Kristian Buus

A bilboard by Led by Donkeys with the salery figuesMP Nigel Farage has earned on second jobs in the first month as an MP elected by Clacton on Sea. The bilboard is on display in Clacton on Sea, Farage's constituency.

Vigil held by Health Workers for Palestine in Whitehall in memory of all the innocent people killed and maimed in Gaza by Israeli troops on the 6th of September 2024, Central London, United Kingdom.

Greenpeace UK activists shut down Unilever’s HQ in Central London following the firm’s ongoing failure to tackle their overwhelming plastic pollution and its recent sustainability rollback on the 5th of September 2024, London, United Kingdom. Unilever owns Dove and Dove is responsible for massive amounts of plastic waste, selling beauty products in single use non-recyclable sachets. Plastic use and waste is a huge global problem and Unilever/Dove are not doing their bit to end plastic waste so Greenpeace has subverted their logo Real Beauty to Real Harm. Activists are blockading the entrances to Unilever House, locking themselves onto barricades made of giant Dove products and a subverted ‘Dead Dove’ version of their logo. Climbers secured a huge 13 x 8 metre canvas to the front of the building. The artwork displays a powerful advertising subversion featuring a young girl peeling back Dove’s iconic ‘Real Beauty’ branding to reveal real examples of the toxic plastic waste churned out by the brand. All climbers and locked-on activists were arrested, some of whom had to be cut free by a specialist team.

Thousands turned out at the Stand Up To Racism march to oppose the Tommy Robinson right wing march and rally on the 27th of July 2024, London, United Kingdom. The Stand Up To Racism march and rally was supported by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and 11 other trade unions, as well as groups such as Stop the War Coalition, Peace & Justice Project and Unite Against Fascism. The marchers called for hope not hate and to oppose Tommy Robinson, racism and fascism. At the same time thousands of right-wing protestors and followers of Tommy Robinson marched and rallied in Trafalgar Square. Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, is a British anti-Islam campaigner a convicted criminal and one of the UK’s most prominent far-right activists.

Tens of thousands took to the streets in the National March for Palestine on the 3rd of August 2024, London, United Kingdom. The march was a call to tell the newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer to stop arming Israel, to put pressure on Israel to make them stop their onslaught on Gaza and to call for a lasting ceasefire. It is almost ten months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1200 people and taking 240 people hostages and since then Israel has killed almost 40.000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. Israel has also taken thousands of Palestinians into custody, most without trial or charges and held indefinitely under highly critical conditions.

Pro-Palestine protest outside Hackney Town Hall demanding the council divest from companies involved in Israel and to end twinning with Haifa in Israel on the 9th of July 2024, London, United Kingdom. The peaceful protest coincided with a Hackney Council pensions committee meeting discussing their demands and the protest was part of a 2 months ongoing encampment outside the town hall campaigning for the council to divest and to end twinning with Haifa. The protest was met by a small number pro-Israeli counter protestors and police. The Hackney council Pension Committee ended up turning down all demands.

London, United Kingdom. 6th July 2024. Tens of thousands took to the streets asking the new UK government to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to stop arming Israel.

Phoebe Plummer, a Just Stop Oil activist, delivered a letter with fellow activist Rosa Hicks, which included "a request that Thornberry commits to leaving the Labour Party if, within six months after forming a government, Labour fails to revoke all Tory oil licenses granted since 2022". Phoebe Plummer was subsequently arrested for breaching bail conditions preventing her from approaching an MP’s residence.

Greenpeace target Unilever/Dove HQ in London as part of their plastic campaign. reenpeace want Unilever to drastically cut down on the plastic they use in their products, much of which is non-recyclable.

On the first day of the hearing at The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has been asked by South Africa to consider whether Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, an ad-van drives around Westminster with the definition of Genocide on the 11th of January 2024 in Central London, United Kingdom. The definition is from Oxford Languages and it states that genocide means "The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”. The campaign is by UK Palestine Affairs Network (UKPAN), a campaigning body made up of Palestinian lawyers, academics and business leaders.

Hundreds of thousands marched in London demanding a ceasefire on the 3rd of February 2024, London , United Kingdom. The march went down Regent’s Street to a rally in Whitehall next to Downing Street. More than 25,000 people have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since Oct 7th 2023 as retaliation after Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,000 people and took 240 hostages. Israel is relentless in its bombing and siege of Gaza in spite of the International Court of Justice has made an interim ruling warning Israel not to commit genocide.

Global Health Workers For Palestine hold a vigil in Whitehall opposite Downing Street 10 remembering the health workers killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment. One minute silence was held to commemorate the killed. A number of speakers spoke and the names of dead health workers were held high.

Hundreds of climate activists blockade the Energy Intelligence Forum on the 17th of October 2023, Central London, United Kingdom.

Just Stop Oil activists target the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez on the 6th of November 2023, Central London, United Kingdom. The activists broke the safety glass covering the painting using safety hammers, in the knowledge that the painting itself would be undamaged, and using emergency hammers as the World is in a climate emergency. The activists are calling for the UK government to end all new oil and gas licenses and to take drastic climate change action to avoid a future climate break down. In spite of all climate science the UK government has recently licensed more than 100 new oil and gas fields. The painting was in the past badly damaged in 1914 by Canadian suffragette Mary Richardson but was restored and put back on display.

Teachers march and rally in Central London on the 5th of July 2023, London, United Kingdom. On the first day of two strike days in July, thousands of teachers and supporters took to the streets of Central London and marched to Parliament Square. The march and rally is part of an England wide strike called by the National Education Union (NEU) and is part of an ongoing pay dispute between the government and teachers.

Just Stop Oil climate activists slow walk in the road on the 24th of May 2023, London, United Kingdom. Chris Packham, English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author were at the protest in support. The group of activists walked slowly down The Strand in Central London causing long tailbacks. Police eventually issued Public Order Act (Section 12) notices and the protest ended without any arrests. Just Stop Oil supporters have been marching every day since the 24th of April, often causing major disruption to commuting Londoners, to highlight the urgent need for climate action by the government. The Just Stop Oil is a coalition of climate activists who wants the UK government to end all new oil explorations.

Just Stop Oil climate activists slow walk in the road on the 24th of May 2023, London, United Kingdom. The group of activists walked slowly down Marylebone Road, a major traffic artery, causing long tailbacks. The police eventually issued Public Order Act (Section 12) notices and arrested 6 of the marchers for not leaving the road fast enough. All 6 were later released without charge. Just Stop Oil supporters have been marching every day since the 24th of April, often causing major disruption to commuting Londoners, to highlight the urgent need for climate action by the government. The Just Stop Oil is a coalition of climate activists who wants the UK government to end all new oil explorations.

Just Stop Oil activists slow walk in Central London supported by Dale Vince and George Monbiot on the 8th of June 2023, London, United Kingdom. Dale Vince is a British green energy industrialist and outspoken supporter of Just Stop Oil and their demands. George Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism and Just Stop Oil supporter. The slow march began in Parliament Square and ended in Trafalgar Square creating traffic jam as the marchers slowly walked down Whitehall. The march ended when police imposed a section 12 notice and most marchers left the road. Five marchers were arrested for not leaving the road. Just Stop Oil has slow walked around London 6 out of 7 days / week since April, demanding the UK government stopping all new oil and coal licensing.

Just Stop Oil activists disrupt the opening of the 2. Ashes test match between England and Australia at the Lord's cricket stadium, London, United Kingdom. Two activists ran onto the pitch and threw orange powder while a third was stopped by security at the perimeter. All three were subsequently arrested. Just Stop Oil want to draw attention to the desperate need for climate change action and for the UK government to end all new oil and gas extractions. Currently more than a hundred new licenses have been issued to explore and extract oil and gas which will make it impossible for the UK to meet its climate targets.

Warning: Nudity. The World Naked Bike Ride took place with thousands riding more or less naked through Central London. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists and is a protest against car culture. WNBR is a worldwide campaign with a number of linked themes. Its objectives are to: protest against the global dependency on oil, curb car culture, obtain real rights for cyclists, demonstrate the vulnerability of cyclists on city streets and to celebrate body freedom.

Just Stop Oil activists slow walk in Central London on the 3rd of May 2023, London, United Kingdom. In spite of the newly passed Public Order bill which grants the police wide ranging powers to curb protest and civil disobedience the Just Stop Oil activists went ahead with their slow walk demanding the government to stop all new oil licencing. The police swiftly announced a section 12 was in place and forced the protest off the road. No arrest were made this time.

Anti-monarchy protest against the coronation of King Charles on the 6th of May 2023 in Central London, United Kingdom. Royalists photograph the marching republicans. Hundreds of protesters, many from the group Republic, gathered by the perimeter fence to the coronation route in Trafalgar Square before marching through the city. It was a loud but jolly crowd shouting “not my king” and singing songs demanding democracy and “down with the monarchy and up the republic”. The police followed the march closely but let it pass.

Junior doctors begin a four day strike outside the Royal London Hospital on the 11th of April 2023 in London, United Kingdom. As part of an ongoing pay dispute junior doctors are on a four day strike which includes picket lines at hospitals. The British Medical Association wants a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. It says the increase would make up for 15 years of below-inflation wage rises which has caused a recruitment and retention crisis.

Tens of thousands of teachers and other public sector workers strike and march on the 1st of February 2023 in Central London, United Kingdom. The march called by National Education Union started in Portland Place and ended in Whitehall with a rally and speeches. The demand is more pay and better working conditions. Teachers from UCU and public sector workers from RMT, PCS, Asleff, also on strike across The United Kingdom, joined the rally in Whitehall outside Downing Street. The day of strikes was the latest in a series of strikes in the public sector and the biggest in more than ten years.

Thousands took to the streets in London during COP 27 to call for immediate and drastic climate actions on a day of global action on the 12th of November 2022 in Central London, United Kingdom. The march was called by the Campaign against climate change and coincided with the COP 27 summit in Egypt. The march ended up in Trafalgar Square where many paused and stood in silence as they listened to speeches and contemplated the past, present and future.

Greenpeace activists from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia blockade a trans-shipment of Russian oil at sea in northern Denmark, 10 km off the Danish coast. Swimmers and activists in kayaks and inflatable speed boats placed themselves in between two tankers to block them from transferring 100 000 tonnes of Russian oil, from the tanker Seaoath to the huge 330m crude oil tanker Pertamina Prime. Greenpeace calls for global divestment and phase out of fossil fuels and an embargo of Russian fossil fuels to stop the funding of the war.

The Really Annoying Demo was held on the night of the third vote on the ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’ in the House of Lords. Home Secretary Priti Patel and the UK Government had proposed an extensive ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’ which would bring in new laws to curb peaceful protests and civil disobedience. The proposed new laws would bring in new powers for the police to arrest people for expressing dissent and new sentencing powers which could send peaceful protesters to prison for years. The House of Lords rejected many of the added amendments and most extreme parts of the proposed law and the bill was voted down a third time January 17 after huge debate and mass protesting across Britain. The bill was seeking to ban any annoying noise and the speakers and protesters made as much noise as possible, an act that could bring on a fine or prison sentence in the future if the bill had made it through.

Home Secretary Priti Patel and the UK Government had proposed an extensive ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’ which would bring in new laws to curb peaceful protests and civil disobedience. The proposed new laws would bring in new powers for the police to arrest people for expressing dissent and new sentencing powers which could send peaceful protesters to prison for years. The House of Lords rejected many of the added amendments and most extreme parts of the proposed law and the bill was voted down a third time January 17 after huge debate and mass protesting across Britain.

Writers Rebel - Painting trhe Landscape. Art work by Ackroyd & Harvey made in grass with words by Ben Okri is set to float on the rising tide on the Thames on the 25th of June 2021, Central London, United Kingdom. The message is a call for action to save the planet from climate change catastrophe. The art work was moved by activists and laid onto a raft on the Thames as the tide was rising. The event marks the launch of XR Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land project, which teams acclaimed writers and artists to create landscape graffitos drawing attention to the climate and ecological emergency. The Speakers at the event included the artist Ackroyd & Harvey, writer Ben Okri, Kelly Hill and Simon Bramwell, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion. The event finished with a song by Damon Albarn and Mirabella Okra and the Capital Choir.

Klimastrejke i Århus, Danmark.

School Strike for the Climate - students all over Britain went on strike Friday Feb 15th 2019 to demand climate action. The strike is inspired by the Swedish student Greta Thunberg who went on strike outside the Swedish Parliament. " Why go to school when adults dont seem to care about climate change and the future?", she says.

The Stansted 15 are sentenced at Chelmsford Crown court, 6th of February 2019, Chelmsford, United Kingdom. The defendants and supporters gather outside the court. The group of fifteen activists stopped a Home Office deportation charter flight in Stansted in 2017. The activists were charged under the terrorism law and 12 were sentenced community service and 3 were sentenced suspended 9 months prison sentences

The National Climate Crisis rally, Oct 20th 2018, held in Lancashire was held at the back of a dramatic week in the world of fracking and climate change. The previous Monday the IPCC had released a report stating that we have 12 years to change our way of living to save the planet. Wednesday the three PNR truck surfers jailed for peaceful protest against fracking were freed by a high court judge. Friday several seismic tremors occurred after the fracking company Cuadrilla started explorative gas extraction and on the Saturday a thousand plus gathered in Maple Farm, Preston New Road to rally against fracking. The rally marched to the gates of Cuadrilla's fracking site, a highly contentious spot on the map of fracking and held a peaceful and energized rally.

First day of the trial of the Stansted 15 in Chelmsford crown court. The defendants were met by friends, family and supporters including speakers like Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party outside the court. The 15 defendants are charged under the terrorism legislation for stopping a deportation flight in Standsted airport 2017. The flight was due to deport people to Nigeria and Ghana and the action prevented the plane from taking off. Several of the deportees are still in the UK.

On the day of the debate in Parliament to challenge the Government's proposal to by-pass local decision-making for shale gas developement up to a hundred women from Lancashire congregated in Parliament Square. The women of Lancashire have been fighting against fracking for years and today they took their message and struggle to the capital. They met by the statue of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett , a suffragist who faught for women's rights to vote. The women came dressed as suffragists and after speaches went to the Dept for Energy, Business and Industrial Stategy to shout their message of NO Fracking to the employees inside.

Block Around the Clock - fourty eight hours of party, work shops, yoga, sleeping and anti-fracking campaigning in front of the gates to Cuadrilla's fracking site in New Preston Road, Lancashire. The Cuadrilla site in Lancashire in a highly contested site, almost ready to extract gas. Block Around the Clock is part of a nationwide campaign to prevent fracking in Lancashire and across the England ( fracking is either banned or put on hold in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.)

Protect Pont Valley 2018. Locals have fought the open cast coal mine for thirty years and three times the local council rejected planning permissions but central government has overuled that decission. Banks Group bought the license and rights to extract coal and declared in early 2018 they were to commence extracting coal in accordance with the liicence by June 4th 2018. Locals have teamed up with climate campaigners and together they try to pevent the mining from going ahead. A rare species of crested newt live on the land planned for mining and protectors are trying to stop the mine to save the newt, the valley and their communities from pollution. Commercial coal exploitation and burning of fossil fuels is hugely contributing to climate change and campaigners want to keep the coal in the hole.

The protect Pont Valley campaign was started by locals to prevent the mining company BANKS starting extracting coal from a proposed open cast coal mine. BANKS has got license to start digging at the latest by June 4th 2018. Day of protest in Pont Valley, 5 May 2018 against the extraction of coal by the mining company Banks outside Dipton in Pont Valley, County Durham. Locals have fought the open cast coal mine for thirty years and three times the local council rejected planning permissions but central government has overruled that decision and the company Banks was granted the license and rights to extract coal in early 2018. Locals have teamed up with climate campaigners and together they try to prevent the mining from going ahead. The mining will have huge implications on the local environment and further coal extraction runs agains the Paris climate agreement. A rare species of crested newt live on the land planned for mining and protectors are trying to stop the mine to save the newt.

Greenpeace volunteers in kayaks, speed boats and climbers on the jetty prevent the 23,498-tonne cargo ship Elbe Highway from docking at Sheerness in the Thames Estuary. The cargo ship is bringing Volkswagen diesel cars into the UK and the Greenpeace action is to prevent this from happening and to make VW ditch diesel. Two climbers board the ship and hang a banner on the roll-on roll-off part of the ship preventing any cars from being off-loaded.

Reclaim the Power activists block access to Tarmac Leapers Wood quarry in Lancashire. It is the first day of two weeks of actions targeting the supply chain to the fracking industry, called Break the Chain.

Nine bridges - nine banners in defiance of Donald Trump's inauguration. On Friday 20th January over 50 groups across the United Kingdom dropped banners from bridges as an act of defiance against Trump’s inauguration. The groups, who form the ‘Bridges not Walls’ movement, staged their demonstration to show support for people in the USA and beyond fearing the consequences of Trump’s election. In London ten iconic bridges on the Thames saw huge banners (25m long) unfurled on them.

The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016.

Frack&Go is a fake fracking company set up by Greenpeace. One early morning the company arrived at Parliament Square and set up a fake fracking rig and started 'drilling for gas' and the authorities let the Greenpeace drilling action continue through-out the day in spite of not having a permit. Fracking is a highly contentious way of gas exploration and the British central government is keen on extending the practice through-out the country in spite of local opposition against this highly polluting method of extracting even more carbon out of the ground. The Frack&Go intervention by Greenpeace was a way to take the discussion back to Parliament by 'fracking' in their own 'front yard'.

The Plane Stupid Heathrow 13 activists staged a peaceful protest at Heathrow Airport in June 2015. The protest was against a proposed expansion of Heathrow Airport and aviation in general which the 13 activists see as a direct contribution to climate change. They were all subsequently arrested and charged with aggravated trespass and being beside an airdrome without permission and when found guilty at Willesden Magistrate's Court in January and at the time the judge threatened they would face prison when sentenced. On Feb 24th all 13 walked out of court with a 6 weeks prison sentence suspended for 12 months and a total of 1740 hours of community service as punishment.

The Free Education Now student demonstration saw ten thousand students from all over the country take to the streets of Central London. The demonstration was called by the National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts which is demanding an end to budget cuts and to restore free education. The demonstration was largely peaceful with a rally outside Parliament attended by several MPs and students leaders from around the country calling for an end to fees. A few scuffles broke out between police and a small number of protesters resulting in four arrests.

The Reclaim the Power camp was set up down the road from the Balcombe Frack Free camp in solidarity with the movement. The camp was build during the first few days and included facilities for 500-1000 climate campers. Tents,toilets,kitchen, water supplies and electricity was build under the watchful eyes of the police.

The march in solidarity with the Frack Free Sussex movement in Balcombe saw several thousands turn out. Frack Free movements from all over the country came to Balcombe and the march was a mix of local activists, the Reclaim the Power camp and No Dash for Gas, the Force from the North and other anti frack movements. The march went on peacefully as part of a long running battle in Balcombe against fracking and the fracking company Cuadrilla.

The UK Uncut held a street party outside the house of Dep PM Nick Clegg in Putney Saturday May 26. The venue of the party was not disclosed till the very last minute and revelers - and police - followed the colored umbrellas to find their way. After some initial scuffles between police and activists the party goers got settled ind and had their party in peace. The UK Uncut is an activist network set up as a response to the to the UK Government's bail-out of banks and austerity policies.

8 pig headed party goers,from the Swillindon club, tried to join the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London. The banquet is an annual event with guests representing the rich and powerful in London, including the Prime Minister. The police rejected their invitations and eventually the pigs went to join the Occupy LSX at St Paul's Cathedral, representing the 99%.

The Health and Care Bill has been passed by the British Parliament and is due to go to the House of Lords. In protest against the bill which aim to deconstruct and privatise large parts of the NHS UK Uncut activists together with health workers and trade unionists blocked the Westminster Bridge from 1pm til 5.30pm.