Extinction Rebellion founder calls for mass psychedelic disobedience
https://www.newscientist.com/article/221...obedience/
EXCERPT: A co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion environmental movement has called for a mass ingestion of psychedelic substances in protest against the criminalisation of drugs. “I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice,” Gail Bradbrook said in a press briefing as part of Breaking Convention, a conference on psychedelics in London on 16 August.
[...] Studies have also suggested that experiences with psychedelic drugs might change people’s political views and their attitudes towards nature. Participants in a small clinical trial of psilocybin for depression scored more highly on questionnaires measuring “nature relatedness” and lower for authoritarian views after treatment, with effects persisting for up to a year. Surveys of the general population have also found that psychedelic use correlates with these. Rosalind Watts, a clinical psychologist at Imperial College London who has guided patients through psilocybin therapy, said there is an important link between mental health and the ecological crisis. “We are in an epidemic of depression and disconnection from ourselves and our environment,” she said. (MORE)
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Extinction Rebellion is forced to apologise for 'cultural appropriation and racism' by other climate change activists for using a naked white woman with dreadlocks to promote themselves
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ation.html
EXCERPT: A climate change protest group have been forced to apologise after they were accused of cultural appropriation and racism for using a white woman with dreadlocks to promote their cause. Activist group Extinction Rebellion NSW posted a picture to Facebook last week of the topless female protester holding a whiteboard. 'If your bathtub was overflowing, you wouldn't immediately reach for the mop, you'd first turn off the tap,' the sign said. 'That's what we need to do with fossil fuels.'
The controversial picture caused a stir in the comments, with viewers slamming the white woman's hair choice. 'Guys did NO-ONE question if it was a good idea to propagate cultural appropriation before posting this? A white person with dreads? Really?' one person questioned. [...] Other viewers took umbrage with the fact the woman appeared to be naked in the picture. 'What was up with just the words? What's with using a beautiful naked girl to advertise it? Seems to send a very bizarre message,' one person said.
[...] The activist group released an apology the day later, acknowledging viewers had flagged the photo as 'racist' and 'cultural appropriation'. (MORE)
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Extinction Rebellion plans more mass disturbances (BBC video report)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-envi...sturbances
INTRO: Roger Hallam, the co-founder of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion says more disturbances are planned for London. “This October thousands of people will come to the streets of London and they will stay in the streets of London... You will see mass disturbances. It will be non-violent, it will be respectful and it will be disruptive," he told BBC Hardtalk Stephen Sackur.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9HyaxctatdA
https://www.newscientist.com/article/221...obedience/
EXCERPT: A co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion environmental movement has called for a mass ingestion of psychedelic substances in protest against the criminalisation of drugs. “I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice,” Gail Bradbrook said in a press briefing as part of Breaking Convention, a conference on psychedelics in London on 16 August.
[...] Studies have also suggested that experiences with psychedelic drugs might change people’s political views and their attitudes towards nature. Participants in a small clinical trial of psilocybin for depression scored more highly on questionnaires measuring “nature relatedness” and lower for authoritarian views after treatment, with effects persisting for up to a year. Surveys of the general population have also found that psychedelic use correlates with these. Rosalind Watts, a clinical psychologist at Imperial College London who has guided patients through psilocybin therapy, said there is an important link between mental health and the ecological crisis. “We are in an epidemic of depression and disconnection from ourselves and our environment,” she said. (MORE)
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Extinction Rebellion is forced to apologise for 'cultural appropriation and racism' by other climate change activists for using a naked white woman with dreadlocks to promote themselves
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ation.html
EXCERPT: A climate change protest group have been forced to apologise after they were accused of cultural appropriation and racism for using a white woman with dreadlocks to promote their cause. Activist group Extinction Rebellion NSW posted a picture to Facebook last week of the topless female protester holding a whiteboard. 'If your bathtub was overflowing, you wouldn't immediately reach for the mop, you'd first turn off the tap,' the sign said. 'That's what we need to do with fossil fuels.'
The controversial picture caused a stir in the comments, with viewers slamming the white woman's hair choice. 'Guys did NO-ONE question if it was a good idea to propagate cultural appropriation before posting this? A white person with dreads? Really?' one person questioned. [...] Other viewers took umbrage with the fact the woman appeared to be naked in the picture. 'What was up with just the words? What's with using a beautiful naked girl to advertise it? Seems to send a very bizarre message,' one person said.
[...] The activist group released an apology the day later, acknowledging viewers had flagged the photo as 'racist' and 'cultural appropriation'. (MORE)
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Extinction Rebellion plans more mass disturbances (BBC video report)
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-envi...sturbances
INTRO: Roger Hallam, the co-founder of the environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion says more disturbances are planned for London. “This October thousands of people will come to the streets of London and they will stay in the streets of London... You will see mass disturbances. It will be non-violent, it will be respectful and it will be disruptive," he told BBC Hardtalk Stephen Sackur.