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.
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.
π’ 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.
πββοΈ Earlier today, two supporters of Just Stop Oil scaled a van each outside Downing Street, demanding that the Government ends new oil and gas.
π’ 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.
π We need an emergency response from the Government to get us off oil and gas. This is the moment to come together and resist β 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.
π€ 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
π 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?
π¨ BREAKING: WESTMINSTER DECLARED SITE OF CIVIL RESISTANCE π¨
The βWe All Want To Just Stop Oilβ Coalition has brought Central London to a standstill by blocking four key bridges to Westminster β Waterloo, Westminster, Lambeth and Vauxhall.
Today, as our criminal Government refuses to address the rising energy prices, millions of families across the UK are plunged into fuel poverty, while fossil fuel companies continue to rake in billions in profits.
Today is the day we say #EnoughIsEnough. Join the βWe All Want To Just Stop Oilβ Coalition β Jeremy Corbynβs Peace and Justice Project, Fuel Poverty Action, Insulate Britain, CND and others β on the streets of Westminster in Civil Resistance. Together we can #JustStopOil.
Join Jeremy Corbyn, Ruth London (Fuel Poverty Action), Lee Jasper (Blaksox), Zita Holbourne (Black Activists Rising Against Cuts), Lindsey German (Stop The War), Paula Peters (Disabled People Against Cuts), (cont..)