- Title: Breast-feeding mothers block roads, call for action on climate change
- Date: 9th October 2019
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (OCTOBER 9, 2019) (REUTERS) CROWD OF MOTHERS SEATED ON GROUND RAISING BABIES IN AIR AND CHEERING MOTHER BREAST-FEEDING CHILD / PLACARD READING (English): "DON'T SUCK ME DRY" MOTHERS BREAST-FEEDING CHILDREN CHILD HOLDING PLACARD READING (English): "THIS CAN'T WAIT UNTIL I'M BIGGER" MOTHER HOLDING BABY (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, SALLY DAVIES, SAYING: "I'm concerned she won't have a future. Most immediately living in London I'm concerned about the fact the terrible air quality will be affecting her lungs. But that's just one small piece of the puzzle. I think it's not just her generation, but her children. What kind of planet are they going to inhabit? What sort of opportunities are their going to have? So I couldn't forgive myself. I won't be able to look at her in the eye when she's older if I didn't come out and do something." CROWD OF MOTHERS SEATED ON GROUND BLOCKING ROAD WHILE BREAST-FEEDING CHILDREN POSTER READING (English): "FREE OUT NIPPLES. FREE THEIR FUTURE" EXTINCTION REBELLION LOGO / CHILD LOOKING ON MOTHER AND CHILDREN GATHERED ON STREET TOP DRAPED OVER BABY PRAM READING (English): "I CAN'T WALK YET BUT STAND UP FOR MY PLANET" (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, SOPHIE LOVETT, SAYING: "Well the fact that we're already heading into a state of global insecurity. Climate change is already massively impacting communities in the global south. That is going to start having a huge impact on everyone all over the world. The extreme weather events that are happening here and in Europe that are getting increasingly common. And the impact that that is going to have on food supplies and on being in a liveable environment, probably within my lifetime but most definitely within my children's." VARIOUS OF MOTHERS MARCHING WITH CHILDREN AND PRAMS POLICE OFFICERS BLOCKING PROTESTERS MOTHER HOLDING BABY TALKING TO POLICE OFFICERS MOTHER HOLDING BABY STANDING IN FRONT OF POLICE LINE MOTHERS WALKING AWAY (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER AND VICAR, CAROLINE RISDON, SAYING: "What worries me the most is that she won't have or neither of them will have the full range of flourishing Earth to enjoy really. And I come from South Africa and I think countries that are developing are disproportionately affected by climate change. So if we have the authority and the power to exert some change here in the West then we ought to do that for the benefit of all." MOTHERS SEATED ON GROUND BREAST-FEEDING CHILDREN IN FRONT OF EXTINCTION REBELLION BANNER CHILD FEEDING MOTHERS BREAST-FEEDING PLACARD READING (English): "DON'T SUCK ME DRY" CROWD OF WOMEN IN SQUARE PROTESTERS CHAINED AND GLUED TOGETHER ON GROUND AND POLICE TRY TO RELEASE THEM PROTESTER ON GROUND MOVING HANDS TO BEAT OF MUSIC POLICE OFFICER WEARING EYE PROTECTION GLASSES POLICE OFFICERS TRYING TO RELEASE ACTIVISTS POLICE OFFICERS HAND-CUFFING ACTIVIST ACTIVIST WEARING FACE PROTECTION MASK ACTIVIST BEING CARRIED AWAY BY POLICE OFFICERS POLICE OFFICERS STANDING AROUND ACTIVISTS GLUED TOGETHER ON GROUND
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 15:55
- Keywords: Extinction Rebellion protest Exinction Rebellion mothers protest climate change
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Environment,Climate Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0DMIIV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Mothers staged a mass breast-feeding protest in central London on Wednesday (October 9) as part of two weeks of civil disobedience to push for more to be done to protect the environment.
Concerned about the future of of their children, mothers marched towards Downing Street before blocking roads to breast-feed their children.
"I couldn't forgive myself. I won't be able to look at her in the eye when she's older if I didn't come out and do something," said protester and mother Sally Davies.
The Extinction Rebellion group has been taking action in several countries including Britain, Germany, Austria, Australia, France and New Zealand as it lobbies politicians to go further in cutting carbon emissions.
The protests are the latest stage in a global campaign for tougher and swifter steps against climate change coordinated by the group, which rose to prominence in April when it snarled traffic in central London for 11 days.
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