AIG Women’s Open disrupted by protesters

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Money Rebellion protesters disrupted the ultimate spherical of the AIG Women’s Open on Sunday within the UK, concentrating on the match’s sponsor.

Setting off flares and holding up “AIG is a climate criminal” and “AIG stop insuring climate crisis” banners, members of Money Rebellion performed the protest on the seventeenth inexperienced at Walton Heath earlier than being apprehended by the police.

“AIG is insuring climate breakdown by enabling deadly fossil fuel projects to pump out more and more greenhouse gasses,” Money Rebellion’s Jane Clarke stated in an emailed launch. “AIG is aware of the science and is glad to guard its income by reducing off insurance coverage for owners dealing with floods and fires, attributable to local weather change.

“The executives making these decisions are climate criminals. Instead of sponsoring golf events to clean their image, they must stop insuring all new fossil fuel projects now.”

Meanwhile Charley Hull, who misplaced to Lilia Vu, reportedly known as the protesters “a bunch of idiots” following the disruption. 

The Telegraph quoted Hull as saying: “I suffer from asthma but didn’t have my inhaler on me, and that stuff was really thick, so, no, it was not nice. I wasn’t scared when it happened, just thought they were idiots. Someone said they are protesting about oil, but how did they get here today? Drove probably.”

A sister motion to Extinction Rebellion, Money Rebellion stated AIG is among the world’s main insurers of oil & fuel tasks and has refused to rule out help for the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

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