Hevva Hevva By Percy Robert Craft RCA, (1889)

Extinction Rebellion is a movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act urgently, justly and honestly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency, humbly following the noble Suffragettes and Civil Rights movements, who themselves were once outlawed and demonised.
Hevva Hevva was selected by Extinction Rebellion for two reasons. The Hevva Hevva cry was used by lookouts to raise the alarm that the pilchard shoals were in sight. Extinction Rebellion’s first aim is to raise the alarm about the climate and ecological emergency. We need to face up to and react with urgency as we are already seeing impacts across the world. It also shows a community working together in a sustainable way supplying their own seasonal foods. It’s a scene reflecting a low carbon existence. The artist Percy Craft was also a Rebel, involved in the Newlyn Fish Riots.
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