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 Our 'Kyoto March' this year is a
"March to the End of the World"
Here are our 'Grim Reapers' !
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 At Exxon HQ, Leatherhead, 7.00 am : the determined band at the start of their 20 mile march.
The guy in white with the hood is a "Horseman of the Apocalypse' (OK he has'nt got a horse, but that would be cheating, would'nt it....)
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 And here's Darth Vader ! ....although the real Darth Vader generally goes disguised as a certain 'Mr. Lee Raymond',
CEO of ExxonMobil (known as "the Darth Vader of Climate Change").
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  An 'angel' at the Esso HQ : heres Sophie our youngest campaigner. She did the whole march...but by Mum-power.
Thats Mum, 'Ruth Jarman', with a 'Christian Ecology' banner.
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 Epsom 8.00 am and its the 'Esso-man from Hell' !
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 And the 'Esso-man from Hell' has got a friend !
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 Our apocalyptic band on the march: Richard on the trike that carried our luggage...and the head of a recently sacrificed victim (OK, wishful thinking...)....
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 A bunch of us at the half-way resting point, Wimbledon, where we were met by the 'angelic' Auriel Glanville, from the local 'Friends of the Earth' group.
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 At the Esso Station, Colliers Wood : with 'Bush-and-Crossbones' flags (or is that the "Jolly Bodger" ?)
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 On the march. Thats Julia and Sharon on the right. Fast-forward this for 20 miles !
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 At Clapham Common, time for a brief rest. By now the numbers are swelling !.
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 At the Imperial War Museum Park:
lots more people have gathered here, where the big march though Central London will begin.
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 That's the Evil Esso-man and a "Whore of Babylon" (Lucy Wills)
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All behind the 'StopEsso' banner and the march is about to move off.
Thats Will St Leger - from Irish StopEsso - on the right hand end
(as we loook at it) of the banner. He was 1 of our speakers later on.
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The march comes over Westminster Bridge, banners flying.
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 Still on Westminster Bridge.
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 Another banner
and in front are (L to R)
Debby Burchill (Greenwich FOE) and Steph and Jim Lodge (Southwark FOE)
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 Trumpet of doom; and a man wearing
'solar panels' to remind everyone there is a way of avoiding 'The End of the World' if only those in power
(and especially the world's most powerful man, George Bush) would chose to pursue it !
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 This is what we think about Esso/ExxonMobil !
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 Green Party In evidence !
Thats Miranda Dunn (Senior Campaigns-person-in-chief !)with the wooly hat and Tim Turner facing camera.
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 Its those artistic placards again !
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 The Samba Band !
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The end of the march : some of the marchers who came all the way relaxing at
last at "The End of the World Party" in Grosvenor Square. (This is Rhys Howell and friends from East Anglia Uni : see his account ).
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 Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP
(on right), our first speaker. Thats our 'party host' in the velvet suit and Andrew Simpson with the megaphone.
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 Roger Higman, senior Climate Person at Friends of the Earth, speaking.
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 Its "Bush the Grim Reaper" ! Hes obviously
exultant over something: maybe its the money he made from Insider Trading at Harken Energy.
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 Bush-the-Grim-Reaper (Richard Solly)and a "Whore of Babylon" (Lucy Wills)
dancing (and throwing dollar notes around) to the tune of "Money, Money, Money"....its all
about the money he and his mates make from oil, at the expense of the rest of the world. Thats not actually Batman looming over them.....its Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(in those days the President was allowed to have a brain) !
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 The Samba band keeps the party going into the dark hours.... Hurrah for the "Rhythms of Resistance " !
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