XR Zombie System Collapse Motion: On Wednesday thirtieth October I returned to Trinity Sq. Backyard to cowl the third day and ultimate day of Extinction Riot’s actions demanding the insurance coverage business finish their assist of recent fossil gas tasks – a part of every week of world-wide motion, together with protests the next two days in different UK cities. I’d missed Day 2 the place that they had marched with a large potato.
XR had posted: “We Predict a Riot – mass motion…..a zombie apocalypse! A variety of inventive actions will spotlight what social collapse will appear like within the UK because the inhabitants begins to panic within the face of repeated floods and meals shortages over the following decade.”
And we had been promised a “Zombie die-in with flashmob, zombie insurers stumbling round” in addition to a “Zombie Mass Dance Discobedience – That is the undead dance for all times! – put on enterprise fits with a zombie twist. We’re the undead, dancing our method by means of the halls of energy to show the profiteers of destruction!”
I arrived to discover a group of round 20 individuals practising the Zombie dance in Trinity Sq., and a large bomb of CO2 with protesters in enterprise fits holding pink containers with the phrases WAR, FAMINE, EXTINCTION and FLOOD and a person studying a particular copy of the ‘Every day Fail’.
Finally the a number of hundred protesters set off on a march heading to Tower Palce, the house of insurers MarshMcLennan, the place there was loud music from the Samba band, a brief speech calling on them to finish the insuring of recent fossil gas tasks, a die-in, a number of zombies runnning round after which the Zombie Mass Dance Discobedience.
Subsequent cease was insurers AIG the place a small group went contained in the constructing to ship a letter, however have been quickly ushered out.
The march continued across the Metropolis, earlier than stopping for a lunch break outdoors the Howden Group places of work on the nook with Bevis Marks.
After lunch the march continued, going again previous Lloyds and on to the Sky Backyard constructing in Fenchurch St, house to house to insurers Ascot, Talbot, Chaucer, Markel, Allied World, CNA Hardy, Tokio Marine Kiln, Sirius Worldwide and Lancashire Syndicates.
Right here a small group had arrived earlier than us to poster the home windows with massive indicators, ‘INSURING FOSSIL FUELS = CLIMATE CHAOS’ and three campaigners have been perched on prime of the principle entrance porch.
I’d been on my ft too lengthy and issues appeared to be at an finish, so I sloped off for a pint of Brains (it was Halloween) within the Crosse Keys earlier than making my method house. You possibly can learn concerning the protest in a press launch from XR, and see extra of my footage right here.
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