Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April Just Stop Oil will be hanging up the hi vis.
Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making it one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history.
It has helped to keep over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful.
Just Stop Oil has helped to expose the corruption at the heart of our legal system which, it says, ‘protects those causing death and destruction while prosecuting those seeking to minimise harm’.
Just Stop Oil has assured supporters that it will continue to tell the truth in the courts, speak out for our political prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws.
This move does signal the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison.
It continues to rely on small donations from the public to make this happen.
Governments everywhere are retreating from doing what is needed to protect us from the consequences of unchecked fossil fuel burning.
As we head towards 2°C of global heating by the 2030s, the science is clear: billions of people will have to move or die and the global economy is going to collapse. ‘This is unavoidable’, warns Just Stop Oil. ‘We have been betrayed by a morally bankrupt political class.’
‘As corporations and billionaires corrupt political systems across the world, we need a different approach.
‘We are creating a new strategy, to face this reality and to carry our responsibilities at this time. Nothing short of a revolution is going to protect us from the coming storms.
‘We are calling on everyone who wants to be a part of building the new resistance to join us for the final Just Stop Oil action in Parliament Square on 26 April. Sign up here. See you on the streets.’
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During its three-year history, Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested 3,300 times and imprisoned 180 times, for having broken laws that were drafted by the fossil fuel industry.
Seven people are now in prison serving sentences of up to four years and eight are on remand.
16 Just Stop Oil supporters are due to be sentenced in the next few months.
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