Several thousand supporters of protest group Extinction Rebellion gathered outside Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park on Saturday for in start of in groups latest campaign in central London.
hundreds of multi-colored flags with the symbol of “extinction” of by 11 a.m., an environmental protest movement fluttered over the lawns closest to the Marble Arch as samba groups warmed up up.
XR vowed to ‘stop capital’ over coming week, with new tactics developed in response to increasingly violent police intervention that minimized group attempts cause destruction last August.
In Hyde Park police vans and officers on horses patrolled the periphery of crowd, but the presence of the police seemed insignificant.key. The crowd moved off around noon for march through central London with roadblocks on in way.
Direct actions were planned on fringe of march against specific goals, but XR remains silent on details of What could those goals be?
In the morning the protesters mostly crowded around joining with interest groups, greeting friends who they haven’t seen since the previous action, and enjoying the splash of spring sun.
Niki Gulianis, 33, from London, standing in middle of crowd with her nine month old daughter clio, in buggy. She asked why she joined protest, she replied: “All the reasons.”
“I have lived away from the UK, but I have admired the movement from afar and I think the turnout here is inspiring. I lived in New York and I saw the echo of This is in New York and I’m very happy join today,” Gulianis said.
“I think we need radical action. I think the oil and gas lobby often good Job of manufacturing us I think it’s about individual consumption, but we need change everything.”
Along the edges of crowd, with a small groupwas Marcelo Cervone, 28 years old, who adorned the top of his baseball cap with XR stickers. He said: “I want guard my son future … he is four months old and I want make sure he can dream but, as we were allowed, dream big”.
Chervone said he protested with XR for some years. “We all hope that we can do away with fossil fuels. economy. this number one goal: jump immediately out of fossil fuel economy,” he said.
Dr. Graham Hayes, Aston University Academician who research social movement, was also among those gathered in Hyde Park. He observed, researched and analyzed XR from the very beginning. in 2018.
“It’s not another thing, it’s felt like looked the same like three years ago, but probably with fewer people and obviously he was driven out in a less closed space”Hayes said.
” move from Parliament Square to Hyde Park also that move from three years of interaction with police and unable to keep it public space”.
Hayes said he believes ideological barriers hinder the development of the XR. “I took a lot of photos of all different signs; so much focused on children or your children’s children,” he said.
“There’s always a point of how justice is related to future. There is an offset of justice. As usual, a lot justice and it’s about Africa, and of Of course, this is really important, but it is not here and not now. i’m trying to see for things about capitalism, for example and this hard to find.”
