Pictures from Day One of THE BIG ONE 21.4.23

Posted: 22nd April 2023

This is the plan:

Members of the XR Peace Council* will come together with Extinction Rebellion over April 21-24 to highlight how war, nuclear weapons and all military production, spending and arms sales undermine our security and cause climate chaos.

We are calling on the UK government to:

• Sign up to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, scrap Trident and ensure the total elimination of all nuclear arsenals
• Publish military Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions
• Stop funding nuclear power and nuclear weapons
• Boycott and divest from all companies that develop, make, and sell inhumane conventional and nuclear weapons
• Develop and promote effective peace-building approaches, skills, and resources to address causes and resolve injustices and conflicts

Based near the Ministry of Defence in the green space between Whitehall and the MoD building, XR Peace will be holding a series of creative actions, workshops, people’s assemblies and demonstrations throughout the weekend:

This was the programme:

7am  Meet in the gardens before departing in groups to leaflet outside the Ministry of Defence

9:15am  Procession around the MoD

10am  Workshop: How we achieve a world without nuclear weapons?

11am  Workshop: Wages not Weapons – addressing the cost of living crisis

12noon  XR Rhythms performing

12:45pm  Workshop: 90 seconds to midnight – no nuclear war

1:30pm  Workshop: War is bad for the planet too!

2:15pm  Workshop: War costs us the earth – organised by GCOMS UK

3pm  Procession around the MoD

4pm  Workshop: Lakenheath, 1st strike and climate

5pm  Raised Voices choir performing

5:30pm  Procession around MoD

6pm  End of programme