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Sep 3, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read Read on X
7 #JustStopOil supporters are in prison

Emma Smart, continued to non-violently resist

The response she received from prison staff, has resulted in her requiring urgent medical attention. She is believed to have injuries to her face, head & wrist

#StandWithEmma #NewSuffragettes
All are peaceful in civil resistance to a government that is overseeing the destitution of 40% of UK households & expanding fossil fuel production. Protecting oil driven private profiteering and ignoring the physics

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Those jailed knew what they risked. They are not requesting your sympathy — they want you to join them in resisting a Government that is prepared to see the vulnerable mistreated and defend those who are burning away our rights, our freedoms, our security.
When our bodies are the only weapon we have, we will put them on the wheels of the machine.

#NoNewOil is the no-brainer first step to respond to the #CostOfLivingCrisis and the unfolding climate disaster

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Jul 18
🚨 BREAKING: THE WHOLE TRUTH FIVE IMPRISONED FOR 4-5 YEARS

⛓️ Lucia, Cressie, Louise and Daniel have received 4 year prison sentences today, whilst Roger has received 5 years.

➡️ Stop jailing those telling the truth. Sign the petition — actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-p…
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🚔 They were arrested after being on a zoom call discussing nonviolent civil resistance, which a Sun journalist infiltrated. Image
⚖️ At last week’s trial, Judge Hehir ruled that climate issues were ‘irrelevant and inadmissible’, dismissing them as mere ‘political opinion and belief’. Image
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Jul 11
🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY

⚖️ The judge has promised "long, long prison sentences". They are being remanded until sentencing next Thursday.

💀 This decision comes at the same time as @UKLabour @Ed_Miliband enacts Just Stop Oil's demand. Image
📝 The controversial case was witnessed by UN Rapporteur Michel Forst.

❌ The 5 were arrested 9 times and remanded 7 times during the trial, which had heavy reporting restrictions.

🇬🇧 @ForstMichel said: “The imposition of such sanction is not only appalling but may also violate the United Kingdom’s obligations under international law”.
⛓️ Many of the defendants have already spent time on remand for this charge, including Daniel Shaw who was imprisoned for 113 days.

🛢 This case is the first time a prosecutor has admitted that issuing new oil and gas licences “risks catastrophic and irreversible harm”, representing a “existential threat to humanity”

💸 Support people in prison by donating to our legal crowdfunder — chuffed.org/project/casp
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Feb 14
🦺 Cressie gave her defence statement to the jury today at Isleworth Crown Court, before @ChrisGPackham was called as a witness.

🧵 Thread of her statement.

📷 Photo credit: Denise Baker Image
On 20th July 2022, I climbed up onto a gantry over the M25. I hung up two banners – one said “Just Stop Oil” (the campaign in whose name I was taking action) and the other said “40 Degrees” (this was a day after the 40C heatwave scorched the UK, burnt down houses and left people dead).
The prosecution have said that my intention was clearly to stop the traffic. However, it is under oath that I say I was not expecting the police to close the entire motorway. I thought it was possible they may decide to close one or two lanes, or perhaps slow the speed of the traffic, but I was very surprised when they closed the whole thing. I was surprised because I was conducting a nonviolent, peaceful protest, the intention of which was to gain media attention and create public pressure on the government to stop new oil and gas.
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Nov 6, 2023
The Chairman of the @Conservatives is tweeting lies about protesters being glued to The Cenotaph.

The reality is that they were dragged off the road and arrested by police for protesting in the street, under legislation his corrupt party introduced.

Share and expose this lie.
@Conservatives They were marching, peacefully, along Whitehall to Parliament Square. But that's not stopped @LeeAndersonMP_ from quite literally politicising the Cenotaph and war dead. We are disgusted and appalled.
We need everyone to stand up to this madness. We are holding a public march on the 18th of November. All are welcome.

This was previously planned to be non-arrestable, but we can now no longer guarantee safety from arrest.

Please sign up to march at
🦺actionnetwork.org/forms/people-v…
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Oct 26, 2023
🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil begin actions on Monday, 30th Oct. This is our message to @metpoliceuk chief, Sir Mark Rowley:

Until you prosecute the criminals responsible for crimes against humanity and acts of genocide, Just Stop Oil supporters will remain in civil resistance.

The facts are clear. New oil and gas licensing in 2023 will kill hundreds of millions of people, adding to the already mounting global death toll from climate breakdown. To know these facts and still encourage drilling for UK new oil and gas is reckless and immoral.
The politicians planning to max out the UK’s oil and gas reserves are not directly seeking mass death—the primary aim of their support for fossil fuels is profit and power. To them, it’s an inconvenient side effect that millions and eventually billions of people will die.
Read 9 tweets
Jul 6, 2023
🚨 Just Stop Oil March On as Sunak Plans to Ditch Climate Pledges

🦺 At around 8am, 25 Just Stop Oil supporters began marching in four groups in Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Two marches converged on Tower Bridge, were issued a Section 12 notice and were off the road by 8:30am. https://t.co/rChqIECGjgtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
📃 The mini-march in Vauxhall was issued a Section 12 notice and was off the road by 8:10. A mini-march in the City of London started at 8:52 and was issued a Section 12 by 9:15, just before Blackfriars Bridge. Further marches are expected later this morning.
👎 Today’s marches were spurred on by the fact that the Government is signalling that it may fail to honour its commitments to essential climate funds. Commentators have said that @RishiSunak risks “shattering” the UK’s global standing by slipping out of its £11.6bn commitments.
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