{"id":10264,"date":"2019-12-05T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2019-12-04T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:45:46","slug":"hackney-xr-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=10264","title":{"rendered":"Hackney XR March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Friday I’d had to leave the Extinction Rebellion ‘The Air That We Grieve’<\/em> march as it reached the Hackney border to go to a protest at Senate House, but on Saturday afternoon there was another march as a part of the ‘East London Uprising weekend, walking through the centre of Hackney from Hackney Fields and on to the centre of the event in London Fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before the march in Hackney Fields there were a couple of things taking place, a dance performance which I found less than exciting visually and some kind of meditation thing which was frankly off-putting. There is an odd-ball new age side to XR that I think works very strongly against it appealing to the great majority of people and which certainly turns me off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But there were the people, the giant bees and the skeletons to photograph, so I stayed and took pictures, and of course I wanted to photograph the march. But it did make me think that perhaps this was a part of the reason why of the several million East Londoners only a couple of hundred were with us for this march. XR has had a remarkable success, but only with some sections of the community and I think rather more in small towns and rural areas than in working class urban communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking through the many pictures I made on the march it doesn’t really look like a Hackney event, though I’m sure many or most of those taking part were from the area. Official figures show that “around\u00a040% of the population come from Black and Minority Ethnic groups” but these were severely under-represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn’t a criticism of those that did take part, and I think the XR has been important in raising awareness of the urgency of the enviromental crisis we are now facing. It has performed a vital service and we see its efforts represented to some extent in the manifestos of all the political parties in the current general election – though so far there has been little real commitment by our government – or those of most other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a hot day and I’d been on my feet for several hours and I needed a rest by the time the protest passed Hackney Town Hall. I had intended to continue to the festival taking place on London Fields, but couldn’t bring myself to walk any further, and after a brief rest made my way to Hackney Central to begin my journey home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More pictures at East London Extinction Rebellion March<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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