Environmental campaigners rally against Black Friday's ‘catastrophic consumption’
BLACK FRIDAY was marked by protests across the country today, with Extinction Rebellion (XR) rallying against the “catastrophic effects of mass consumption” while trade unionists slammed conditions at Amazon.
The actions came as hundreds of thousands of children in Britain were out of school once again to join global climate strikes.
In Oxford Circus, shoppers were urged to rethink buying into black Friday’s “celebration of consumerism” by XR activists holding up signs reading “Fashion = Ecocide.”
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