{"id":30068,"date":"2019-10-18T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30068"},"modified":"2019-10-18T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:00:02","slug":"extinction-rebellion-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/extinction-rebellion-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Rebellion round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the penultimate day of London&#8217;s Extinction Rebellion, so here&#8217;s our best bits from what has happened today.<\/p>\n<p>The group of protesters have been camped out in central London for the last couple of weeks, hoping to encourage the government to become more proactive in helping the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, our team has been broadcasting on Facebook Live. You can watch them all on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/voiceoflondonuk\/posts\/?ref=page_internal\">Facebook page<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters were singing through the streets:<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, someone was seen climbing the Elizabeth tower to hang banners:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our audio round up showcases the best comments from the Rebellion:<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/698274634&#8243; params=&#8221;color=#ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;300&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Videos show the protestors marching towards Parliament this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d6d8VWQEmYk]<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=34&#8211;Jd0lbGM]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The protesters plan to go home tomorrow, but will this convince people to do more to save the planet? Comment below your thoughts on the Extinction Rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Niamh Hutchings | Images and videos: Ashleigh Swan and Ivana Finch<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the penultimate day of London&#8217;s Extinction Rebellion, so here&#8217;s our best bits from what has happened today. The group of protesters have been camped out in central London for the last couple of weeks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":30086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,93,101,103,134,138,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-environment","category-news","category-politics","category-radio","category-uknews","category-veganism","category-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}