Mass protests are planned for the next eight days:
The Met said protesters were disrupting traffic on both streets and said it had specialist teams on standby "to respond to any protesters who lock or glue themselves to street furniture or complicated structures".Extinction Rebellion spokespeople have said they want people to "flood the streets of London" and that they will "create the most roadblocks we ever have with a new action design".
On Saturday, the crowd sat down across Oxford Circus and the famous streets it connects, chanting "save our planet" and "whose streets? Our streets". They carried banners that read "I am here for nature and children", "navel gazing into disaster" and "life on earth is dying".Extinction Rebellion billed the protest as part of "the final push in the plan to end fossil fuels"On Friday, two protesters from the climate movement shut down Tower Bridge by abseiling off the sides of the London landmark and unfurling a huge banner that read "end fossil fuels now".
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