UPDATE 16/11/2018: Extinction Rebellion have dropped a banner from the railway bridge over Rowcroft.

They have also been gathering at Wallbridge Green, where there is currently a protest car and tent.

Speaking to the SNJ, the activists say they are gearing up for a day of marches and civil disobedience tomorrow, both in Stroud and London. 

The activist who owns the car, Piers, said: "Brexit is a distraction - the UN says we have only twelve years left to do something about climate change and the government is ignoring it."

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: The same activists who blocked a road in Stroud were arrested in London yesterday for another climate protest.

Blythe Pepino, 32, from Stroud, was dragged off by police when she joined fellow eco-activists outside Downing Street.

They blocked the entrance holding empty food containers, graffitied buildings and some glued themselves to the gate.

Stroud News and Journal:

Eco-activists outside Downing Street

Blythe herself was arrested for spray chalking outside Downing Street. 

Their group - Extinction Rebellion - are the same activists who blocked the road at Merrywalks last month, disrupting traffic in the hope that civil disobedience will force action on tackling climate change.

Stroud News and Journal:

Blythe being taken away from the protest by police

"I made the decision to put myself forward for arrest over time," she says in video released by the group after the protest in which she explains she is reluctant to have children in light of climate change.

"That's the way I think I can principally affect change in this life in the best way." 

Police arrested 27 of the activists yesterday - the BBC has reported Stroud district councillor Skeena Rathor and her daughter were also arrested, but Extinction Rebellion has denied this to the SNJ.

In a Tweet from the group, cllr Rathor said: "We are on the threshold of social and climate collapse.

"We about to lose our freedoms and so we offer ourselves for arrest for our children."