{"id":12043,"date":"2021-04-19T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T10:07:01","slug":"police-surround-berta-caceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12043","title":{"rendered":"Police surround Berta C\u00e1ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The pink yacht that Extinction Rebellion had brought to Oxford Circus was named after Honduran environmental activist Berta C\u00e1ceres. On March 7th 2016 year I had photographed a vigil in her memory<\/a> outside the Honduran Embassy in London. The leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH) who had been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work against the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Project in R\u00edo Blanco, funded by the World Bank and the Dutch government, she was murdered in her home on March 3. She had previously received death threats from the Honduran National Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met didn’t actually arrest the pink yacht, which had been at the centre of the circus since Monday, but on Friday 19th April 2019 surrounded it and arrested any of those who had been protecting it in the centre of the road junction who refused to move away, including a number who had been locked on to the boat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A larger police cordon surrounded the whole of the road junction, and people inside it were instructed to leave or face arrest. XR’s ‘Red Rebel Brigade’ made their way around the outside of this cordon, while others sang and danced inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The numbers inside slowly fell as police allowed people to leave but stopped anyone – including a man who told them he was the owner of the yacht – from entering. He made an effort to persuade the crowd to break the cordon, but was held back by friends and the crowd followed the XR principle of non-violence against the police and sat still, watching as the police made arrests or slow drifting away to Marble Arch or other areas still occupied by protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slowly and deliberately the police cleared the protesters, carrying away many to the waiting police vans. I stayed for several hours taking pictures before deciding it was time to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier that day I had been at the Oxford Circus ‘Sea of Protest’ for the start of the day’s activities to show ‘Love For The Earth’ on the 5th day of the occupation, and had photographed Dame Emma Thompson arriving and speaking at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She received a warm welcome from Extinction Rebellion supporters but some snide comments from the press about having come from the USA by plane to speak at the event. She could hardly have swum and although I’d rather we had a system that didn’t worship celebrities, given the world as it is, I welcome them using their fame to support the fight against global extinction and other essential causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I left a few minutes after she had finished speaking and was still being besieged by photographers and journalists, answering their questions from the deck of Berta C\u00e1ceres. There had been another event I’d wanted to photograph scheduled for Trafalgar Square, but no sign of it when I arrived, so I returned to Oxford Circus. In the short time I’d been away, Emma Thompson had left and police had moved in to surround the yacht and begin the process of clearing the junction. By the evening the yacht had been towed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police clear XR from Oxford Circus<\/a>
Emma Thompson speaks at XR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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