Watch the 83-year-old who was arrested after the DLR protest
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An 83-year-old grandfather has been arrested thirteen times in the name of climate change.
Veteran Extinction Rebellion campaigner Phil Kingston was arrested by police after the DLR protest on Thursday.
Former probation officer Phil, from Patchway, Bristol, was one of the protestors who tried to disrupt public transport in London and glued his left hand to a Docklands Light Railway train at Shadwell.
Mr. Kingston said: “I’m doing this primarily for my grandchildren because I’ve learned that what they’re heading towards at the moment is an increase in temperature of over three degrees centigrade.”
“Now that is suffering and death on an enormous scale, loss of food supplies, and I’m just here to ring an alarm bell.”
“I take the law very seriously. But when the law is supporting corporations who are ruining the earth, I’m not accepting that at all. It’s not going to work – the earth cannot be paid for. Many of us are in a position where we have nothing to lose.”
Mr. Kingston said he is prepared to be arrested and go to prison if that’s what it takes to get the politicians to listen. He said that he is trying to make the world a better place and he is ready to get arrested for this.
He said he wants people to open their eyes and see what’s happening to their children and grandchildren and what we are handing over to them is.
When he was asked to give one message, he said: “Love each other and love the earth.”
The protestors were arrested after they tried to disrupt public transport in London and the Metropolitan Police issued a Section 14 order to disrupt the event.
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