EXTINCTION Rebellion protesters have targeted News Corp by staging an overnight demonstration outside the printing presses for the Scottish Sun.
The environmental campaigners attempted to disrupt the distribution of the newspaper by protesting outside the print site’s gates.
Demonstrators held up banners emblazoned with “free the press” and “no to racist rhetoric”, along with mock newspapers criticising media bias.
Police Scotland said the protest was peaceful and no arrests were made.
Extinction Rebellion Glasgow activist Susanna Hotham, 27, said: “We are taking action tonight to make a statement about the lack of democracy in a press majority-owned by billionaires.
“The Sun perpetuates a xenophobic, racist and divisive narrative to advance their own agenda, profiting off of climate denialism and failing to acknowledge the climate emergency.
“The misinformation they spread has catastrophic effects for the communities affected by the rising temperatures, and cements the fate of the generations to come to live on an uninhabitable planet.”
The Extinction Rebellion Scotland Twitter account posted: “This escalation of our tactics attacks a core pillar of fossil fuel capitalism: A corrupt media owned by and run for the 1%, which feeds us lies about climate change, immigration and economics.
“We need a free press to tell the truth about the climate crisis, not one bound by billionaires. For one night, we are setting the agenda, not them.
“We’ve moved on from general disruption to target the institutions that are causing and covering up the climate and ecological emergency. The time for change is now.”
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