It is enough to stop the oil to put an end to the disruptive protests with the date of the final event announced
Group of environmental campaigns Just stop the oil announced that it will cease a disruptive action, following a final protest in Square parliament April 26th.
The campaign group revealed that it would be “the end of the soup on Van Goghs, the corn starch on Stonehenge and the lens marches on the streets” while the group plans to “hump the hi vis” and stop direct action.
Just stop the oil The initial question was to end new oil and gas, which is now a government policy. The campaign group said she had maintained more than 4.4 billion oil barrels illegal and the courts have ruled illegal new oil and gas licenses.
Even if he will no longer take direct actions, he will continue to speak in court for what he calls “political prisoners“And call the anti-professional laws in the United Kingdom.
The announcement comes after new laws have made it more difficult to perform disruptive protests.
In particular, new crimes of interference with the main national infrastructures, including “blocking” and a revision of the law on the cause of a public discomfort, have seen climatic activists given to long terms of prison.
“This is not the end of civil resistance. Governments from all over the world are withdrawing from doing what is necessary to protect us from the consequences of the combustion of uncontrolled fossil fuels.
Just stop Oil said in a declaration: “While we head around the 2C of global warming by the 1930s, science is clear: billions of people will have to move or die and the global economy will collapse. This is inevitable. We have been betrayed by a morally failed political class.”
Environmentalists said they had to adopt a different approach and are creating a new strategy that is not a direct action.
The group added: “While the companies and the billionaires corrupt political systems all over the world, we need a different approach. We are creating a new strategy, to face this reality and to bring our responsibilities right now. Little by less than a revolution will protect us from the next storms.”
Over the past three years, it is enough to stop the oil activists have been arrested for numerous direct action protests, including the interruption of a performance by the West End of the storm, blocking the roads, pouring paint on a robot in a Tesla store and spraying orange dust on Stonehenge.
Will McCallum, co -esuctive director of Greenpeace UK, said: “Just stop oil has paid a heavy price to raise his voice at a time when politicians and companies are trying to silence the peaceful demonstrators – in the streets and in the courts.
“We must not allow our right to protest for the protest of being removed, because it is the right on which all other rights depend on. Greenpeace and many others will continue to defend this proud tradition of acting on issues that count to make change possible.”
