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Eco-activists plan to storm Parliament in protest

Eco-activists are planning to storm Parliament in a mass protest against global warming, the Evening Standard has revealed.

  • Evening Standard
  • Published: 19:37 September 12, 2008
  • Gulf News

London: Eco-activists are planning to storm Parliament in a mass protest against global warming, the Evening Standard has revealed.

The demonstration is being led by leading campaigner Tamsin Omond. A member of 'Plane Stupid', she occupied the roof of the Palace of Westminster in February to protest against a third runway at Heathrow.

Now the 23-year-old Cambridge graduate is plotting a much bigger women-led protest, to mirror the attempted 'rush' of Parliament by suffragettes.

She faces jail if caught because bail conditions imposed after her protest prevent her from entering Parliament.

Miss Omond said she was seeking legal advice to get the bail restrictions overturned in time for the 13 October rally - the 100th anniversary of the Suffragette Rush, organised by Emmeline Pankhurst, who was imprisoned for a breach of the peace.

The Climate Rush is the latest in a series of stunts arranged by a new breed of eco-activists.

This week six Greenpeace activists were cleared of causing £30,000 [about Dh195,000] of criminal damage to a coal-fired power station.

The organisers of Climate Rush - which men have also been invited to join although most protesters will be women - has three demands: no airport expansion; no new coal-fired power stations; and new government policies to tackle global warming.

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