Extinction Rebellion launches campaign of financial disobedience

Group stages debt and tax strikes to expose political economy's complicity' in ecological crisis

Extinction Rebellion is launching a campaign of financial civil disobedience aimed at exposing the political economy's complicity" in the unfolding ecological crisis.

The group - which has staged some of the UK's biggest civil disobedience protests over the past two years - is turning its attention to what it says will be a sustained campaign of debt and tax strikes. It is also asking people to redirect" loans from banks that finance fossil fuel projects to frontline organisations fighting for climate justice.