On Monday afternoon, Extinction Rebellion held a peaceful climate lullaby in Hereford City Centre.
A group of protesters walked through the city centre, before performing the lullaby next to the Hereford Bull, near the Black and White House in High Town.
From Extinction Rebellion Marches:
Extinction Rebellion members and supporters were in Hereford on Monday performing the Climate Lullaby. It follows a desperate, weary mother widowed and displaced by the expected consequence of Climate change.
She and her young son are seeking somewhere safe, as resources have been destroyed by drought/ heatwaves/ fires/ floods /storms and rising sea levels.
She pauses to rest, and sings to her son of her anger and despair while trying to comfort her baby and find some hope for the very uncertain future. She is with a protective spiritual choir who observe her anguish with compassion and sorrow for loss of what was, the failure to act and ensuing destruction of everything we take for granted.
It is an urgent warning to the experience of Climate Refugees, which the recent IPCC report identified and we can already see on our TV screens. However, we all know when people come together, act together, the impossible becomes possible.
Here are a selection of photos from the protest:
