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| Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest at Bank of England | Extinction Rebellion activists stage protest at Bank of England |
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| Extinction Rebellion activists have blocked a major junction in London’s financial district, as the movement switched its focus towards companies funding and profiting from the climate emergency. | Extinction Rebellion activists have blocked a major junction in London’s financial district, as the movement switched its focus towards companies funding and profiting from the climate emergency. |
| About 100 demonstrators walked into the roundabout outside the Bank of England in the City and sat down in the road at 7am on Monday. | |
| In a statement, the group said: “Extinction Rebellion this morning are disrupting the system bankrolling the environmental crisis. | In a statement, the group said: “Extinction Rebellion this morning are disrupting the system bankrolling the environmental crisis. |
| “The day of disruption, which will target financial institutions, seeks to highlight the far greater disruption faced by those living in the environments systematically being destroyed by UK-backed companies. | |
| “The ecological damage is global, and it is hitting the global south now.” | “The ecological damage is global, and it is hitting the global south now.” |
| Police circulated through the crowds and began making arrests. | |
| Protesters said they were switching their focus to the financial institutions “funding environmental destruction”. | |
| Chay Harwood, 23, from Bristol, said: “We are here in the financial district because we know for a fact that these companies and institutions have a vested interest in deforestation and the decimation of people’s lives and livelihoods, not only in the Amazon but in the global south in general.” | |
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