A UK-based climate group has launched a "rebellion" march in London on Monday, blocking traffic across the capital and urging people from all over the world to join non-violent civil disobedience in a bid to demand that the governments address what they describe as ecological emergency
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th April, 2019) A UK-based climate group has launched a "rebellion" march in London on Monday, blocking traffic across the capital and urging people from all over the world to join non-violent civil disobedience in a bid to demand that the governments address what they describe as ecological emergency."Climate breakdown and ecological collapse threaten our existence. Another world is possible, and it's just within reach. It's going to take everything we've got to get there. So we're pulling out all the stops and rising up in a full-scale Rebellion against this twisted system to save ourselves and the natural world from extinction," climate action group Extinction Rebellion said in a statement, posted on its official website.
The group stresses that the campaign is not a one-day march and plans to go ahead round the clock with its acts of disobedience for two weeks.
The movement aims to block five iconic locations across London, with main targets Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus, Marble Arch, Parliament Square, Piccadilly Circus already taken over by protesters, according to the group's Twitter.
Meanwhile, the Sky News broadcaster reported that the protests had turned violent, with a Shell Oil Company building in the borough of Lambeth, southeast London, vandalized with graffiti and the glass of one of its doors smashed. One woman and three men were reportedly arrested in connection with the incident.
In an official statement, the climate group demands that the government "tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency" and work to reach net zero gas emissions by 2025, as well as set up a "Citizens' Assembly on climate and ecological justice."
