhouse gases yet is suffering the most from climate change? Drought, crop failure and famine. Cyclones and mudslides. Heatwaves and sea level rise.
What?
The purpose of COP29 is for the rich countries to agree to pay climate finance to the Global South.
Developing countries need large injections of cash (grants not interest bearing loans!) to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather, compensation for the irreparable damage they are already suffering.
5th December
Stop Canford Incinerator
The Pink Rebel Choir serenade Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Councillors arriving at the Western BCP Planning Committee Meeting today.
“Canford Incinerator
Will be a climate fiasco
Canford Incinerator
What about net zero?
“Canford Incinerator
Forever chemicals, toxins
Canford Incinerator
PCBs and dioxins”
(To the tune of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer)
Canford incinerator which will belch toxins and pose a serious health risk to residents, schools, businesses across east Dorset (including Wimborne and Colehill), Bournemouth and Poole.
Burning plastic is as polluting as coal and is a disaster for the climate and recycling.
#StopCanfordIncinerator
20 December
XRW Christmas social
HAPPY XMAS LOVE, XRW
Our group had a busy year raising awareness of local, national and international environmental issues. Join us next year for marches, singing, pink rebel actions, banner drops, leafleting, outreach, meetings, social events etc. You don’t have to be in the frontline of actions or take part in every single action. Help and support behind the scenes is always appreciated
Huge thank you to everyone who has participated and/or supported us this year