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**Start location: Parliament Square**
Last minute reminder of covid guidelines for this event:
If you feel unwell, especially if you have a high temperature, cold or cough or feel have lost your sense of taste, do NOT attend this event, stay at home.
Do not share transport with people who are not members of your own household
During the event
Wear a mask or face covering at all times, especially if you’re cheering, talking to people etc.
Engage in social distancing by keeping a safe distance (1+ metre) from people at all times.
Avoid touching your eyes, mouth and nose. Sanitise your hands before touching your mask or removing your mask.
Sanitise your hands regularly, avoid touching objects that aren’t your own and do not share any equipment.
If you need to cough, cough in a tissue and dispose of it safely (bin or take with you in a bag)
If you feel a particular area is becoming too crowded, please check your distance and move away from others.
Parents and carers of children and young people need to help their children with understanding the importance of hand hygiene, and help them to regularly wash/sanitise.
Leaflets or other information materials should not be handed directly to the public.
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Join us in London for a beautiful, creative, socially distanced grief march. We will rise like the tide to demand protection for our oceans and in protest against global governmental inaction to save our seas.
Timings:
2.30pm Gather
3.00pm Opening talks
3.30pm The march sets off! route TBC
5.00pm Approx end time on South Bank
💙 Dress: Blue, or ocean themed costumes
💙 Colour scheme: Blue, black & white, orange
💙 Placards
💙 Family friendly
💙 Wear face masks & maintain social distance
Please join our event Telegram chat: https://t.me/marineextinctionmarch
Let us know if you’d like to sign up for a specific role in the march…we have roles available so please get in touch:
>> Wellbeing team
>> Deescalation
>> First Aid
>> Stewards
Our march is a movement of movements; groups involved include Ocean Rebellion, Sea Life Extinction, Animal Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion. We are moving together to help shift to a more beautiful, balanced, rejuvenating world.
We will have beautiful flags and banners created by XR Art Blockers (and others), and incredible 3D sea life sculptures by XR Skeletons and local groups. SHOAL and other costumed performers will join us in the procession along with music from XR Sounds and Music.
We are celebrating the glorious biodiversity found in our seas. We are grieving the destruction of our oceans and marine life due to climate breakdown and human interference, and the loss of lives, homes and livelihoods from rising sea levels.
We would love to see your ocean based costumes, or come along dressed in shades of BLUE. Sea life props welcome of endangered or extinct creatures, or bring along signs or placards.