![]() ![]() On the A12, a busy highway linking London and the neighboring county of Essex, motorists were greeted with a large spray-painted banner reading “DOWN WITH THE CROWN.”Īround 180 miles west of the epic pageantry in London, on Wales’ remote and wild west coast, putting on a royal event seemed like a slam dunk, particularly after the popularity of a similar event for the queen’s jubilee last year. Under gray skies and British drizzle, a green space on London’s King’s Road that had been set aside for coronation picnics was still empty by midday (7 a.m. That’s according to a Facebook search that is likely a small sample of the actual total of abandoned parties. that have been canceled because of a lack of demand for tickets. But that is now the state we are in.”įurther evidence of this apathy can be seen in the dozen or so coronation events around the U.K. One of the activists arrested, Kush Naker, 33, who is a doctor of infectious diseases from London said, “I never thought in my life that I would be terrified that the police might arrest me for protesting peacefully in the U.K. Police arresting a Just Stop Oil campaigner at the coronation. “We will continue to do whatever is nonviolently possible to end new oil and gas,” spokesperson Mel Carrington said in an email. “While everyone is focused on a billionaire in a shiny hat, the government is signing off on plans to destroy the lives of millions of ordinary people,” said a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil, whose disruptive direct actions have ranged from blockading oil refineries to gluing themselves to the frames of valuable artworks. ![]() The Metropolitan Police, which is facing a crisis of public confidence after an official report in March found it to be institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic, declined to provide further details on the detentions. ![]()
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