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Climate Protesters Create Chaos Blocking Roads
Aug 6th, 2019 at 9:47am
 
Extinction Rebellion protesters create chaos in Brisbane's CBD blocking roads

August 6 2019
ABC News


Climate activists have caused major traffic disruptions in Brisbane's CBD as they march through the city as part of a planned morning of protests intended to disrupt traffic.
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    Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Brisbane's CBD blocking traffic and causing delays
    Dozens of police are in attendance, including mounted police
    The protest follows several others over the last few months that have seen activists arrested

A heavy police presence, including mounted police, is on scene monitoring hundreds of protesters who are moving to William Street after previously occupying the corner of William and Margaret Street.

Some activists who were blocking traffic have been forcibly removed by police and dragged off the road.

"We declare it our duty to act on behalf of our children ... we declare ourselves in rebellion against our government," one protester chanted to the crowd.

Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Tom Howell told the ABC it was a citizen's duty to rebel.

"We cannot be ignored.

"People are uncomfortable with disrupting other people's lives but it is the best option we have left to get people talking about the climate emergency, to get the government responding to it and to kind of make the economy pay attention to it because if people can't go to work then the economy can suffer.

"Every other form of dissidence has failed.

"We've had our petitions, we've had marches, the government is not representing the people," he said.
Hundreds of people holding flags and signs about the environment and climate change march on the road


Translink's Matt Longland said the transport service had additional staff on today to manage disruptions to bus services.

"By all accounts it will be larger and more disruptive than what we've seen in the past couple of weeks.

"We'll have additional people in the network coordination centre and also additional people on the ground that we can deploy into any areas where we're facing any issues.

"And we'll need to obviously work closely with the Queensland Police Service about how the protesters are being managed and how we can keep vehicles — particularly bus services moving through the city efficiently," Mr Longland said.

Extinction Rebellion protestors say governments have failed to protect citizens so it is their duty to act.

Today's protest followed a number of other stunts about climate change and the Adani mine approval that disrupted Brisbane city traffic over the last two months.

In July, members of Extinction Rebellion stopped and started traffic every 10 minutes during peak hour.

On another occasion, nine protestors were arrested after they glued themselves to the road.

In June, Extinction Rebellion blocked part of Brisbane's Victoria Bridge, before they locked themselves together inside a canoe at South Brisbane.
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Re: Climate Protesters Create Chaos Blocking Roads
Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2019 at 11:07am
 
They have been brainwashed by global
warming propaganda -
just like monkey boy Monk.
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Reply #2 - Aug 6th, 2019 at 2:39pm
 
I wonder whether the numbnuts who dropped out of Sydney Uni and slunk home to his parents' 5 bedroom Brisbane waterfront mansion made a cameo appearance. Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #3 - Aug 7th, 2019 at 10:02am
 
They destroyed legal commercial activity in Queensland's greatest city and the NY stock exchange had a 2% crash.
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Reply #4 - Aug 7th, 2019 at 5:15pm
 
Where is all this cash promoting climate change coming from....???
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1. There has never been a more serious assault on our standard of living than Anthropogenic Global Warming..Ajax
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Reply #5 - Aug 7th, 2019 at 5:26pm
 
Chinese car-buyers and its Navy spend heaps. China's coal imports rose to 281.5 million tonnes in 2018, the highest annual figure in four years.
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