🚨 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.

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πŸ’¬ Hazel Agombar, 53, a mother of three and charity worker from Winchester said:

β€œI'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.

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🦺 "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. "

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Oct 31
πŸŽƒ BREAKING: LONDON PAINTED ORANGE πŸŽƒ

🧯 At 8:30am today, 6 Just Stop Oil supporters sprayed orange paint from fire extinguishers onto the Home Office, the MI5 building, the Bank of England and the headquarters of News Corp at London Bridge.

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πŸ›’ They are demanding that the Government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences.

πŸ› The buildings were chosen to represent the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy β€” government, security, finance and media.
πŸ“£ A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said:

β€œWe are not prepared to stand by and watch while everything we love is destroyed, while vulnerable people go hungry and fossil fuel companies and the rich profit from our misery.
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Oct 29
🚨 BREAKING: FOUR KEY LONDON ROADS BLOCKED 🚨

🚧 At noon today, 61 Just Stop Oil supporters stopped traffic on Charing Cross Road, Kensington High Street, Kennington Road and Blackfriars Road, demanding that the Government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences.
🦺 Anna Berrill, a 20-year-old philosophy student from Leeds, said:

β€œI'm doing this because it breaks my heart to witness the tragedies that are happening and will keep coming because of our actions, and to live in a crumbling world and not do anything is unbearable.”
🦺 Helen Redfern, 57, a grandmother of four and social enterprise founder from Gateshead, said:

β€œI'm joining the Just Stop Oil campaign today because for me, taking nonviolent direct action seems to be the only option left to me.
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Oct 28
πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ 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.

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πŸš” Metropolitan Police have begun remanding supporters of Just Stop Oil in custody to immediately charge them for alleged obstruction of the highway.

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πŸ› 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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Oct 28
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Oct 28
🚨 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:

β€œThere'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.”

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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:

πŸ’¬ β€œI'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.

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πŸ’¬ β€œI'm in civil resistance because I believe people's health, & the health of our planet, is more important than the wealth of a few.”

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