Kids’s Blood and Ladies Rise – On Saturday ninth March 2019 Extinction Revolt coated the highway at Downing St with faux blood in a protest calling for a future for kids and ladies marched by means of the West Finish in an annual protest towards male violence.
Blood of Our Kids – XR – Downing St
Two processions converged from each instructions on Whitehall outdoors Downing Avenue, every led by kids carrying posters with the message ‘Our Future, Our Blood’ together with an individual ringing a bell.
The kids have been adopted by folks in single file carrying buckets of pretend blood ready to be arrested to attract consideration to the necessity for pressing motion to keep away from the in any other case inevitable extinction of human life on Earth. They have been adopted by a crowd of different Extinction Revolt supporters.
In entrance of Downing Avenue these carrying buckets shaped a big half circle and when the bells stopped ringing got here ahead in three waves to pour the blood onto the roadway, retuning to take a seat down and await arrest.
Police watched fastidiously however took no motion. There have been a variety of quick speeches from younger folks, together with some very spectacular 10 and 11 year-olds, earlier than I left, in addition to by college students and grandparents, however no arrests.
Extra footage at Blood of Our Kids – XR.
Million Ladies March towards male violence – Oxford St
I left early to hurry to Oxford Avenue for the annual all-women Million Ladies March by a number of thousand girls, women and kids towards male violence and arrived just a little earlier than the march was resulting from begin from a road along side Selfridges.
The theme of the 2019 march was ‘By no means Forgotten’ and it remembered the greater than 100 girls killed by males annually within the UK, primarily by companions or ex-partners.
As in different years there was a powerful illustration by girls from our numerous ethnic communities, involved about male violence each right here and of their nations of origin.
Within the UK 1 in 4 girls expertise home violence sooner or later of their lives and one incident is reported to police each minute.
Many extra footage on My London Diary Million Ladies March towards male violence.
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