Santas, Sardines & Earth Strike: On Saturday 14th December 2019 the Santas have been on BMX bikes elevating cash for charity, Italians have been supporting a spontaneous Italian anti-fascist motion and Earth Strike, a small group of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialists in opposition to environmental destruction held their first protest in Brixton.
Santas BMX Life Charity Trip

If you’re in London right now look out for the tenth BMX Life’s Santa Cruise using across the capital in a charity trip elevating cash for the Evelina Kids’s Coronary heart Organisation, ECHO. There’s a hyperlink for donations on the web page linked.

The trip begins because it did 5 years in the past within the graffiti tunnel underneath Waterloo Station and 10.30am and the costume code is Santa, Elf, Snowman,Christmas Tree or Reindeer.

To date by these rides and plenty of raffles BMX Life have raised over £180,000 for ECHO and so they hope that this 12 months’s trip shall be greater than ever. After I took these footage in 2019 there have been round 700 riders.

From Leake St they moved off to Discussion board Magnum Sq. the place some santas demonstrated their using abilities earlier than the group left to trip round London.
Extra footage on My London Diary at Santas BMX Life Charity Trip
‘6000 Sardines’ London protest – Parliament Sq.

The Sardines motion was a grass roots political motion which started in Italy in November 2019 after a flash mob in Bologna opposing right-wing chief Matteo Salvini packed the principle sq. in Bologna “like sardines”.

Folks have been appalled on the rise of Salvini due to his anti-immigrant insurance policies, hate speech and Euroscepticism and the motion prompted different ‘sardine’ protests throughout Italy and by Italians elsewhere, with demonstrations, flash mobs and on-line actions.

14th December was declared ‘World Sardine Day’, with comparable rallies throughout Europe and within the USA in addition to in lots of cities and cities in Italy. The entire speeches whereas I used to be on the occasion have been in Italian.

The motion ended with the elections in January 2020 within the Bologna area of northern Italy, which resulted in a powerful victory for the centre-left who nearly doubled the vote that they had obtained 5 years earlier.
Extra footage ‘6000 Sardines’ London protest.
Earth Strike South London – Brixton

The protest by Earth Strike South London started ther protest in opposition to environmental destruction with speeches and handing out fliers at a road stall on the nook of Coldharbour Lane and Brixton Rd, the place members of the Revolutionary Communist Group collaborating have been additionally promoting their newspaper.

The fliers identified that many corporations who commerce on our excessive streets are nonetheless making an enormous contribution to international warming and environmental destruction and so they went on to march up Brixton Highway stopping for speeches and to protest at a few of the main culprits.

They started by going into Barclays Financial institution who nonetheless have enormous investments in fossil fuels and are main backers of fracking within the UK. They ignored financial institution workers who instructed them they may not protest inside however handed out leaflets and made a speech concerning the financial institution’s actions earlier than leaving after a couple of minutes.

Subsequent cease was H&M the place they identified he style business is the second largest producer of greenhouse gases, emitting 1.2 billion tons a 12 months and textile manufacture creates 20% of all water air pollution. They stood outdoors and ignored a safety man who instructed them to go away.

A few cops arrived and talked to the protesters who assured them that their protest could be peaceable. The officers then went away.

The protesters moved on to EE the place they identified cell phones and different comparable digital produces all want minerals resembling Coltan, and the battle for these is behind the horrific wars which have taken place within the Congo area. Mining corporations are additionally enormous exploiters of African labour, create giant quantities of air pollution. lay enormous areas to waste and evade taxes on an enormous scale.

Additional alongside the highway they stopped briefly to level out that Boots avoids paying taxes within the UK, cheats the NHS and sells palm oil merchandise made by clearing forests, destroying ecosystems. They make enormous earnings from the NHS, and are mentioned to have charged charged them £1500 for pots of cream they promote for £2, in addition to promoting palm oil merchandise grown on land cleared from historic forests, disrupting ecosystems and ensuing within the lack of species together with orangutans.

At Sainsbury’s they reminded clients that it sells many merchandise that hurt the surroundings and result in international warming, together with beef that comes from ranches made by burning the Amazon Forest, destroying ecosystems and displacing indigenous tribes.

They held one other protest outdoors Vodaphone, additionally a tax avoider and as properly reliant on these minerals fuelling wars in central Africa earlier than strolling on to Brixton Police station.

Right here they held a short vigil for these killed by police in Brixton, together with Ricky Bishop and Sean Rigg who was crushed to dying contained in the police station in 2008.
I left the group right here as they have been to proceed their protest at outlets on the alternative aspect of Brixton Highway.
Extra footage at Earth Strike South London.
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