STATEMENT: Just Stop Oil halts M25 actions

From today, Just Stop Oil will halt its campaign of civil resistance on the M25. We are giving time to those in Government who are in touch with reality to consider their responsibilities to this country at this time. (1/6)

#M25 #COP27
We ask that the Prime Minister consider his statement at COP27, where he spoke of the catastrophic threat posed by the ravages of global heating, the 33 million people displaced by floods in Pakistan, and the moral and economic imperative to honour our pledges. (2/6)

#M25 #COP27
You don't get to recycle words and promises — you owe it to the British people to act.

Today is Remembrance Day, we call on you to honour all those who served and loved their country. (3/6)

#M25 #COP27
Take the necessary first step to ensure a liveable future and halt new oil and gas. The UK Government’s failure to do so is a criminal dereliction of its fundamental duty — to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens, (4/6)

#M25 #COP27
and is an act of utter betrayal of billions of people living in the Global South. It is murder, plain and simple.

The supporters of Just Stop Oil are now the people upholding law and order and protecting civil society. Under British law, (5/6)

#M25 #COP27
people in this country have a right to cause disruption to prevent greater harm — we will not stand by.

Just Stop Oil (6/6)

#M25 #COP27

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Nov 10
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“We 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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“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.

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“I'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.”
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