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On Monday, more than 100 people took over part of the famous Natural History Museum as the mammoth climate change protest reaches its second week. It happened after a total of 1,065 people were arrested in the ongoing rebellion which started in central London almost a week ago.
The protesters – mostly dressed in white face paint coupled with red veils and red robes – collected underneath the ironic blue whale skeleton of the museum and stayed there to listen to some absorbing classical music performances.
16-year-old climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, was greeted with chants of "we love you!" as she rose to speak on the stage in front of thousands at the Extinction Rebellion rally in Marble Arch.
“I come from Sweden and back there its almost the same problem as here, as everywhere, that nothing is being done to stop an ecological crisis despite all the beautiful words and promises,” she told the crowd.
Extinction Rebellion aims at a non-violent civil disobedience movement to get UK’s lawmakers to pay some serious attention to the global climate breakdown.
The team started the protest on 15 April, by stopping the traffic at Oxford Circus of Marble Arch, Waterloo Bridge and then, by gathering near the area around the very busy Parliament Square.
Roger Hallam, a founding member of the Extinction Rebellion movement, on Monday said that this event had been the biggest civil disobedience event in the recent history of Britain. He also said that the number of protesters getting arrested surpassed that of the anti-nuclear protests at Upper Heyford in 1982 (752) and at the poll tax riots in 1990 (339).
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