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International Desk: London police dragged away several chanting and singing climate protesters on Thursday who tried to \u201coccupy\u201d an international airport serving the British capital\u2019s global financial hub.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: London police dragged away several chanting and singing climate protesters on Thursday who tried to \u201coccupy\u201d an international airport serving the British capital\u2019s global financial hub.<\/p>\n
Uniformed officers were seen dragging several Extinction Rebellion group demonstrators from outside London City Airport, although there was no immediate official tally of arrests.<\/p>\n
Campaigners, some of them in business suits, also staged a sit-in on the platform of the nearby overground train station.<\/p>\n
Others unfurled the group\u2019s trademark pink banner showing an hour glass \u2014 a symbol of time running out to save the planet from a \u201cclimate emergency\u201d.<\/p>\n
The year-old group backed by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg is spearheading a two-week global action that kicked off Monday with partial shutdowns of traffic in cities stretching from Sydney to New York.<\/p>\n
In Berlin, protesters blocked a bridge overlooking the Reichstag building.<\/p>\n
In London, airport officials said it has managed to remain \u201cfully open and operational\u201d by limiting entrance to the main terminal to ticketed passengers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to work closely with the Metropolitan Police to ensure the safe operation of the airport,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
London police reported making 800 arrests in the first three days of protests that included campaigners glueing themselves to the pavement and chaining themselves to cars.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Extermination of life\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
Extinction Rebellion had announced it was planning a \u201cHong Kong-style\u201d occupation of London City Airport because of the small hub\u2019s ongoing expansion plans.<\/p>\n
It lies some three miles (five kilometres) east of the Canary Wharf business district \u2014 one of Britain\u2019s main financial centres \u2014 and the nearby bustling City of London.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in the streets to make our governments #ActNow and end their complicity in the extermination of life,\u201d Extinction Rebellion tweeted as its members were hauled away.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s colourful but peaceful protests have managed to attract a mass following since its creation by a group of UK academics studying the effects of harmful carbon emissions on Earth.<\/p>\n
Its past big event in London in April managed to shut down central parts of city for 11 days and led to more than 1,000 arrests.<\/p>\n
Police are now being more assertive.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police on Thursday enacted a rarely-used measure in the 1986 Public Order Act aimed at preventing \u201cserious disruptions to the live of the community\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny assembly linked to the Extinction Rebellion \u2018Autumn Uprising\u2019 and those linked to it who wish to continue their assembly MUST go Trafalgar Square and only assemble in the pedestrian area,\u201d the police statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShould you fail to comply with the conditions you run the risk of being arrested and prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Extinction Rebellion has vowed to continue targeting the airport until Saturday evening \u2014 and to only wind down their global action at the end of next week.<\/p>\n
The group wants governments to adopt policies that cut harmful emissions to a net level of zero by 2025.<\/p>\n
Britain has set itself the target of 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: London police dragged away several chanting and singing climate protesters on Thursday who tried to \u201coccupy\u201d an international airport serving the British capital\u2019s global financial hub. Uniformed officers were seen dragging several Extinction Rebellion group demonstrators from outside London City Airport, although there was no immediate official tally of arrests. Campaigners, some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":54961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n