Several hundred #ExtinctionRebellion protesters blocking the road outside the Bank of England.
Today’s #ExtinctionRebellion protest is a mass breach of bail conditions, with rebels arrested over the past two weeks breaking their conditions by returning to the City of London.
“I’ve been arrested over 200 times in many different countries, I don’t think one more time is going to make much of a difference.”
Veteran peace campaigner Angie Zelter, 70, who is breaking a bail condition stipulating that she stays out of the City. #ExtinctionRebellion
“It feels quite wrong that I have been criminalised for doing what’s so logically and obviously the right thing given the emergency situation that we’re in.”
Team GB Olympian Etienne Stott MBE, who is also breaking bail conditions by joining #ExtinctionRebellion in the City.
“It seems extraordinarily petty to arrest us for obstructing when we’ve just had a summer of fires and floods and a heat dome, all over the world, because of the climate crisis.”
Simon Milner-Edwards, 64, from Manchester, whose bail conditions say he must leave the M25 area.
#ExtinctionRebellion targeted the Bank of England as a symbol of London’s financial district, through which they say flows 15% of all the world’s financing for fossil fuel projects.
I don’t think the police have joined @JustStop_Oil , but it looks like it. A dozen or so climate protesters currently blocking Horseguards, at the back gate to Downing St
Police currently stopping anyone from crossing the road in Parliament Square - to make sure no one stops in the middle @JustStop_Oil
Last autumn’s climate campaign, @InsulateLove, is back on the streets in Westminster as part of the @JustStop_Oil coalition
Back in the City, where #ExtinctionRebellion are on the march again, attempting to raise awareness of rising sea levels, as their latest rebellion draws to a close.
#ExtinctionRebellion’s protesters have paused in front of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
“Lloyds of London is an insurer of fossil fuel projects at a vast scale across the world and it’s the turning of the wheels of finance driving more and more of these destructive projects.”
#ExtinctionRebellion activist George Barda, from Bristol, on why protesters are here.