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Protests at Windsor castle calling for Trump to be in the Hague

Campaigners from Fossil Free London unfurled a banner with a picture of president Trump reading “Climate criminal. War criminal. The only place he’s welcome is The Hague”, inside the grounds of Windsor Castle on Sunday afternoon:

Protesters hold banner reading: Climate criminal. War criminal. The only place he’s welcome is The Hague.

This comes days before Trump arrives for his second state visit in the UK, from Tuesday 16 to Thursday 18 September.

Climate protesters stick it to climate criminal Trump at Windsor Castle

The group chanted:

climate criminal, war criminal, Trump’s not welcome here.

They were there to draw attention to the US president’s climate and foreign policy record:

Academics have warned Trump’s fossil-fuel push has set back environmental progress decades, only exacerbating the climate crisis. This is despite studies showing that the unabated climate crisis would cause 3.4 million deaths per year by the end of the century.

Prominent journalists are just some of those that have come out to argue Trump’s actions globally could surmount to war crimes. Experts have expressed growing concern over Trump’s future plans to permanently move millions of Palestinians out of Gaza. This would potentially breach both the 1949 Geneva conventions and the 1998 Rome statute.

His politics not welcome here

This protest joins a series of actions against the US president’s visit to the UK, with a large demonstration planned in Central London on Wednesday, organised by the Stop Trump Coalition.

Director of Fossil Free London Robin Wells said:

Genocide is unfolding. Seen on our phones through the faces of thousands of screaming children. Floods and fires across Europe get closer each day to our own front doors. But Trump claps and cheers for more.

Not only does he refuse to impose sanctions, he cheers on ethnic cleansing and the seizure of Palestinian land. Not only does he fail to take the bold climate action needed he tears up existing climate policy and crows for his billionaire bros to drill for more oil.

Trump’s politics are not welcome here. This second state visit is a stain on our collective consciousness. We call on people to come out to protest at the Stop Trump Coalition march on Wednesday, 2pm Portland Place.

Featured image via Fossil Free London

By The Canary

This post was originally published on Canary.