A group of LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted the London Pride March
At around 1:25pm, nine LGBTQ+ Just Stop Oil supporters blocked the parade in front of the Coca-Cola float.Several were arrested, the Metropolitan Police have since confirmed.
The force tweeted: ‘At 1.30pm a small number of protestors sat down in the road at Piccadilly junction with Down Street causing the‘At 1.46pm hours, seven people were arrested for public nuisance. At 1.47pm the road was cleared and the Parade has continued.’Pink paint was sprayed over the road as part of the demonstrationActivists asked that the organisation cease accepting sponsorship money from ‘high polluting industries’.
This afternoon’s action comes after LGBTQ+ representatives from Just Stop Oil met with London Pride to discuss their demands, after it was revealed Just Stop Oil would consider disrupting the event.Square on their own Pride-themed slow march. A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: ‘Pride was born from protest. It speaks to how far we’ve come as a community, that high polluting industries and the banks that fund them, now see Pride as a useful vehicle for sanitising their reputations, waving rainbow flags in one hand whilst accelerating social collapse with the other.
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