VIDEO: XR Explain Why They Smashed Murdoch's Windows

"They're basically enabling the public to accept our own suicide".

Members of Extinction Rebellion were arrested this week for cracking the front windows of News UK’s London HQ. They were protesting the publisher’s coverage of climate chaos in Europe, which in many cases has downplayed or denied the climate emergency.

They also sprayed “TELL THE TRUTH” and “40 DEGREES = DEATH” in chalk paint, and pasted pages of the Sun showing climate-denying/omitting headlines onto adjoining walls.

“Special care was taken to ensure no one was hurt when the windows were cracked”, XR’s press release noted.

Among the XR members at the scene was former Sun and Daily Mail journalist Steve Tooze, who shared insider knowledge of corporate media’s approach to the climate crisis:

“These newspapers have spent 30 life-or-death years denying or ignoring the climate crisis to ensure that Business As Usual keeps the money flowing into their already obscenely-bloated bank accounts. As a result, millions of us still have no clue about the terrifying dangers that threaten us. 

“Newspapers that treat a deadly heat wave as an invitation to a fun day on the beach and use it to advance their puerile and divisive culture war nonsense are not newspapers at all. They are propaganda sheets for two very rich and evil men. We are no longer prepared to sit at home feeling angry and despairing at the lies and disinformation.”

Tooze and others, including scientists, doctors and media activists, spoke to RealMedia about the action: