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		</div><p>More than 200 people have been arrested during a second day of climate protests which have caused serious disruption in London.</p>
<p>Extinction Rebellion demonstrations have been taking place at Parliament Square, Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.</p>
<p>The Metropolitan Police said the protests were causing serious disruption to public transport and local businesses, with 55 bus routes closed and 500,000 people affected.</p>
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<p>Motorists faced gridlocked traffic on a number of alternative routes, such as Westminster Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge.</p>
<p>At about 5.45pm, police said 209 people had been arrested in connection with the demonstrations.</p>
<p>Five people were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage following disruption outside commercial premises in Lambeth on Monday and have since been released under investigation.</p>
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<p>The other 204 people were were arrested on Waterloo Bridge on Monday night and throughout Tuesday for Public Order Act offences, obstructing a highway and one for obstructing police.</p>
<p>The Met said it had imposed a 24-hour condition on Waterloo Bridge on Monday evening telling protesters to continue any demonstrations in the Marble Arch area.</p>
<p>The same condition was then imposed in the Oxford Circus area at 4.45pm on Tuesday</p>
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<p>The force said: “We are taking positive action against those who are choosing to ignore this condition and are continuing to demonstrate in other areas across London.</p>
<p>“Officers are out on the ground engaging with protesters and local communities to ensure proportionate policing plans are in place.</p>
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<p>“There is a need to ensure the right balance is struck between allowing the right to peaceful protest, while disruption to communities is kept to a minimum.”</p>
<p>The Met warned that demonstrations are expected to continue “throughout the coming weeks”.</p>
<p>Dozens of protesters were dragged away from Waterloo Bridge by police at around 1pm on Tuesday.</p>
<p>As a large group of officers arrived to remove the campaigners, they were met with chants of? “We are peaceful, what about you?”</p>
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<p>There were loud cheers, the ringing of bells, and the blowing of whistles as people were quickly arrested and taken to police vans.</p>
<p>Campaigners crowded and rallied around a man who was screaming “This is a fascist police state”, as he was confronted by officers.</p>
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<p>Many protesters remained on the bridge, chanting for climate justice and refusing to move.</p>
<p>Extinction Rebellion said it aimed to cause more than £6,000 of damage so activists could be tried by a jury in Crown Court.</p>
<p>The campaign group described those arrested as “brave rebels”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_130363" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-130363" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/F7A52280-F179-49AD-8710-97D409F91995.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-130363" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/F7A52280-F179-49AD-8710-97D409F91995.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-130363" class="wp-caption-text">Demonstrators on Waterloo Bridge</figcaption></figure>
<p>Four activists chained and glued themselves underneath a lorry parked on Waterloo Bridge, where they slept on Monday night.</p>
<p>The campaigners had blankets and sleeping bags, and declared they will stay there as long as possible.</p>
<p>Ben Moss, 42, from Islington, north London, glued himself to the bars of the lorry.</p>
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<p>He said: “We’re in an extreme situation, we have to take action. This is my personal action to the moral issue of the climate crisis and ecological collapse.</p>
<p>“I’m doing this because I want the Government to do something.</p>
<p>“I’ve got a week off work – if more is necessary I can make my excuses. I’m a director of a company, I work at a co-operative, but not everyone can come and do this.”</p>
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<p>A Transport for London spokesman said: “There are demonstrations taking place across London which are causing disruption to some bus services and on the road network.</p>
<p>“The safety of our customers and staff is our number one priority and we’re working closely with the police to manage the impact on London’s transport network.</p>
<p>“We would encourage people to check their journeys before they travel.”</p>
<h2 class="in-article">Who are Extinction Rebellion?</h2>
<p><strong>– What are its methods?</strong></p>
<p>XR uses what is calls “non-violent civil disobedience” as the world has “run out of the luxury of time to react incrementally”.</p>
<p>Examples include blocking busy roads and bridges, spray-painting government buildings and activists chaining and gluing themselves to buildings including the gates of Buckingham Palace.</p>
<p>A colourful catwalk show took over London’s busy Oxford Circus junction earlier this month to highlight the environmental impact of the fashion industry.</p>
<p>Before that, semi-naked activists glued themselves to windows in the public gallery of the House of Commons during a Brexit debate.</p>
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<p>On Monday, protesters vandalised Shell’s headquarters, gluing themselves to windows and smashing glass revolving doors in a bid to cause more than £6,000 of damage – to enable them to have a jury trial in Crown Court.</p>
<p>A day later, around two dozen protesters occupied the International Criminal Court in the Hague, in the Netherlands, in a bid to have ecocide recognised as an international crime, the group said.</p>
<p>XR says it wants ecocide, the deliberate destruction of the natural environment, to be listed alongside crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and crimes of aggression.</p>
<p><strong>– How did it build momentum?</strong></p>
<p>In its first protest on October 31 last year, the group assembled a protest on Parliament Square in London, expecting a “couple of hundred people” – before 1,500 showed up.</p>
<p>The group said: “The energy was contagious! The next few weeks were a whirlwind.</p>
<p>“Six thousand of us converged on London to peacefully block five major bridges across the Thames.”</p>
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<p>Chapters now exist in dozens of countries including the US, the Solomon Islands, Australia, Spain, South Africa and India, it said.</p>
<p>On April 15 protests in London began, with campaigners saying they will bring the capital to a standstill for up to two weeks.</p>
<p>Activists in at least 80 cities in more than 33 countries will hold similar demonstrations on environmental issues, campaigners said.</p>
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