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Youth Strike for Climate

London. Fri 24 May 2019



 

 The march reaches the top of Whitehall

 and goes on to Trafalgar Square

 where some climbed onto the plinth around Nelson's column

 

 and on to the lions

 

 

 More marchers arrived from UCU and other London universities with a 'Climate Change Class War' banner

 as well as the UCL one

 and a man with a red wig and a gas mask and everyone went back down Whitehall to Parliament Square

 

 

 

 They moved through Parliament Square again and up Broad Sanctuary

 

 and as they passed Westminster Abbey someone at the front of the march held up a smoke flare

 

 

 

 The marchers stopped outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BEIS. Some went

 into the area behind the wall there and were threatened with arrest, but I think the police then walked away

 and the marchers left and made their way back to Parliament Square

 

 Some gathered around a PA system at the back of the square, surrounding it tightly to protect it from police

 

 

 and then there was music and dancing

 'This World is TOO Young to DIE'

 

 

 

 At the front of the square people were trying to block the road and police dragged one young woman off the road

 and onto the pavement

 but she returned and faced them

 telling them they should be protesting to get action on the climate too. At least one other person was arrested

The protest was continuing but I was getting tired and went home.

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