Local weather, Pay & Pensions – Friday twenty ninth November 2019 was ‘Black Friday’ for some however for others it was ‘Purchase Nothing Day’ and Local weather Strike college students had been on the march, whereas individually College lecturers and others within the UCU together with college students and different supporters had been marching to Parliament in assist of their 8 day strike over pensions, pay and situations.
Youth Local weather Strike March
Over a thousand primarily faculty college students met in Parliament Sq. to demand the federal government and different governments world-wide take pressing motion to keep away from the worst penalties of local weather change.
They demanded a Inexperienced New Deal to save lots of their future and for the college curriculum to clarify the pressing want for modifications in attitudes and motion.
After all their protest fell on deaf ears within the Tory authorities, and though it did appear for a while that the Labour opposition was starting to assume significantly in regards to the environmental disaster, because it appears extra doubtless they could get into energy their local weather polices for a https://www.labourgnd.uk/gnd-explained Inexperienced New Deal are quickly being deserted and it now appears they’re “unlikely to satisfy its £28bn inexperienced pledge in any respect.”
Effectively over a thousand marched up Whitehall and on by Trafalgar Sq. to Regent Road, aspiring to go to Oxford Road on ‘Purchase Nothing Day’, however police stopped them on Regent Road and diverted them into Mayfair and ultimately again to Whitehall and Parliament Sq..
Earlier that they had been met by a bunch of XR’s ‘Crimson Brigade’ mimes who had come to salute the scholar march.
Many extra photos at Youth Local weather Strike March.
UCU March for Planet, Pay and Pensions
The UCU march from London College was on the 4th day of their 8 day strike over pensions, pay and situations and in solidarity with the Youth Local weather Strike additionally happening in London the identical day.
Some had been on the picket traces for the reason that early morning earlier than the march started in Malet Road.
I noticed the march as I got here again from Regent Road the place I had left the scholar march as I got here on to the North Terrace of Trafalgar Sq., and ran all the way down to meet up with the entrance of the march on Whitehall, near Downing St.
The march stopped there for a while, lining the highway reverse the doorway to Downing St and shouting in the direction of it, earlier than shifting on in the direction of Parliament.
In addition to their name for correct working situations and higher pay most of the marchers additionally got here calling for modifications in what’s taught and with posters and placards about local weather change. Some had already marched to assist the scholars.
They then marched on to Parliament Sq., the place I left them as they moved in the direction of a rally.
Extra photos UCU March for Planet, Pay and Pensions.
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