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  • Just Stop Oil climate activists protest leads to mass arrests on the 19th of July 2023, London, United Kingdom. A large number of Just Stop Oil activists took to the street in Parliament Square to highlight their demand that the UK government stop all new oil and gas licensing. Some of the activists refused to leave the road when police issued a section 12 which led to the arrests of more than 15 activists.
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  • England's Jonny Bairstow carry a protester off the pitch. 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. <br />
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Lena Slade from UCAN hands out blankets at arrivales. British Red Cross organise with the charity UCAN the reception of British nationals evacuated from Sudan. Many of the evacuees arrive in Stansted Airport in the UK without money and just a small suit case. All have been through traumatic experiences during the past two week of fighting in Sudan and are in need of help. The Red Cross help facilitate hot drinks and food, warm blankets and jumpers, soft toys for kid, cash, travel advice and accommodation for anyone in need.
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  • Nurses on strike march through Central London on the 18th of January 2023, London, United Kingdom. The march was part of a 12 hour strike at the University College Hospital London by nurses from the Royal College of Nursing union and part of a strike across England. The nurses demands better pay and working conditions. The march started at University College Hospital and ended outside Downing Street in Whitehall.
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  • Unison ambulance workers picket line outside the London Ambulance Service  headquarters in London on January 11th 2023, London, United Kingdom. The picket line ran from 11am - 11pm and a fire was lit to stay warm. Ambulance staff working for five services in England – London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West – are taking part in industrial action over pay and staffing. It is a one day strike and part of an ongoing industrial dispute. The walkout coincides with action being taken by another union, GMB, at several ambulance services.
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  • Postal workers from the CWU protest in Central London on the 9th of December 2022, in Central London, United Kingdom.The mood was boyand, energetic and very determined in getting the demands heard. "Thompson Out" was the demand most heard chanted by the crowd. From Parliament Square the protest went to Buckingham Pallace near by where it ended. The police estimated 17,500 had turned out on a day of national strike. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Just Stop Oil climate activists block traffic in Trafalgar Square on the 6th of October 2022, Central London, United Kingdom. The activists sat in the road blocking two exits, some were super glued to the road, others were chained together in lock-on steel tubes.  The peaceful action created traffic chaos for a couple of hours while police cleared the road. A number of activists were arrested. The activists demand the UK government takes the climate crisis serious and stop all new oil and gas extraction. In spite of the ongoing climate crisis and potential cataclysmic climate change due to fossil fuel emissions, the UK government is planning to open up more than 100 new oil and gas fields and potentially fracking as well. Just Stop Oil aim to disrupt Westminster with civil disobedience throught-out October to get their demands heard. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Britain Is Broken national demonstration on the 5th of November 2022 in Central London, United Kingdom. The costs of living crisis is biting and thousands took to the streets of London to show their resentment against the conservative government and the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The march went across several bridges and passed Downing Street 10 before ending up at Trafalgar Square.
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  • It is the last day to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state in Westminster Hall. The waiting time is more than 10 hours. This part of the queue is opposite Parliament with a few more hours to go.  It is estimated 250.000 people queued for between 10-16 hours to be able to walk past the queen lying-in-state.
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  • Just Stop Oil climate activists glue themselves to a Van Gogh painting at the Couldthard Gallery on the 30th of June 2022, London, Unted Kingdom. The two activists, Louis McKechnie, 21, from Weymouth in Dorset and Emily Brocklebank, 24  a psychology student from Leeds excused themselves to the gallery visitors and briefly explained their action before the gallery was cleared by security and police arrived. Provence, the landscape where the painting 'Peach Trees Blossom' is painted by Vincent van Gogh, is under threat of draught after an unpresedented dry and hot spring, according to Just Stop Oil. The Just Stop Oil activists call for the government to end new oil and gas and for art institutions to join them in civil resistance.
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  • On the first day of the COP26 the Rainbow Warrior defied the authorities and brought 4 climate activists from around the world to Glasgow, to get their voices heard. The banner is Greenpeace's message to the leaders of the world at COP26.
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  • Sept. 1st Greenpeace UK dropped 18 boulders in the South West Deeps marine protected area creating a barrier for bottom trawling 200km off the Cornish coast. The boulder barrier means that bottom trawlers can’t fish dragging their nets across the sea floor like bulldozers in this part of the ocean. The limestone boulders, ranging from 600kg – 1 ½ ton  were dropped from the ship Arctic Sunrise as part of Greenpeace’s ongoing global campaign to save the oceans from destructive fishing. The operation lasted a day with the Marine Management Organisation watching. The marine protected areas around Britain are sensitive ecosystems but fishing on an industrial scale is still ongoing and the boulder barrier is a way to stop trawlers killing the sea bed. Some of the stones carried names of supporters stencilled onto the boulders.
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  • A man enjoys the cool water in the fountain in Traffalgar Square in record breaking heat on the 19th of July 2022, Central London, United Kingdom. Climate change brought on by fossil fuel emmissions is causing havoc across the Uk and Europe with searing temperatures.
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  • Hackney Foodbank distribute food parcels with 3 days of food to people in need. The distribution happens every Wednesday at the St Thomas' Church in Clapton Green, Hackney, East London. The distribution runs from 5pm - 7pm but people queue up already from 3.30pm, even on a rainy day like this. The corona pandemic and lockdowns have made life a lot harder for many as well as difficulties with Universal Credit payments and benefit sanctions and the need for free food is greater now than ever in recent years.
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  • Hundreds of classical musicians play for peace together in Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. The orchestra played the Ukrainian national anthem and other classical pieces for peace to a very moved audience, conducted by Pertr Limonov. The musician came together via a WhatsApp group and have never played together before. On the 11th day of the war more and more people are killed and maimed in Ukraine by Russian forces and more than a million have fled the country. Across the world people turn out demanding and emmidiate ceasefire and Russia out of Ukraine.
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  • Greenpeace activists from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia are blockading a transshipment of Russian oil at sea in northern Denmark. Swimmers and activists in kayaks and rhib boats have 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, in European waters. 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.
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  • Thousands turn out in pro-Ukrainian peace protest calling for an end to Putin’s war in Ukraine on the 27th of February 2022, Trafalgar Square, Central London, United Kingdom. The war in Ukraine has been raging for 4 days and many across the world have turned out to show their support and sympathy for the Ukrainian people and their disgust with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Many protestors are calling for NATO to keep the skies above Ukraine safe from Russian planes and for more arms to the Ukrainian army.
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  • T100 is an annual walking, talking and making festival that encourages multiple stories to surface in Thurrock and the surrounding areas. This day the walk went through Grays town to Grays Beach by the Thames. Kinetika is an internationally renowned company, specialising in creating large-scale hand-painted silks and community projects.
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  • A man collects his washing in Torry, one of Aberdeen's most run down parts. Scotland has long depended on oil extraction from the North Sea but with climate change there is an urgent need to shift to renewable energy like wind power.
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  • T100 is an annual walking, talking and making festival that encourages multiple stories to surface in Thurrock and the surrounding areas. This day was the culmination of walks, including the Platinum Jubilee Pageant. The walk went through Tilbury Town and ended at Tilbury Docks. Kinetika is an internationally renowned company, specialising in creating large-scale hand-painted silks.
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  • Greenpeace activists board a BP oil rig in Cromarty Firth to stop it from further oil drilling at sea, June 10th 2019, Cromarty, Scotland, United Kingdom. The oil rig 'Paul B. Loyd, Jnr', owned by Transocean, was due to head to BP's Vorlich field, 150 miles (241km) east of Aberdeen to drill for oil for BP. Change-over of Greenpeace climber.The occupation by Greenpeace activists subsequently delayed the departure for 5 days and 14 activists were arrested in the process. Greenpeace says that in an age of climate emergency BP should not be drilling for new oil but look for non-fossil fuel means of energy.
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  • The third and final day of the Strike WEF march on Davos, 21th of January 2020, Switzerland. The march on the last day started in Klosters where hundreds of activists took the mountain path to Davos.  The authorities would not allow the marchers to walk o the road to Davos so many opted to walk the ten km on the ardous and snowy hiking trail.  The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only.
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  • Two activists climbed a DLR train at Canary Wharf station and one super glued himself to the carriage, 17th April 2019, Canary Wharf, London,United Kingdom. Reflections of police removing a hand glued onto the DLR carriage window. The environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion has called for civil disobedience and peaceful protest to force the British government to take drastic action on climate change. The group wants the governement to tell the truth and admit that the impact of climate change is much more severe than they say and that action to mitigate catastrophic climate change is urgent.
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  • Bjarne Ottesen collects seaweed by the easternmost coast of Jutland, Denmark. Bjarne Ottesen is the co-founder of Nordisk Tang, which is a family run business. Ten years ago Bjarne was introduced to the idea that seaweed can be the answer to many current environmental issues by Michael Gorbachev. He and Gorbachev were both part of a Green Cross conference in South Africa where Bjarne first realised the huge potential to solve many of the world's food production issues by using seaweed.
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  • Wild swimming. Louise Melgaard Bruun swimming in the waters near Århus, Denmark.
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  • A work crew sails down the Regent's Canal on a misty morning, 27th of November 2020, Hackney, London, United Kingdom. The crew is from the Canal and River Trust and are on their way to King’s Cross further up the canal. It is a misty and cold morning and no one else are on the canal, only the house boats moored along the canal. In the back ground are the now abandoned gas works with its structures disappearing in the mist.
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  • Drone footage of the vessel Arpege flyshooting in the English Channel.<br />
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Flyshooting is a highly unsustainable way of fishing where wires/ropes are laid out for miles into a diamond shape to drive fish into a net at the centre of the wires. <br />
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Greenpeace UK Operation Ocean Witness is a six month operation, involving the new Greenpeace boat called Sea Beaver. Sea Beaver is patrolling the sea off the South Coast of the UK and do what the government has so far failed to do - protect the UK’s marine protected areas from destructive unsustainable fishing, a key Brexit promise which has been broken. Operation Ocean Witness is operating out of Newhaven from June until Autumn 2021.
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  • The catch hauled in by Larche. <br />
Caroline Lucas, MP and Greenpeace UK confront the French flagged, industrial fly shooter fishing vessel Larche at the Bassurelle Sandbank MPA. Displaying a banner reading “This Is A Marine Protected Area" from a RHIB in the English Channel.<br />
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Greenpeace UK Operation Ocean Witness is a six month operation, involving the new Greenpeace boat called Sea Beaver. Sea Beaver is patrolling the sea off the South Coast of the UK and do what the government has so far failed to do - protect the UK’s marine protected areas from destructive unsustainable fishing, a key Brexit promise which has been broken. Operation Ocean Witness is operating out of Newhaven from June until Autumn 2021.
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  • Stewart Runciman has got 750 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleeze was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but it has to be done for animal welfair reasons. It is Carls' second season as sheep shearer and he and Craig work flat-out.
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  • Police asking people to move on in Broadway Market during the second coronavirus national lockdown on November 7th 2020 Hackney, East London, United Kingdom. The UK Government introduced a 4 week lockdown from November 5th - December 2nd to combat the corona virus outbreak. It is the second national lockdown in the UK. It is the third day of the national lockdown and the lockdown restrictions mean that people are only allowed to meet outside, in pairs and only if keeping social distance. Only if they already live together or have formed a social bubble can they interact freely.
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