Extinction Rebellion says it will hold its most destructive protest yet on streets of London over next week call for the end of fossil fuels economy.
An environmental activist group that encourages supporters cause destruction through non-violent civil disobedience, will return to city from saturday with new tactics he claims to “create the most obstacles we have ever had”.
He told supporters to book a week off work and meet in Hyde Park on Saturday morning, promising them “a simple unstoppable rebellion design”, which “will facilitate mass flood of people stop the capital.
Some actions are already began. At 7 a.m on On Friday, activists blocked the Tower Bridge, with two people hanging from a bridge on hanging cords and others hanging a huge banner over This side demanding “End Fossil Fuels Now”.
xr said in statement: “Action taken place at the entrance to the city of London is the origin of fossil fuel financing in UK – and on the day before of April rebellion which begins tomorrow at 10 am in Hyde Park”.
Since April 1, XR activists have been blockading the Esso distribution terminal. in west London as part of just stop oil campaign. XR called these actions a “preface” to the planned mass protests. over this weekend and next week.
“We will return to the streets day by day until our immediate demand – for United Kingdom government end everything immediately new investment in fossil fuels is met”, group said in recent statement.
He called on supporters do sure they are free until April 17, which makes it “rebellion” shorter than the previous two weeks of protest against group organized, but organizers say they hope to return to the streets on next weekend.
Since 2018, XR has spent four extended campaigns of subversive protest on streets of London is calling for in government take measures on climate and biodiversity crisis.
group enjoys success in inspiring range of spin-off movement and in raising awareness of and environmental concerns among general public to levels never seen before.
But every time protesters returned en masse to the streets, the impact of their activities have dwindled as the police have learned to crack down on their blockades of bridges and key connections. And How with many social movements, long interregnum of The Covid pandemic and its limitations on social interaction interfered with XR ability organize.
XR organizers hope new strategy allow them to evade the police and again cause major failure in London. Attempts to seize and hold road junctions with big chunks of The infrastructure of the protest, which the police learned to quickly isolate and clean up, will be replaced for more mobile and adaptive blocks.
“We’re not going to come in with huge objects are a must, but the plan is to get a lot of people hold area using their bodies, remaining in roads and waiting areas,” a source told XR. “We’ll try to be really mobile also.”
Would “people moving around and trying to hold space by occupying places that are especially destructive and taking direct action… We want be mobile so that we can go to different areas if we want k. We want be super-mobile and hard pin down but we also want it should be really inclusive, easy to find and get involved.”
Breaking the law and arrest most likely remain main tactic. In posts on Telegram messaging app for supporters, XR says take disposable phones and newsletters with you with phone numbers of lawyers and leave an identity card at the address home.
In addition to the actions at the oil terminal, groups associated with XR launched campaigns this week. On Wednesday scientists and academics with Rebellion scientists plant fake oil at London headquarters of Shell, bye on Doctors of Thursday for XR blocked the road outside Her Majesty’s Treasury in Westminster.
Thursday morning Juliet Brown, 51 year old psychiatrist from London who sat in St. James park road outside in government department, said: “We know that the climate and environmental crisis is a health crisis. Global warming [and] air pollution is mainly due to burning of fossil fuel.
” government have declared a climate emergency, but they are still considering licensing new oil and gas fields [and] financing fossil fuels through tax credits, despite clear evidence and expert advice that we need end everything new immediate investment in fossil fuels.
