A climate change rally will be taking place in Leeds city centre, demonstrators will be protesting energy company profits and the cost of living crisis.
Activists from climate, trade union, faith, youth and community groups will be taking to Briggate on Saturday (November 5) from noon until 2pm. The protest is being organised by the Yorks and Humber Climate Justice Coalition.
The event has been named Leeds Demands Climate Justice and will be kicking off near House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer.
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The event page says: "Our leaders claim they are committed to reducing carbon emissions but at the same time are intent on expanding oil and gas extraction, using vast sums of public money to prop up obscene profits for the fossil fuel industry, maintaining our dangerous dependency on the same corporations that are not only trashing the climate and the natural environment but also forcing millions into fuel poverty and a desperate cost of living crisis.
"At the same time we are asked to accept falling wages, job insecurity and desperately underfunded services.
"Other dirty energy sources, such as wood burning, are trashing vital forests across the world, causing serious health problems for communities living near processing plants, and draining our pockets yet more as we are forced to subsidise their killer operations.
"Government policies both in the UK and globally are causing devastation. Working people, people of colour, those who don't receive a wage and those with the greatest caring responsibilities in their homes or in their communities, are those who have contributed the least to the problem. Yet it is they who are now paying the price with killer famines, floods, crop failures, fires and rising poverty."
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