It's not climate change, its climate breakdown.
We are standing by no longer.
It's 177 hours into the hunger strike.
OK, we're walking up to it now.
Here we go.
We are good to go.
We are the extinction rebellion! Again!
We are the extinction rebellion.
We're in the middle of a climate crisis
and it's time to act.
People are organising.
In a time of crisis we don't need hope.
We need courage.
I've stopped uni.
And I'm working to build a rebellion.
And in doing so, I need access to Internet.
I need access to the research around what creates
an effective civil resistance movement.
Dr King. Ella Baker.
And so I've come to the library.
I'm putting more work into this than I've ever done into anything in my life beforehand.
The hardest thing though is reconciling that kind of workload
with your own personal life,
my life with my girlfriend, Bonnie.
And how little time I can spend with her because of it.
# We're going to rise like the water
# We're going to shut this system down. #
The point of us targeting Tories, Labour and the SNP
was to highlight the fact that they are not taking
a strong enough stance against the Heathrow expansion.
We took our message to their headquarters
to highlight the injustices that are happening in those buildings.
Vote no Heathrow! It is not climate change. Its climate breakdown.
Walk, Ronnie. And this government is complicit in what is happening.
As I was being arrested and being dragged into that van
with a guy filming me with his big old camera, I was thinking,
"Bam, that was a great opportunity to get my message across."
They know what they're doing and they keep going forward.
The media are a key instrument in how people are educated about issues.
Whether it's, you know, being arrested for putting chalk
on a building, or whether it's the commitment to go to prison,
I'm prepared to create that sacrifice.
Vote no Heathrow!
I was arrested on Monday, along with seven others,
for putting chalk spray outside this building.
Vote no Heathrow!
And I'm back again today to start an indefinite hunger strike
against the Heathrow expansion.
We're 58 hours into the hunger strike.
I've been really feeling the hunger today.
Vote no Heathrow! Vote no Heathrow!
For us, the hunger strike tactic was something important,
because it reflects so much of our own history, you know?
The history of the suffragettes and how they worked to create change.
Vote no Heathrow! Vote no Heathrow!
It's 177 hours into the hunger strike.
I've lost five kilos this last week.
Eh, my stomach this morning felt like it was upside down.
I felt ill. I felt tired all day.
It's hard to know what you're getting yourself in for when you do a hunger strike.
The lack of energy that you feel,
that sense of just yearning for food, like it's something so special.
A few days before the vote we thought we needed something
to make a bang, something that could go viral on social media.
Because it made you think, "Did that guy just commit suicide in protest against climate change?"
Vote no Heathrow!
The energy was building outside on Parliament Square
as we were waiting for the vote.
And we had to take that energy and put it into action.
So we stormed parliament.
VOICEOVER: Tonight in Westminster, protests in the lobby of Parliament
to go alongside the debate within.
Even after years of discussion, Heathrow stirs deep emotions.
We felt, you know, passionate about being in Parliament
because it is that centre of power.
That's what we wanted to speak to - the centre of power.
MPs have tonight voted overwhelmingly to build
a third runway at Heathrow Airport.
I was pretty crushed after I saw the vote results.
It was so painful to me, that loss
and that rage that they wouldn't do anything about it.
The hardest thing for me about what I do
is the toll that it takes on my relationship with Bonnie.
It's so difficult.
And it's an internal struggle that I think about every day.