In the run-up to the next phase of its International Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion today unveils details of two new truth-telling platforms. Whistleblower gateway, TruthTeller.life, offers a safe way for concerned citizens to anonymously expose what they know about the true scale of the crisis and how it will impact us all. Whistleblowers will be directed […]
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Extinction Rebellion launches new ‘whistleblower gateway’ TruthTeller initiative to Tell The Truth- In the run-up to the next phase of its International Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion today unveils details of two new truth-telling platforms.
- Whistleblower gateway, TruthTeller.life, offers a safe way for concerned citizens to anonymously expose what they know about the true scale of the crisis and how it will impact us all.
- Whistleblowers will be directed to disclose information to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a global network of investigative reporters working around the world.
- Also launching today is Extinction Rebellion-supported independent newspaper The Hourglass, featuring a front page exclusive with a climate scientist who breaks his silence after almost 30-years
Extinction Rebellion today unveils TruthTeller.Life, a whistleblower gateway for concerned citizens with information about the Climate and Ecological Emergency to expose what they know.
Developed with Extinction Rebellion’s support, Truthteller will provide a safe, easy and anonymous way to leak unpublished information to a global network of journalists. With the world continuing to ignore the scientific warnings and head towards a cliff edge, TruthTeller is asking those inside the global system to expose the truth about our civilisation’s vulnerability.
In particular, TruthTeller is appealing to anyone with insider information that will help expose the near-term threat to our daily existence from extreme weather and ecological collapse – for example the vulnerability of our supply of food, water and energy and the consequent risk of food shortages and power cuts. TruthTeller also hopes to hear from anyone with information about efforts to conceal the truth about the crisis and the effects to come.
TruthTeller believes that once the truth is shared and these stories told globally, a mass consensus for urgent and meaningful action will finally follow.
Those visiting the site will be shown how to share what they know safely and anonymously with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a global network of investigative reporters working for the best news organisations around the world.
Extinction Rebellion is supporting TruthTeller.Life as part of its commitment to globalising the first of its three demands: Tell The Truth, which will be one of the key themes of the next phase of the International Rebellion starting 7 October.
The launch of TruthTeller comes as Extinction Rebellion also unveils an independent newspaper,
The Hourglass, whose first edition features a front page exclusive with a climate scientist apologising for his inaction on the Climate & Ecological Emergency.
Marc Lopatin, one of TruthTeller.Life’s co-founders, said:“We want to help shift a decades-old story about climate change, into a new and urgent narrative about civilisation’s present-day vulnerability to near-term shocks, posed by extreme weather and ecological collapse. We believe the most powerful messengers for this vital, untold story are those working inside the very system that’s taking us over the cliff. By anonymously disclosing unpublished information, and giving courage to others to do the same, the truths they share will help drive urgent and planetary-wide change.”Clare Farrell, one of Extinction Rebellion’s co-founders, said:“This is a call to anyone who knows that their organisation is withholding or ignoring the truth. We need your courageous contribution at this historic moment to produce a tipping point and finally take the action needed to avert a climate catastrophe.“Innovation has been key to Extinction Rebellion’s success. By supporting a whistleblower platform we’re exploring creative new ways to fulfil our first demand, Tell the Truth. Extinction Rebellion’s model of non-violent direct action will amplify the disclosures that will come from TruthTeller, to illustrate the fragility of our civilisation and to encourage more radical honesty and disclosure.”Notes to EditorsFor Extinction Rebellion: Email: press@risingup.org.uk
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What is the relationship between Extinction Rebellion and TruthTeller.Life?TruthTeller.Life is an independent initiative that has been supported by Extinction Rebellion in the form of desk space, voluntary living expenses and media & messaging support. This support will continue for the medium-term such that TruthTeller.Life can carry out its outreach strategy, gather support from multiple sources and become freestanding. In parallel – and independently of TruthTeller.Life – Extinction Rebellion may choose to organise actions in support of the aims of TruthTeller.Life.
What is TruthTeller.Life?TruthTeller.Life is an Extinction Rebellion-inspired initiative to help accelerate global awareness of the Climate & Ecological Emergency such that mass consensus exists among the general public for the type of urgent and scalable measures needed to prepare for a rapidly changing world. To achieve this, TruthTeller.Life exists to help shift a decades-old story about a family of invisible greenhouse gases, into a new and urgent narrative about civilisation’s present-day vulnerability to near-term shocks posed by extreme weather and ecological collapse. TruthTeller.Life believes the most powerful messengers for this vital, untold story are those working inside the very system that’s taking us over the cliff. By anonymously disclosing unpublished information, and giving courage to others to do the same, the truths they expose will help drive urgent and planetary-wide change.
Who is behind TruthTeller.Life?TruthTeller.Life developed out of conversations between a group of people volunteering with Extinction Rebellion, about the need to tell a nearer-term and more personal story behind the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Of this group, communications strategist Marc Lopatin and journalist Zoë Blackler went on to co-found TruthTeller.Life and can be contacted at voices@truthteller.life
What is the point of TruthTeller.Life? Why not ask people to just leak to a journalist?TruthTeller.Life believes those working inside key sectors of the global economy (agriculture, food, energy, water and insurance, to name but a few) have important truths to share with us all. These courageous TruthTellers need to know how important they are, even if the information they possess may not, by itself, seem particularly impactful. TruthTeller.Life wants them to know that no piece of the puzzle is too small. It’s only when these pieces are brought together that the big picture will emerge, and humanity can finally affect meaningful change.
What is the ICIJ?The ICIJ is a unique organisation. A U.S.-based nonprofit, with its own international reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organisations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world. Its network encompasses hundreds of the best investigative reporters from more than 90 countries and territories. Through this network it partners with more than 100 media organisations, from the world’s most renowned outlets, including the BBC, the New York Times, The Guardian and the Asahi Shimbun, to small regional nonprofit investigative outlets. The ICIJ has been behind some of the biggest disclosures in recent years, including the Swiss Leaks and the Panama Papers.
Is TruthTeller.Life asking people working for the UK government to break the Official Secrets Act?TruthTeller.Life is not encouraging anyone to commit a criminal act. What is being provided is an online gateway for people to anonymously disclose information they believe we would all benefit from knowing. TruthTeller.Life does not have any knowledge about, or control over, who visits the online gateway or acts on its recommendation.
What type of information is TruthTeller.Life hoping might be disclosed?TruthTeller.Life exists to help reveal civilisation’s present-day vulnerability to near-term shocks, posed by extreme weather and ecological collapse. The founders of TruthTeller.Life have a particular interest in attracting disclosure about essential sectors of the global economy built upon just-in-time supply principles. These include the supply of food, water and energy. For example, could a courageous TruthTeller reveal what our supermarkets are doing, or indeed, not doing about the near-term risk of disruption to the just-in-time supply of food from global markets? Likewise, people working in the global insurance industry are studying the future economic impacts of extreme weather. A TruthTeller from this industry may be able to show us a very different world from the one we take for granted today.
What about other people with information about the future who might want to disclose?While we believe the truth about the vulnerability of the global system is the big, untold story, we would encourage anyone with unpublished information that would shed light on the Climate & Ecological Emergency to share it via TruthTeller.Life. In particular, we would also encourage anyone working in organisations that are attempting to conceal or obfuscate the truth about the dire state we are in, to share what they know about attempts to mislead the public and impede action.
About Extinction Rebellion:Time has almost entirely run out to address the ecological crisis which is upon us, including the 6th mass species extinction, global pollution, and abrupt, runaway climate change. Societal collapse and mass death are seen as inevitable by scientists and other credible voices, with human extinction also a possibility, if rapid action is not taken.
Extinction Rebellion believes it is a citizen’s duty to rebel, using peaceful civil disobedience, when faced with criminal inactivity by their Government.
Extinction Rebellion’s key demands are:
- Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
- Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.
- Government must create and be led by the decisions of a Citizens’ Assembly on climate and ecological justice.
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This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion HandbookGet involved: About Rising Up!Extinction Rebellion is an initiative of the Rising Up! network, which promotes a fundamental change of our political and economic system to one which maximises well-being and minimises harm. Change needs to be nurtured in a culture of reverence, gratitude and inclusion while the tools of civil disobedience and direct action are used to express our collective power.
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