Climate activists to ‘disrupt business as usual’ in DC, London
Al JazeeraUS environmental advocates aim for maximum visibility, as UK counterparts also escalate protest actions in London. Environmental groups, including Extinction Rebellion, said on Wednesday that they will shut down traffic in Washington, DC, on September 23 and bring daily life to a standstill to demand that political leaders tackle climate change. ‘Very serious’ Meanwhile, Heathrow Pause, a splinter group of Extinction Rebellion in the UK, plans to disrupt London’s Heathrow airport on Friday by flying drones within a restricted zone at no higher than head level and with one hour’s notice given to airport authorities. “I’m very confident that we’ve taken the learning from Gatwick,” said London police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor. We will enforce the law and we will use legislation available to us … to prevent that from happening.” Thousands of supporters of the Extinction Rebellion climate activist group occupied four sites in London in April and stopped trains in one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns there in decades.
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