Extinction Rebellion protest day eight – in pictures
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history
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Climate change activists among tents at the Extinction Rebellion’s camp at Marble Arch, London
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty
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Protestors make 1,000 pink paper boats at the camp, , where they have been given permission by police to gather
Photograph: John Keeble/Getty
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Extinction Rebellion protestors stage a mass ‘die in’ inside London’s Natural History Museum
Photograph: Mason Boycott-Owen/PA
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Activists wore white facepaint and dressed in red robes at the museum
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty
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The activists gathered underneath the skeleton of a blue whale in the Hintze hall
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty
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Swedish schoolgirl climate change activist Greta Thunberg speaks at Friends House in London in a forum co-organised by Guardian Events
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Protesters keep cool at the Marble Arch camp ...
Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA
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... and there were speeches and live music
Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty
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Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA
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One of the younger activists at the camp
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Amanda Gazidis performs smudging – the burning of herbs – which is claimed to purify a space and clear negative energy
Photograph: John Keeble/Getty
