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🚨 BREAKING: SOUTH LONDON SLOW DOWN

⏰ At 8am, 15 Just Stop Oil supporters walked onto the road at Bricklayers Arms roundabout in South London demanding the government halt all new oil and gas licences.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
Sam Griffiths, 47, a Dad and designer from London said:

"I feel sick seeing how little is happening to address climate breakdown, the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. And our Government is actively making things worse. Granting over 100 new oil licences is indefensible"
💬 "I started actively supporting Just Stop Oil after we had 40°C in the UK for the first time in recorded history. It scared the shit out of me. I looked at my boy and realised I couldn't just continue to do nothing."

Sign up for direct action at bit.ly/JSOaction2
#COP27
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♻️ JUST STOP OIL GIVE MET POLICE THE RUN-AROUND

🦺 Yesterday, 13 #JustStopOil supporters were accompanied by at least 17 @metpoliceuk officers on a slow stroll through London. 30 strong, the odd pairing marched along the Strand to demand an end to all new oil and gas in the UK.
🚓 The Met even turned up with five patrol vans and proceeded to slowly drive the convoy behind the Just Stop Oil supporters along the entire route of the march, causing traffic delays.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil

🍻 A group of Just Stop Oil supporters then arrived at a Leicester Sq Spoons to celebrate a birthday — the officers posted up on the opposite side of the road to keep watch, reportedly ignoring calls to join in for a “cheeky one on the clock” from the Just Stop Oil supporters.
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🔒 JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTER SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS IN PRISON

🦺 Jan Goodey, a 57-year-old #JustStopOil supporter from Brighton, was today sentenced to 6 months in prison for taking part in an action on the #M25 in November to demand an end to new oil and gas in the UK.

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🛣️ Jan was arrested after climbing a gantry at Junction 16 on November 7th — he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today and was found guilty of causing a public nuisance. This was the first trial under this new statutory offence enacted under the PCSC Act 2022.
⚖️ The magistrate imposed a sentence of 9 months, which was reduced to 6 months as a result of a guilty plea. The magistrate spoke of wanting to use his sentencing as a “deterrent” against further disruption of ordinary people going about their “lawful business”

#CivilResistance
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🚨 BREAKING: SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PINT

🍺 Four #JustStopOil supporters stopped off for a drink at a pub today after around 80 police officers and 6 police vans followed them on a walk around London

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #COP27
💬 from a pub, Matt said: "The protest is over and the police are following us, it’s disproportionate and unnecessary.

"They followed us from one pub to another, what’s the point? They look exceptionally silly."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #UK #M25
Shaun, 25, said: "We've just come to the pub for someone’s birthday and they’ve got two officers standing directly in front of the pub.

'There were vans with their lights flashing, parked in a bus lane, with about ten or so officers watching us.

'Literally four of us at a pub"
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🚨 BREAKING: ROADS BLOCKED IN LONDON

At 8:00am, #JustStopOil supporters marched slowly onto the road at Shepherds Bush Green, demanding @RishiSunak halt all new oil and gas licences.

#CivilResistance #A22Network #COP27 #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #M25 #FreeLouis #FreeJosh
💬 Hannah Smith, 20, a student from London said:

“Why is the government refusing to listen? The people of this country have had enough, and we deserve better from our leaders. Don’t let them convince you that we can’t make change. When we move as a collective, we have power.”
🚧 ROADS IN ALDWYCH NOW BLOCKED

We are Just Stop Oil.
We are demanding.
That the British government.
Immediately halts.
All new oil and gas licences and consents.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #London #UK #Government #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience #COP27
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🚨 Hunger striking Just Stop Oil supporter remains in hospital wing:

🏥 A Just Stop Oil supporter who went on hunger strike to demand that the Govt end new oil & gas has been unexpectedly moved to the hospital wing as prison staff became increasingly concerned for their health.
🛣 Tez Burns (they/them), a 34-year-old bicycle mechanic from Swansea, was remanded to Bronzefield prison on Friday 11 November after being arrested for taking part in the actions to disrupt the #M25 motorway by climbing on the overhead gantries.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh
🦺 They started an immediate hunger strike, which resulted in rapid weight loss and low blood sugar levels.

🔒 Tez was among a total of 65 people arrested as a result of the four consecutive days of actions by Just Stop Oil on the M25 last week…
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Louis McKechnie was imprisoned awaiting trial on July 5th for taking non-violent action in support of Just Stop Oil. His case is expected to be heard in February 2023.

Today is is 22nd birthday. 🧡💪

#FreeLouis #A22Network #COP27 #ClimateChange #M25
juststopoil.org/2022/11/17/a-b… Image
"Sitting in HMP Peterborough on my 22nd birthday, I’d like to reflect on the year gone by. On my last birthday I was sent to HMP Thameside for my role in the Insulate Britain campaign. A lot has changed since then: the cost of living crisis and climate crisis have gotten worse...
...and government inaction is costing more lives by the day. More citizens than I can count have been imprisoned for resisting these “leaders” and COP27 has somehow achieved even less than COP26 last year.
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🛣 BREAKING: M25 BLOCKED FOR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE DAY 🛣

🚧 From 6:30 this morning, supporters of Just Stop Oil climbed onto the overhead gantries of the M25 at multiple locations, demanding that the Govt immediately end all new oil and gas.

#M25 #COP27 #COP27Egypt #A22Network
🐄 They have been joined by supporters of Animal Rebellion.

🥫 Phoebie Plummer, a 21-year-old student from London said:

“As a young person, the only future I see before me is one of mass famine, severe droughts, wildfires, floods and societal collapse.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh
“I understand people must be frustrated with us, and rightly so, but we have to disrupt daily life because we are hurtling towards climate catastrophe, yet the Government continues to betray me, my generation and people in the Global South by issuing new oil licenses.”
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As Egypt hosts #COP27 let’s not forget the estimated 60,000 political prisoners held there.

We join the calls to release Alaa Abd El Fattah who is on hunger strike right now. #FreeAlaa

We also want to shine a light on some of those in prison here in the UK in this thread:🧵 Image
While the eyes of the world are on #cop27egypt it's crucial to pressure their Government on their human rights record and for political prisoners release.

Reports of human rights abuses range from harassing activists & journalists to torturing prisoners:
theintercept.com/2022/10/07/egy…
But many of the delegations arriving in Sharm el-Sheikh today are also increasing repression of protest. Often in direct response to nonviolent climate movements.

Some speaking at #COP27 this week, are silencing calls for #ClimateAction at home.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL BLOCKS COMMERCIAL STREET 🚨

🚧 From 12.15pm today, 15 Just Stop Oil supporters have blocked Commerical Street by Spitalfields Market in London. They are demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas licences.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #A22Network
💬 Hazel Agombar, 53, a mother of three and charity worker from Winchester said:

“I've spent 15 years ""soft"" campaigning on the climate crisis. I've got to the point now where I feel driven to take direct action.

#CivilResistance #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #UK
🦺 "I would never have believed that I - a quiet middle age woman - would find myself preparing for action that will likely lead to my arrest. But the time has arrived. The situation is so serious. "

#OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis
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🧑‍⚖️ Earlier today, supporters of Just Stop Oil marched from Downing St to Westminster Magistrates’ Court and stood in solidarity with fellow supporters who had plea hearings there today.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough Image
🚔 Metropolitan Police have begun remanding supporters of Just Stop Oil in custody to immediately charge them for alleged obstruction of the highway.

#OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #UK #Government #FossilFuels
🏛 We will not be intimidated by changes to the law and we will not be stopped by private injunctions sought to silence peaceful people. We understand that these are irrelevant when set against the collapse of society as we know it.

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🚨 BREAKING: ROLEX STORE SPRAY-PAINTED ORANGE 🚨

⌚️ At 8:30am today, two Just Stop Oil supporters sprayed orange paint from a fire extinguisher over the premises of @ROLEX in Knightsbridge, demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences. #FreeLouis
⏳ Jennifer Kowalski, 26, an environmental scientist from Glasgow, said:

“There's no point in having jewel-encrusted watches when they're destined to be lost in floods and climate change is happening now. An energy crisis is happening now."

#FreeJosh #JustStopOil #A22Network
"We do this because we want to protect the things and the people we care about. I'm not willing to stand by as the refusal to improve life for everyday people causes my loved ones to suffer.”

#CivilResistance #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
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🚨 BREAKING: 31 BLOCK ROADS AT MANSION HOUSE

🚧 At 9am, 31 Just Stop Oil supporters disrupted traffic on Cannon St, Queen Victoria St and Garlick Hill near Mansion House tube station, demanding that the Govt halts all new oil and gas consents and licenses.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh
🦺 Tommy Burnett, a 30-year-old taxi driver from Kendal, said:

💬 “I'm taking action because the status quo needs to change; we cannot continue using fossil fuels when we know it is causing increasingly severe weather and making areas of the world uninhabitable.

#A22Network
💬 “I'm in civil resistance because I believe people's health, & the health of our planet, is more important than the wealth of a few.”

#CivilResistance #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis
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🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL BLOCKS PICCADILLY

🚧 Starting at midday today, 16 Just Stop Oil supporters have blocked Piccadilly, London. They are demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas licences.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #ClimateEmergency Image
💬 Dr Louis Keal, 32, a physicist from Edinburgh said:

“The public sees the critical need for immediate downscaling of fossil fuels, so does the UN, the International Energy Agency, and countless businesses and scientific institutions."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
🛢 "But the dangerous radicals in government are determined to continue making fossil fuel companies richer at the expense of the rest of us. We have no choice but to resist, to put our bodies on the line. We are ordinary people who have run out of options.”
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🧡 BREAKING: LUXURY CAR DEALERSHIPS PAINTED ORANGE

🚗 At 8:30am today, two Just Stop Oil supporters sprayed orange paint over several luxury car dealers on Berkeley Sq and Bruton St, including HR Owen Bugatti, Jack Barclay Bentley, Bentley Motor Cars London and Ferrari Mayfair
🛢 They are demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences. Oil is causing the climate and cost of living crisis, making us poorer, destroying jobs and killing us now. New oil and gas is an act of genocide.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #A22Network Image
💬 Carmen Lean, a 28-year-old architecture student from Glasgow, said:

“We pay exorbitant bills for oil and gas but it’s nothing compared to the price our kids will pay for it. New oil and gas is a death sentence for people all around the world.

#CivilResistance #JustStopOil Image
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🎨 BREAKING: LORA JOHNSON THROWS PAINT ON MET POLICE HQ 🎨

⚖️ New oil and gas will lead to crop failure, food shortages and the collapse of law and order. Human civilisation as we know it is on the verge of collapse.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance
⛓ There are currently 5 Just Stop Oil supporters in prison on remand or serving sentences for taking action to demand that the Government halts new oil and gas licences. They are Simon Milner-Edwards, Margaret Reid, Michelle Charlesworth, Joshua Smith and Louis McKechnie.
✊ Also in prison are Madelaine Budd for the ‘Captain Tom’ action, Scott Breen for taking action against the Southampton to Heathrow pipeline, and Elliott Cuciurean for taking action against HS2.

#A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
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🥫 JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS CHOOSE LIFE OVER ART 🥫

🎨 Human creativity and brilliance is on show in this gallery, yet our heritage is being destroyed by our Government’s failure to act on the climate and cost of living crisis.

#VanGogh #FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance
🛢 The 100 proposed oil and gas licences will destroy all of our culture, along with human civilisation as we know it.

💀 Why are we protecting these paintings when we are not protecting the millions of lives that will be lost due to climate and societal collapse?

#A22Network
🦺 This is the moment to come together and resist. We are not prepared to watch while the Government plans for countless millions to die and destroys everything we love.

#JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis
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🚔 ONLOOKER DETAINED FOR VERBALLY SUPPORTING JUST STOP OIL 🚔

⛓ An unassuming member of the public was detained, stopped & searched by the Metropolitan Police for saying “well done” to supporters of Just Stop Oil blocking a road.

@netpol

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance
🌽 Crop failure & food shortages caused by the climate crisis will lead to the collapse of law and order in Britain & around the world.

🥔 Potato yields in Britain are down significantly this season due to the hot, dry spring & early summer weather.

#A22Network #JustStopOil
🍞 If the Government doesn’t end new oil & gas, soon enough, we’ll be fighting for bread in the bakery aisle of Morrisons.

👮 British police are complicit in the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced — refuse to arrest Just Stop Oil supporters in peaceful Civil Resistance now.
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🚔 20 ARRESTED AT ST. GEORGE’S CIRCUS 🚔

💀 Ordinary people are stepping up into Civil Resistance because it is our only chance at preventing the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil
🛢 Fossil fuels are pushing British families into poverty and causing famines around the world today. 33 million have been displaced due to the floods in Pakistan — this is just the start of it.

🔥 We stand to lose everything we’ve got, so we’re giving it everything we’ve got.
📍 Meet at 11am outside Downing St every day of October to Occupy Westminster.

📝 Sign up for direct action at bit.ly/JSOaction

🌡 Attend an introductory talk at bit.ly/JSOevents

💷 Donate at bit.ly/JSOdonate

#EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster
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🎉 SURPRISE, WE’RE AT IT AGAIN THIS MORNING

🏛 Yesterday, Susan Hall, chairman of the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee told the Telegraph:

“The silent majority are sick to the back teeth of having their lives disrupted by the gridlock that these demonstrations cause.
“It makes no sense to me at all that the police are not able to remove these people.”

💀 Well, Susan, ordinary people are sick to the back teeth of having to accept that their children won’t have liveable future.

#JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster
🛢 It makes no sense to anyone at all that the Government is pushing through new fossil fuel licenses, when 77% of the UK public want the Government to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #UK #Government
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🚓 WE’LL STOP WHEN THEY STOP 🚓

🏃‍♂️ Earlier today, two supporters of Just Stop Oil scaled a van each outside Downing Street, demanding that the Government ends new oil and gas.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
🛢 Ordinary people are stepping up into Civil Resistance because it is our only chance at preventing the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. Oil is causing the climate and cost of living crisis, making us poorer and killing us now. New oil and gas is an act of genocide.
🛠 We need an emergency response from the Government to get us off oil and gas. This is the moment to come together and resist — we will not stand by and watch while millions go hungry and everything we love is lost. We will stop when the Government agrees to end new oil and gas.
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🤝 Earlier today, supporters of Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain came together to demand an emergency response to the climate and cost of living crisis by blocking roads outside Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament

📷 Pictured: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 80

#CivilResistance Image
🕊 Democracy is a precious & essential part of our society. Our leadership must always be accountable to the people, & if they are not, we risk oppression. We are, without a doubt, lucky to live in a liberal representational democracy, & when the time comes to vote, we should.
So why then, are people acting politically, with Civil Resistance, outside of this mechanism?

Read here: juststopoil.org/2022/10/06/to-…

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
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🚨 BREAKING: Arrests taking outside Buckingham Palace 🚨

Metropolitan Police officers have begun arresting 30 ordinary people currently peacefully blocking the Mall.

#FreeLouis #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
These actions take place as the UK launches its first oil and gas licensing round since 2019 on Friday, aiming to award more than 100 licenses to ramp up domestic oil and gas production and destroy the lives of every future generation.

#OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis
The disruption will end when the Government makes a statement that it will halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Meet at 11 am outside Downing St. every day of October to Occupy Westminster.
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🚨 BREAKING: Civil Resistance at HMP Altcourse as Just Stop Oil supporter faces more than 6 months in prison without trial

A coalition of groups gathered outside HMP Altcourse in Liverpool this afternoon to show support for prisoners being held unjustly in UK prisons

#FreeLouis
The demonstration was called in reaction to news yesterday that Louis McKechnie, 21, who invaded the Formula 1 racetrack at Silverstone on July 3rd, was refused bail yesterday and has been ordered to remain in prison until his trial some time in 2023.

#FreeLouis
He has already been in prison without trial for 90 days.

Two supporters — Hannah Bright, 20, a sculpture student from Glasgow, and Orla Murphy, 21, a campaigner from Cork — threw black paint on the walls of HMP Altcourse in an act of nonviolent Civil Resistance.

#FreeLouis
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