YESTERDAY TOPLESS Extinction Rebellion activists were seized by police after padlocking themselves to the gates of Parliament with a banner reading 'Can't Bare the Truth?' today on the final day of climate change protest.
About 30 women gathered in central London wearing just face masks branded with '4C' and trousers, and joined hands as they chained themselves to the black railings surrounding the Palace of Westminster.
The women used D-locks to chain themselves by the neck to the railings at 9.30am on the final day of the XR protests in London.
The Metropolitan Police began shifting the women around mid-day. A spokesperson for the Met said they could not confirm the number of women arrested during the protest.
XR tweeted in response to today's demonstration: The forces of the state mobilise to crush dissent & protect the interests of the powerful, mothers & babies step up to defend the truth. We are in a #ClimateEmergency.
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We face a 4C increase in temperature in the lifetime of this child. 4C = the death of millions. #WeWantToLive'.
XR activist and teacher Sarah Mintram told the Daily Mail: 'Now we've got your attention. By neglecting to communicate the consequences of a 4C world - war, famine, drought, displacement - the Government are failing to protect us.'
Officers removed the D-locks from their necks and took the women to police stations in four separate vans as supporters cheered the protesters on from Parliament Square.
The radical climate action group made headlines at the weekend after it blockaded the Newsprinters printing presses and delayed the distribution of hundreds of thousands of newspapers including the Mail.
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Song writer Cole Porter wrote:
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes"
And that was in the 1930s.
If ER want to shock for publicity, they need to up the ante.
How about bottomless obese men doing the can-can on a huge block of ice? There would be a social media melt-down.
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