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ISLAMABAD: A United Kingdom environmental group, Extinction Rebellion, announced that in future it will not block the country’s transport networks and instead plan to carry out a major rally against the government’s policy in April
The network of activists, which was formed in 2018, has every now and then staged protests involving civil disobedience to call out the British government’s inaction on climate change.
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Last year at the end of August, they blockaded the UK capital London. Previous actions including blockading airports, train lines, and roads have resulted in the activists gaining notoriety.
Environment protest group plans major rally in April
In a statement, the protest group said, that at the start of the new year, they are taking a controversial decision at the start of the new year that it would for the time being refrain from public disruption as a tactic of choice.
The group added that the current plan would replace roadblocks and the number of arrests with relationships and the number of those attending. Thus, by standing together their demands would become impossible to ignore.
Further, it said the change in tactics would focus on demanding that politicians end of use of fossil fuel such that “the abuse of power and imbalance” would be disrupted. Previously, its focus was only use “the power of disruption to raise the alarm”.
The group wants 100,000 to gather on April 21 in London to hold a rally to demonstrate outside the UK’s parliament.
The group tweeted their message:
Reacting to the announcement, a Twitter user claimed the Extinction Rebellion was losing public support:
