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It comes as public frustration with the group, which has vowed to ‘paralyse London’ with slow-marching columns in a bid to force the government to scrap new domestic oil and gas licences, has started to boil over into violence. The JSO protesters then ask the group how long they are going to keep them there for, adding: “What’s your plan, because when you leave we’re going to go on the road again.” Footage shows the environmental protesters sitting on the floor, encircled by a group of 15 to 20 people standing around them while they try to explain why they are slow marching in the capital.
You need some kind of long-term strategy and I think most people in the environmental movement will agree that [if you’re] just disrupting things — what are you going to achieve?” The video was shot in Elephant and Castle, south London, by JSO. The organisation later said the counter-protesters dispersed at 9.40am, after a debate of about 30 minutes. Standing on Parliament Square, six activists made the announcement that they would begin to collect evidence against them to put in front of a court of law. We’ve even got them on camera saying ‘oh yeah being arrested is uncomfortable but it’s really empowering’. And it’s like, well, it shouldn’t be empowering. That’s not the point of being arrested.”
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A JSO spokesman said the encounter ended cordially, and that while the counter-protesters “didn’t understand the necessity in the mechanics of society for social disruption’, the two sides “were broadly in agreement”. They will argue that they never directly killed the millions who are already dying and will continue to die of starvation, floods, drought, wildfires and deadly heat." The achievements of JSO are questionable. Have they succeeded in garnering widespread media coverage? Yes. But in doing so they have lost support. Dr Oscar Berglund, a specialist in climate change activism at University of Bristol, says Just Stop Oil is not popular. “It is disliked by about 60 per cent of the population. The giant hypocrisy is that the new oil and gas projects that the government has in the pipeline will cause migration like we’ve never seen before. I’m taking action with Just Stop Oil today to call on the UK government to listen to the United Nations, the International Energy Agency and thousands of scientists over an opaque think-tank funded by fossil fuel money. We must do better.”
It comes after Just Stop Oil compared oil and gas giants to the Nazis as they announced legal action against executives who are ‘facilitating genocide’.The funniest thing about that sketch was the fact that they ‘raised the alarm’,” says Heydon Prowse, the satirist best known for handing George Osborne a maths GCSE textbook at a dinner at Mansion House, and convincing Jeremy Corbyn, in a prank call in 2017, that he was Stormzy and they should make a grime video together.
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