Quakers join fuel poverty ‘die-in’
Friends were among those protesting against fuel poverty in London
Friends were among a 100-strong group protesting against fuel poverty in London on 28 November.
Participants in ‘No more deaths from fuel poverty: Energy Justice Now!’ represented pensioner, anti-poverty, and climate action groups.
Friends joined in solidarity with those in fuel poverty and as a faith witness to the suffering caused by the current system. They also joined to show their commitment to working towards an alternative energy system.
Sunniva Taylor, programme manager for sustainability and peace, Quaker Peace & Social Witness, said: ‘The protest demonstrates an analysis – shared by many Friends – of the current equality and climate crisis, that both are caused by a neoliberal capitalist economic system which privileges the wellbeing of a few over many, polluting the earth in the process.’
On the same day as the ‘die-in’, Office of National Statistics figures showed 18,200 excess winter deaths in 2013/2014.
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