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		</div><p>Climate change protesters at four key sites in London remain out in force over the Easter weekend as the number of arrests tipped 700.</p>
<p>Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrators will observe a candlelit vigil on Saturday evening followed by an Easter Sunday feast the following day.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happening today from 10am at our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarbleArch?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MarbleArch</a> site for those of you in London &#8211; Rebel 101: How to join the movement. We&#39;ll look at the science behind <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExtinctionRebellion?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExtinctionRebellion</a> &; what action we can take to mobilise change <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalRebellion?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternationalRebellion</a> <a href="https://t.co/AknHMZwc3r">https://t.co/AknHMZwc3r</a> <a href="https://t.co/SkTZCnbTev">pic.twitter.com/SkTZCnbTev</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) <a href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR/status/1119527953564622848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Greta Thunberg, the teenage founder of the school strikes against climate change is expected to address the protesters on Easter Sunday.</p>
<p>The 16-year-old Swedish activist is due to meet senior British politicians next week having already met with Pope Francis and addressed the EU Parliament.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now awaits two days of train travel. Next stop London! <a href="https://t.co/bzyx2EPdMK">pic.twitter.com/bzyx2EPdMK</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1119513926029459456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Activists who have set up a garden on Waterloo Bridge showed no signs of shifting under the hot sun, watched on by tourists and families enjoying the end of the school holiday.</p>
<p>Sites at Oxford Circus, Marble Arch and Parliament Square are also occupied, despite the removal by police of the pink boat which had acted as a natural focal point for the movement.</p>
<p>Police say more than 715 people have now been arrested, six days in to the XR protests, and 28 people have been charged.</p>
<p>Members of the group said they were aware that some arrested demonstrators had been taken outside of London due to a lack of custody space.</p>
<p>One demonstrator said she had been told that some people had been taken to Brighton and Southampton.</p>
<p>With the pink boat no longer at Oxford Circus, supporters have sat down in a circle at the centre of the junction.</p>
<p>The vessel has been replaced by two demonstrators holding a sign “We are the boat” after it was removed by police on Friday after five days.</p>
<p>Earlier on Saturday, about 50 police officers surrounded the group who said they had been told they could remain until “no later than 10.30am”.</p>
<p>One demonstrator said: “Holding the space is important and being arrested is not undignified.</p>
<p>“We are here for an important reason, so we should be prepared to be removed for that. Being arrested is a statement.”</p>
<p>Another demonstrator countered: “Dignified withdrawal is an option.”</p>
<p>However, within minutes police numbers had dwindled, and demonstrators continued to occupy the road.</p>
<p>It comes as a video of police officers dragging demonstrators along the ground by the arms on Friday emerged, after Home Secretary Sajid Javid urged police to use the “full force of the law”.</p>
<p>In the footage, a woman is seen being dragged along the road close to Oxford Circus by a police officer who then stumbles and falls over, knocking his hat off.</p>
<p>Another officer is seen dragging a man sideways.</p>
<p>It is one of the more aggressive encounters between police and demonstrators, which have so far remained largely good natured and peaceful.</p>
<p>XR tweeted that the movement was “peaceful and non violent”, adding: “We face a climate and ecological emergency. Now is not the time to be on the wrong side of history”.</p>
<p>The group has pledged to continue causing disruption until its demands are met.</p>
<p>It wants the Government to declare a climate emergency and take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.</p>
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