Activists backing school strike
Roger Hallam
The 52-year-old is one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion. The veteran campaigner, who is researching a PhD in effective radical campaigning, went on hunger strike in 2017 to demand King’s College London stop investing in fossil fuels. He became interested in climate change in his 40s when an organic farm he ran in Wales went bankrupt because of extreme weather conditions.
Joe Corre
Son of Vivienne Westwood and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. The 51-year-old campaigner against climate change
and fracking, who founded lingerie company Agent Provocateur, once burnt an estimated £5million of punk memorabilia during a protest. Jake Woodier
The former turtle conservation ranger is the key frontman. A full-time ‘campaigner and activist’, Woodier, 26, pictured below, ran a vegan cafe in Somerset but now lives in Brighton.
Janine O’Keeffe
A veteran of helping organise school strikes in Sweden – where she is an academic in the economics department of Stockholm University – O’Keeffe said involving children generates powerful publicity. She has links with activists in Australia, Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands and brings her radical expertise to the British children’s movement. She says pupils should strike until 3pm before adults take over ‘and do civil disobedience... such as blocking the road’.
Robert Possnett
The ex-paratrooper, 57, is a vociferous supporter of Extinction Rebellion. The fanatical Remainer boasts that he is preparing to run a soup kitchen for the starving after Brexit.