🧯 LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted the Pride in London parade, blocking Coca-Cola's float and spraying black and pink paint over the road.
🛢 LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil met with the organisers of Pride in London, demanding they make a statement condemning new oil and gas licences.
🦺 Pride in London have failed to do this, so we have taken action.
💀 Who do you think will be the first to suffer the consequences of societal collapse? It will be marginalised communities, such as the LGBTQ+ community.
⛓️ Pride have a responsibility to take action to protect their community, and they are failing.
🏳️🌈 Pride is a protest. But Pride in London allows destructive industries such as Coca-Cola, who are the world's biggest plastic polluter and who have been accused of numerous human rights abuses, to co-opt it and pinkwash themselves.
🛢 The LGBTQ+ supporters of Just Stop Oil have taken action against Pride in London today, because the organisation is working with industries complicit in worsening the climate crisis.
👉 Pride in London has failed to address and take responsibility for these relationships.
🛢 New oil and gas is a death sentence for millions of people, and the LGBTQ+ community will be one of the first to suffer.
🚷 Take action with us at https://t.co/KMXp96io4kjuststopoil.org
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✊🌍 Students Against EACOP x Just Stop Oil Youth: THURS 11th MAY @ 7PM
ONLINE TALK: Hear from those in civil resistance in Uganda, who are working to stop the construction of the world's longest crude oil pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania.
Construction of the pipeline has already displaced over 10,000 people, devastating the local communities it runs through. And that's before we start on the catastrophic carbon impacts of the project.
These activists are in civil resistance in a dictatorship, and some members have even been tortured for their actions. But their drive is unfaltering and they are coming back stronger than ever this summer.
🚨 BREAKING: BRITISH GOVERNMENT CRACK DOWN ON PEACEFUL PROTEST—23 ARRESTED AT PARLIAMENT SQUARE
⛓️ Today, the fundamental right to express dissent has been taken away from the British people. The Home Secretary has bypassed the democratic process to grant police the power to not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🏛️ Democracy is broken. Ordinary people are still struggling to pay their energy bills, oil companies are still making billions in profits and the criminals in government are continuing to enact policies that will consign millions of people to death. We can change this. We must… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🦺 The British people will not stand by while this illegitimate government eradicates every hard-won right we have. As today’s arrests have shown, when all legal avenues for dissent have been banned, we will continue to march. What else is there for us to do when we face the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🚨 BREAKING: 55 PEOPLE MARCH DOWN ROAD, IMMEDIATELY SLAPPED WITH SECTION 12 NOTICE
🦺 At 10:00am, 55 Just Stop Oil supporters began marching from the Shell Centre to Parliament Sq. 15 minutes later, a Section 12 public order notice was issued, ordering protesters off the road.
⚖️ These supporters are marching in accordance with fundamental human rights that are protected under international law. Last week, the Government laid before Parliament the third piece of legislation in two years which aims to restrict protest.
🏛️ The public order regulations will reintroduce amendments that were voted out of the Public Order Act by the House of Lords. This will redefine ‘serious disruption’ to mean anything that is ‘more than minor hindrance’ to daily activities.
Can't believe she'd park there.
Oh also, climate catastrophe is imminent.
Confused as to why the Daily Mail would put this on page 19?
It's owned by a billionaire called Jonathan Harmsworth, aka Lord Rothermere, whose great-grandfather founded it and was pals with Adolf Hitler and other fascists.
He is a 'non-domicile' – meaning he avoids paying his fair share of tax in the UK. And his paper has a long track record of spreading lies and misinformation on the climate crisis.
Even as people died from 40°C heat last summer, his paper tried to play it down as a sunny day.
🧡 19 people are appearing in court today to face charges associated with #M25 and art actions as the group continues to demand that the government halts all new oil and gas licences and consents.
Amy-Rose, 20, from Bromley, appearing at South Crown Court today said:
“If you feel outraged by the actions of Just Stop Oil supporters, ask yourself how things have got to this point? Imagine how you would feel if it was your son or daughter locked away for doing what's right”
⚖️ Hannah Hunt, 23 and Eben Lazarus, 22, both from Brighton are at Westminster Magistrates Court to face trial.
🖼 They glued onto the frame of Constable’s Hay Wain at the National Gallery in London after covering it with a reimagined version in support of Just Stop Oil.