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Youth Demand protest group disrupt London marathon
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28/04/2025
Protest group, Youth Demand, sprayed powder red paint across tower bridge during the weekend’s London marathon.
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Sunday was a huge day for London, with a number of high-profile people attending the 45th TCS Marathon.
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Just as the men's elite race passed across Tower Bridge on Sunday morning,
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protesters from the Youth Demand Group threw red powder paint over the runners
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with a recording showing how police made contact with the protesters less than 20 seconds.
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After the demonstration began.
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So what exactly is Youth Demand?
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Because if you have been following the news in London recently,
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you may have noticed they are becoming increasingly active in the capital.
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Well, they are a pro-Palestinian and environmental activist group,
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who, according to their website, are demanding that the government must stop all trade with Israel
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and, quote-unquote, make the rich pay by raising £1 trillion by 2030 from the super-rich
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and fossil fuel elite to pay damages to communities and countries harmed by fossil fuel burning.
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Youth Demand is actually an offshoot of Just Stop Oil's youth wing
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and have so far been seen to employ similar disruptive tactics to the environmental protest group.
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It is worth noting that Just Stop Oil's final disruptive protest took place on Saturday
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and, according to the Evening Standard newspaper,
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the group has threatened to shut down London this summer.
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And, according to the Evening Standard newspaper,
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