XR unveil plans to ‘paralyse’ oil refineries in Britain
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EXTINCTION REBELLION unveiled today its plan to “paralyse” movement of oil supplies in Britain.
The group aims to mobilise hundreds of thousands of protesters in an unprecedented blockade of oil refineries which it hopes will “stop the harm at the source.”
The ambitious plan will be put into effect on April 9 with the intention of causing “maximum nonviolent disruption” of fossil fuel industries.
An Extinction Rebellion statement said: “We are calling on protest groups, NGOs and individuals to join us and take a stand to stop fossil fuels once and for all. Now is the time, this is the moment.”
The plan follows last week’s United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which warned of the increasing and irreversible effects of climate change.
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The cost-of-living crisis will be ‘fatal’ for children in poverty, Jack Monroe warns
ACTIVIST and food writer Jack Monroe issued a stark warning today that the cost of living crisis will be “fatal” for children in poverty.
The campaigner, who specialises in low-cost cooking, warned MPs that the impact of the crisis on “millions of children living in poverty in Britain today” is “going to be, in some cases, fatal,” a term that she didn’t “use lightly.”
She told the work and pensions committee that the home situation of children living in poverty was “already untenable” and had been worsening over the last decade.
The 33-year-old said you could only get around two-thirds as much for a £20 weekly food shop now as a few years ago.
“And that’s not people deciding not to go to the theatre or not have legs of lamb or bottles of Champagne, that’s people deciding ‘we won’t eat on Tuesday or Thursday this week’ or ‘we’ll turn the heating off’ or ‘we’ll skip meals’.”
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