Picture: Simon Dawson/Reuters/African News Agency Actress Thompson. Picture: Hannah McKay/ReutersThe environmental pressure group Extinction Rebellion is calling for a week of civil disobedience against what it says is the failure to tackle the causes of climate change. Picture: Frank Augstein/AP/African News AgencyPicture: Simon Dawson/Reuters/African News Agency Protestors hold their hands glued together at Oxford Circus in London.
The protests did not cause travel disruption on Friday during one of Britain's main holiday weekends, but police said they have arrested more than 570 people so far this week. She was one of several actors who read poems celebrating the beauty of nature from a pink boat lodged by the protesters at Oxford Circus in central London.
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