British police ordered Extinction Rebellion activists to stop their demonstrations immediately or face arrest, issuing a London-wide ban on the group’s climate change protests.
Extinction Rebellion holds their so-called “Autumn Uprising” across major cities across the globe to rebel against the world’s governments for their “criminal inaction” when it comes to the intensifying climate crisis.
The group says it uses non-violent civil disobedience in an attempt to highlight the risks posed by climate change.
More than 1,600 Extinction Rebellion protesters have been arrested as the group promises to continue its civil-disobedience campaign despite a London-wide ban on its demonstrations.
London has become the first city to prohibit the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion from staging protests, in a move condemned by legal observers and campaigners as a massive “overreach.” Lawyers are applying for a judicial review at the High Court on the morning of October 16 to challenge the public order banning more than two climate activists convening anywhere in the city. Politicians, human rights groups and leading environmental figures including Greta Thunberg have condemned the ban as “unlawful” and “draconian”.
Accounts of how peaceful and innocent the protest may be is arguable as extreme matters of commotion have taken place including protestors handcuffing and locking themselves to corporate and government buildings. “Although we are pushing for disruption and civil disobedience, we are still learning how to do this in a way that does not result in violence, and that does not discriminate against hard-working individuals, especially those in communities who stand to be most affected by the climate and ecological crisis and are most vulnerable to systems of power.” said an Extinction Rebellion spokesperson.
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