Met Police arrest six activists at Quaker meeting house over ‘shut down London’ plot

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00:00Yesterday evening I went to a publicly advertised youth demand event.

00:04This was a welcome talk where everyone was welcome to come and hear who we are as a campaign,

00:09come and hear the plan in April.

00:11And the police showed up.

00:13And now we're not talking about just a couple of cops,

00:15we're talking about roughly 30 police breaking down the door of a Quaker meeting house,

00:21storming in, arresting everyone on conspiracy to cause a public nuisance,

00:26seizing everyone's phones and laptops and then dragging everyone away to custody.

00:29We still have three people from that welcome talk in custody.

00:32We're going to a welcome talk.

00:35Like, this is insane.

00:37This is the level of state repression that we are living in and this is a massive wake-up call.

00:41But I think what's really important to take from this is that it means that what we're doing is working.

00:46They are putting massive resources into shutting us down before we've even started

00:50because they know what we are capable of.

00:52We are a community of resistance and we are powerful.

00:56Just hours after we heard that people had been arrested,

00:58we mobilized, we got out and we cared for our community and we are coming back stronger.

01:03We will not be deterred.

01:04We will let this fuel us because we know that it means that we are winning.

01:07It means that the government, that the police, that the state is afraid of us,

01:12that they recognize the power that we have.

01:14The police take our movement seriously, so it's time that we take ourselves seriously too.

01:19It's time that we get together to shut London down in April.

01:22And you can start by joining us on Tuesday 1 April, 6.30pm, Mallett Street, outside the Senate House Library.

01:29We'll see you on the streets.