“If you can read that list without the hairs on the back of your neck beginning to stand up, then maybe
#journalism
is not for you.” David Randall in The Universal Journalist, 1996.
“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
@JustStop_Oil
’s activists explain their action
🎨 BREAKING: LORA JOHNSON THROWS PAINT ON MET POLICE HQ 🎨
⚖️ New oil and gas will lead to crop failure, food shortages and the collapse of law and order. Human civilisation as we know it is on the verge of collapse.
#FreeLouis
#FreeJosh
#CivilResistance
“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
@JustStop_Oil
’s activists explain their action
“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what to do, other than to do this, to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up.”
Ecologist Dr Aaron Thierry (
@ThierryAaron
), who has his hand superglued to the window at
@beisgovuk
with
@ScientistsX
“It’s not okay!”
This is the moment Rabbi Jeffrey Newman was arrested and carried away for taking action with
#ExtinctionRebellion
outside the Bank of England
Scientists and medics with
@XRebellionUK
are gathering outside Charing Cross police station to demand the release of Emma Smart (
@smartyfish
), a marine biologist who has been held since Wednesday
Equipment confiscated from
#ExtinctionRebellion
included these pink bean bags, which remain under heavy guard from the Met’s territorial support group.
“What’s that smell? Oh, it’s her knickers,” officers at a north-east London police station said to each other after Dr Konstancja Duff was held down on the floor and her clothes cut off. “Is she rank?” another said.
“Those eggs are the only justice they’re ever going to see.”
Man who threw eggs at King Charles in York says he did for “all the victims of of police brutality, all the victims of slavery and colonialism”
"Imagine you are surrounded by an armed gang. They tie your hands and legs together, pin you to the ground, and cut off your clothes with scissors."
Read Konstancja Duff's own account of her experience, on
@novaramedia
Here’s
@LordIanAustin
, the former Labour MP ennobled by the Tories, saying he hopes police “didn’t damage their shields and batons” using them on protesters in Bristol this week.
Prof Colin Davis from University of Bristol is tackled for spray painting an
@extinctsymbol
on
@beisgovuk
. Here he is arrested while explaining his actions to media.
Today we are pleased to confirm that the in the latest Honours announcement, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has been nominated to become a Dame.
The Commissioner joined
@metpoliceuk
in 1983 and was appointed as the UK's most senior police officer in April 2017.
A slightly clearer angle of this incident, sent to me by someone else, that appears to show a police officer with his knee on the neck of a
#KillTheBill
protester in Parliament Square.
“If it takes an arrest to try to find ways of helping to galvanise public opinion then it is certainly worth being arrested.”
Rabbi Jeffrey Newman in the moments before he was arrested and carried away by police for taking action with
#ExtinctionRebellion
.
Police admitted they had no warrant to enter the
#ExtinctionRebellion
building, but claimed the right after arresting people who had been seen to leave it.
“Kill the bill,” chant the protesters, in reference to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill currently going through parliament, which will criminalise a number of forms of protest.
Dr Abi Perrin, 32, a microbiologist from York, explains the posters stuck to
@beisgovuk
.
“This one’s about the number and types of fossil fuels we can extract to expect a liveable future for young people alive now. And it basically says no more new extraction.”
BREAKING: Nine black Labour MPs are writing to Keir Starmer to warn that the delay to the Forde inquiry "risks further doubling down on the impression that the party is not taking anti-black racism seriously."
Bass and drum at
#ExtinctionRebellion
Trafalgar Square right now. I’m told that police have stopped arresting rebels “because they’ve run out of space in the cells”
"This is an existential threat. Young people should be angry and should be demanding change from their leaders."
Filmmaker
@JackHarries
holds a banner over Westminster bride with activists from
#ExtinctionRebellion
“I want our children and all the people of this earth to be able to live their lives, have their hopes and dreams fulfilled, on a living planet.”
London 2012 Olympic gold medalist Etienne Stott on his reasons for joining
#ExtinctionRebellion
#ExtinctionRebellion
said in a statement: “This escalation of pre-emptive tactics by the government and police is a sign that we are being heard and acknowledged as a significant movement.
An activist with
#ExtinctionRebellion
said the building had been a “tech hub” storing much of the audiovisual equipment for the protests, including sound systems and lighting, as well as lots of small gazebos.
@metpoliceuk
stop rebels with "random" MOT and insurance checks.
Then arrest driver for having a gazebo in the van.
This is not what democracy looks like ⚖️
12:30, nr Kennington, London.
RIP my mum,
@marirosetta
, who passed yesterday afternoon. Always anarchist, always feminist, she was defiant to the end. I love you mum. You can dance again at last. ❤️🖤💚
Close to where
@ScientistsX
were taking action,
@Angus_Climate
is on day 31 of his hunger strike calling for
@GregHands
to arrange a climate change briefing for all MPs. He’s lost 18% of his body weight and says he’s feeling weak but in good spirits.
An activist from
#ExtinctionRebellion
said the building had been legitimately rented, but that the landlord had decided to evict them this morning, which is why activists were trying to move equipment today.
#ExtinctionRebellion
said eight activists had been arrested on conspiracy to cause a public nuisance as they tried to remove equipment from the building
“Shell have absolutely no intention of stopping investing in fossil fuels ... and that, for me, is a death sentence for my children.”
Chloe Naldrett, 42, from Bristol, explains why she has her stand glued to the floor outside
@Shell_UKLtd
with
@XRebellionUK
“I want to live in a world of peace and justice, I want to live in a world of human rights and democracy, and I’m prepared to make people feel uncomfortable in the process.”
@jeremycorbyn
speaks at the
#killthebill
#PoliceCrackdownBill
protest.
This is fucking outrageous. The British government co-opted the image of Angela Davis for propaganda targeted at black and Muslim women, reveals investigative reporter
@IanCobain
.
"the far right use gender and sexuality as a way to try to mainstream themselves."
@daliagebrial
on why she and women from the Feminist Antifacist Assembly are marching on the
#StopTommyRobinson
demo against the
#BrexitBetrayalMarch
It may be that the police have overstepped the mark with their use of Section 14 to effectively ban
#ExtinctionRebellion
from the entire city. One expert I spoke to tonight called the new conditions "extraordinary" and "a massive abuse of power".
"Source of threat: state"
The Council of Europe has issued a media freedom alert after the arrests of three journalists covering protests by
@JustStop_Oil
.
BREAKING: Seventy two people arrested at the
#KillTheBill
#PoliceCrackdownBill
protest in London on Saturday have been released with no further action. Four charged with assaulting an emergency worker. Two charged with obstructing a constable.
In 2006/7, the deadliest year for knife murders in 40 years, UK police forces had 21,000 more officers and PCSOs - probably the most they've ever had.
So no, hiring more police is not the answer to violent crime.
Excellent from
@jeremycorbyn
on Cressida Dick linking rising crime and falling police numbers. 'If there are enough police can PM explain why Defence Secretary was offering to send in the military?'
#PMQs