Dear Rebel John,

As we close out 2025, we want to take a moment to celebrate—something extraordinary, something you helped make possible.

Through the solidarity of major partners like Oxfam and XR Netherlands (XRNL), and the unwavering support of regular donors like you, we distributed £86,000 in grants to 62 XR groups across Asia, Africa, and Latin America this year.

These grants supported frontline organizing, trainings, actions, art builds, and community-led climate initiatives—the heartbeat of our movement—and also funded several local XR groups to mobilize for COP30, ensuring that Global South voices and demands for climate justice were present on the world stage. None of this would have been possible without your continuous belief in Global South leadership.

As we look towards 2026, we are committed to deepening this impact and ensuring more Global South groups have the support they need to rise, resist, and protect their communities.

Will you help us begin the New Year strong?
Your renewed support today helps sustain this global web of climate defenders.

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Thirty years after the first COP, the planet stood at a critical inflection point, with frontline communities already paying the price for extractive projects driven by global greed. As COP30 took place in Brazil at the heart of one of the world’s most vital ecosystems.

XR groups across Latin America were at the forefront, ensuring that the voices of affected communities were heard. Through coordinated actions, public mobilization, and creative nonviolent resistance, they amplified the demands of Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, and local residents defending their lands, livelihoods, and futures. In this pivotal moment, XR Latin America demonstrated that climate justice was rooted not in empty promises, but in accountability, lived experience, and people power.

All coordinated, all unstoppable.

Rebel with Us

Rebels took it to the streets to protest the 1,443 km East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)—an illegal and destructive project that has already harmed hundreds of people in Uganda through land grabbing, displacement, and environmental damage. Local XR groups in Uganda, together with allies across Africa, are rallying behind the Stop EACOP campaign in a growing wave of coordinated resistance.

We know our strategy will work because we plan to run this campaign for 2 years of consistent rebellion building across Africa.

As the world is screaming Net Zero, this is our moment to show those in power that Africa will not be sacrificed, that affected communities are united, and that we will continue to resist projects like EACOP with courage, care, and determination. From the protection of the Virunga peatlands, where sustained grassroots pressure helped defend one of the world’s most critical carbon sinks, to today’s mobilizations against EACOP, people power has proven its ability to confront extractive interests.

With love and courage,

Bart, Fidele, Ibrahim, Kamate, Florien, Bryan, Josh, Daphine, Carol, Shan, Letty, Amule, Moses, James, Allan, Sainey and Annette.
On behalf of XR Africa

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