BEIS Birthday Strike, Ecocide and XR Procession: Monday fifteenth July 2019
BEIS employees start indefinite strike, Westminster
Low paid cleansing and catering employees on the Division for Enterprise, Vitality and Industrial Technique (BEIS) on Victoria Road celebrated the third anniversary of their struggle for correct pay and situations with desserts as they walked out on the primary ever indefinite strike at a authorities ministry.
The employees are demanding the London Dwelling Wage and to be straight employed by the division fairly than outsourcing firms ISS and Aramark.
As the employees got here out on strike hey bought a rousing reception from a crowd of round 100 with speeches from one of many strikers, PCS normal secretary Mark Serwotka, RMT Common Secretary Mick Money, newly elected UCU normal secretary Jo Grady , Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Labour MP Mary Glindon, Nationwide Vice-President of the PCS Zita Holbourne, Sam Gurney, TUC Regional Secretary, Kiri Tunks, Joint President of the NEU and Sandy Nicoll of SOAS Unison who led the succesful marketing campaign to convey employees there again in-house. and one of many strikers.
I stayed lengthy sufficient to eat a bit of one of many desserts which had been made for the protest, however then needed to depart because the social gathering continuned exterior BEIS.
Extra photos at BEIS employees start indefinite strike.
XR name for Ecocide Regulation – Royal Courts of Justice, Strand
Extinction Revolt was starting one other sequence of protests in 5 main cities in opposition to the felony inaction by the federal government on local weather and ecological collapse.
The primary theme of the day’s protest was to name for a legislation making ecocide a felony offence.
The protesters introduced a yacht named after Polly Higgins who fought for years for an Ecocide Regulation to the Royal Courts of Justice.
They continued her struggle blocking the Strand all day with performances, discussions, speeches, music and ceremonies in entrance of the yacht.
We’d like pressing motion and our authorities together with most others has failed, persevering with with insurance policies which appear designed to make the scenario worse and produce life on earth to an finish, and XR is actually bringing that to individuals’s consideration, even when our media are nonetheless largely ignoring it and concentrating on trivia. However though I absolutely help the goals of XR I do discover a few of XR’s actions – yachts and new-age mumbo jumbo – off placing. Partly I suppose it’s a category factor – a lot of their exercise appears insufferably center class. Its most likely an age factor too.
XR name for Ecocide Regulation
XR Summer time Rebellion procession
Having occupied the road throughout the entrance of the Royal Courts of Justice all day, the protesters and their yacht moved on round afternoon tea time to their house for the following three days, on Waterloo Millennium Inexperienced, a park space simply south of Waterloo Station.
On the entrance of the procession had been banners and a big crowd of individuals with XR flags, extra banners, posters and placards, as nicely a big pink dodo. Mentioning the rear was the blue yacht named for the late Ecocide Regulation protester Polly Higgins, on a ship trailer, escorted by police.
When the procession was all on Westminster Bridge it got here to a halt and folks sat down blocking the highway for a brief protest in opposition to the police violence in direction of peaceable protesters once they had been arresting individuals through the ‘Backyard Bridge‘ occupation of the bridge in April.
There have been just a few quick speeches there and the procession moved on. It got here to a halt a bit additional on after police tried to dam it on from transferring onto the Millennium Inexperienced.
By this time the again of the procession was on its approach across the IMAX Waterloo roundabout, and the frenzy hour was starting. I hung round for round half an hour earlier than deciding it was time to get on a practice house. However by stopping the protest police had introduced a big space of south London fairly unnecessarily to a standstill.
Many extra photos at XR Summer time Rebellion procession.
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