1 hour ago Youth Demand protest: Activists block roads in central London as they threaten to ‘shut down’ city

Protesters blocked a number of key routes in London on Saturday

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12 h. ago Youth Demand protest LIVE: Activists threaten to ‘shut down London’ with park protest over Gaza and climate crisis

Protesters are gathering from 11am at Lincoln’s Inn Fields

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23 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after swimming in lake

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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25 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after entering water

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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62 h. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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4 d. ago London protests LIVE: Youth Demand accuse Government of 'trying to shut us down' at pro

The ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ rally has begun in Bloomsbury

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4 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London

Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London  Yahoo News Canada

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5 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? Protest group at centre of Quaker house arrests threaten month of disruptive action

Youth Demand will be holding open rallies every week during April

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5 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group threatening to 'shut down' London for a month

Protest group Youth Demand has threatened to 'shut down' London with a month of co-ordinated action starting on Tuesday

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