Life Of An Environmental Activist | Generation Activism

[Music] it's not quite a chained and fired breakdown 107 to 7 hours it's the hunger strike fiction rebellion in the middle of a climate crisis and it's time to act in a time of crisis who don't need hope we need courage I've stopped unique and I'm working to build a rebellion and doing so I need access to Internet I need access to the research around what creates an effective civil resistance movie dr. King Ella Baker as I come to the library put more work into this than I've ever done is anythi

ng in my life beforehand the hardest thing though is reconciling that kind of workload with your own personal life my life with my girlfriend Bonnie and how little time I can spend with her because of it [Music] the point of us targeting Tory's labor and the SNP was the highlight the fact that they are not taking a strong enough stand against the heat their expansion we took our message to their headquarters to highlight the in justices that are happening in those buildings it's not quite a chai

n and quiet breakdown whoa as I was being arrested and being dragged into that van with a girl at ITV filming me with his big old camera I was thinking BAM that was a great opportunity to get my message across the media a key instrument and how people are educated about issues whether it's you know being arrested for putting a chalk on a building or whether it's the commitment to go to prison I'm prepared to create that sacrifice I was arrested on Monday along with seven others for putting salt

spray outside this building and I'm back again today to start an indefinite hunger strike against the Heathrow expansion 58 hours since the hunger strike I've been really feeling the hunger today for us the hunger strike tactic was something important because it reflects so much for our own history know the history of the suffragettes how they worked create change its 177 hours into the hunger strike I've lost five kilos east last week my stomach this morning felt like I was upside down no ill n

o tired all day it's hard to know we're getting stuff in for we into a hunger stroke the lack of energy that you feel that sense of just yearning for food like it's something so special a few days before the vote we thought we need something I can make a bang something they could go viral on social media because you made you think did that guy just commit suicide and protest against climate change the energy was building outside on Parliament squares who are waiting for the vote and we have to t

ake that energy and put it into action so he stormed Parliament tonight in Westminster protests in the lobby of Parliament to go alongside the debate within even after years of discussion Heathrow stirs deep emotions we felt you know passionate about being in Parliament because it is that centre of power and that's why we wanted to speak say the central power MPs have tonight voted overwhelmingly to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport I was pretty crushed after i saw the vote results it's s

o painful to me that loss and that range - they wouldn't do anything about it [Music] do you see me the hardest thing for me about why do is the toll that it takes on my relationship with Bonnie it's so difficult and it's internal struggle I think about every day [Music]