XR Carmen’s Carbon Procession
Westminster, London, UK. Tue 2 Jul 2019
After the opera performance, the XR drummers play
and the procession moves on to the next oil company, the China National
Petroleum Corporation
opposite Victoria Station, where the performance is repeated
with Carmen
and more information
and the attempt to deliver the XR handbook and a letter
before we get another opera performance
and the XR climate crime scene taps on the pavement
The procession moved on to Hyde Park
where there was a short rest break
before going under Park Lane on the subway to go into Mayfair
The procession was by this time running rather late
It went through a floral arch in Grosvenor Square and walked
past the street corner where another performance had been planned
- and past an illegally parked symbol of the kind of extreme wasteful consumption
that has got the planet in such a mess
on its way to the next oil company in the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative,
Saudi Aramco
where Carmen again told them of the need for a huge cut in global
oil production to combat global warming
The try to enter the offices to deliver a letter and a copy of the
XR book 'This Is Not A Drill' but were stopped
by security, who took the letter and book, promising to deliver them
to the company.
Again we got a remarkable opera performance
and the XR Crime Scene tape
before the procession moved off towards the next performances, ending
up with REPSOL and BP in St James's Square
and then going on to Trafalgar Square, where one of the giant screens
sponsored by BP was relaying the
performance of Carmen from the Royal Opera House. But I was getting tired
and left at this point.
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