I’m an Extinction Rebellion protester and I’ll be disrupting your work commute. Here’s why

This week thousands of ordinary Australians, and many thousands more across the globe, will disrupt major cities with rolling blockades to...

They will do so under the name of Extinction Rebellion (or XR for short), a new environmental movement.

As a result of their actions, your life may be disrupted. You may be forced to wait or find another route. You may even become angry.

Inevitably these protesters, myself included, will be reduced by some news media to just another bunch of climate activists.

I want to tell…