Climate activists block part of main highway around Amsterdam, near former headquarters of ING bank

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(30 Dec 2023)
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Amsterdam, Netherlands - 30 December 2023
1. Mid of Extinction Rebellion activists climbing onto the highway
2. Pan of activists to the A10 highway
3. Mid of activists standing beside of the highway
4. Police vans arriving
5. Various of activists standing beside of the highway, one climbing up pole
6. Activists walking on the highway
7. Wide of activists walking with a banner reading (English) ”Change or die”
8. Mid of police officers
9. Various of activists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sebastiaan Vannisselroy, Extinction Rebellion spokesman:
”We are demanding that the ING stop financing the fossil industry. That's putting us into oblivion. It's it's putting the earth into really dangerous territory. And we've tried to do that in so many ways. We went to their shareholder meetings, we went to their local offices, we went to their main office multiple times with hundreds of rebels, activists. And they don't engage with us. They still stick to their very polluting plans. And so we rise up for the safety for us all. The Netherlands is a low-lying country. We're threatened by ocean rise. So we want to, yeah, safeguard the future for all of us.”
11. Tilt up on the banner reading (Dutch)” You can’t escape anymore.”
12. Close up on a man with a gas mask
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul (70) Climate activist:”
“First of all, to make aware that this is not the way to go on. And the problem is that all the amount that comes to them is money making money (for investments in fossil industries ), and it's also for the shareholders. So, people need to know that we will not survive in this way.”
14. Various of police and activists
15. Close up on activists who glowed hands on the road
15. Close up on glued hands on the road
16. Mid of the activists
17. Close up on a glued hand on the road
18. Mid of the police
19 Wide of the ING House (ex-ING HQ) exterior

STORYLINE:
Climate activists blocked part of the main highway around Amsterdam near the former headquarters of ING bank on Saturday to protest its financing of fossil fuels.

The Amsterdam Municipality said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that traffic authorities closed part of the road and diverted traffic “to prevent a life-threatening situation."

Hundreds of activists walked onto the road in the latest road blockade organized by the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion. Earlier this year, the activist organization repeatedly blocked a highway leading into The Hague.

Some of Saturday's protesters walked along the closed A10 highway carrying a banner emblazoned with the words “Change or die” as two police vans drove slowly behind them.

Another person carried a handwritten banner that read: “ING get out of oil and gas now!”

The protest came despite ING announcing earlier this month that it is accelerating its moves to phase out loans for fossil fuel exploration.

ING made its announcement a week after nearly 200 countries at the COP28 climate meeting in Dubai agreed to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a document that critics said contained significant loopholes.

Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Let de Jong said the phase-out plan was not fast enough.

“We demand that ING immediately stops all fossil fuel financing,” De Jong said in a statement ahead of the protest. “Every day, people are dying around the world because of the climate and ecological crisis. That has to stop.”

At past protests, in The Hague, police used a water cannon to force activists off the road and arrested hundreds of people.

AP video by Ahmad Seir



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