Three Just Stop Oil supporters have been handed nine-month custodial sentences, suspended for 21 months, and ordered to pay £1,000 each in compensation for spraying orange paint on the Wellington Arch in October 2023. The action was taken to demand that the UK government immediately halt all new oil and gas projects, a demand that […]
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Eight Just Stop Oil supporters were acquitted by District Judge Amanda Kelly at Horsham Magistrates Court today in the last trial related to the 2024 airports campaign. The group had taken action at Gatwick Airport to demand a fossil fuel treaty to end oil, gas and coal by 2030. [1] The eight supporters were arrested
I want to be proud of every day I live. I want to fight for every inch of land. I might lose in the end, but goddamn it, I’ll have given it a good go, and I’ll have had a good time doing it.
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by Mel Carrington. Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from toxic masculinity to misinformation, inequality, extremist ideologies and the big daddy of them all, the climate emergency. No shortage of crises for the authors to diagnose. However, when it comes
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Direct action group Just Stop Oil have immediately ended all sales of new cotton campaign t-shirts and have partnered with The Hemp Trading Company (THTC) to produce organic hemp t-shirts instead. THTC has been producing sustainable grown organic hemp clothing since 1999, and is currently ranked the UK’s joint most ethical clothing company by Ethical
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A Just Stop Oil supporter was given a community order today after being found guilty of spraying a university building to demand an end to new oil and gas licences. [1] Arthur Clifton, 23, was found guilty of causing criminal damage over £5,000 at Southwark Crown Court in April, following a 4 day jury trial
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Four Just Stop Oil supporters have been sentenced to prison in relation to an attempted action at Manchester Airport in August 2024. The four took action as part of the ‘Oil Kills’ international uprising, which occurred across 31 airports around the world, in order to demand a fossil fuel treaty to end the extraction and
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Five Just Stop Oil supporters were today given jail terms of up to 15 months, while the remaining four were given suspended sentences for an action at Heathrow Airport that never happened. The group planned action to demand a fossil fuel treaty to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
Two Just Stop Oil supporters have been sentenced today in connection with plans to disrupt the M25. These actions were carried out in November 2022, with a view to demanding an end to all new oil and gas projects. This demand was subsequently won and has now become government policy. [1] Phoebe Plummer and David
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Two Just Stop Oil supporters who climbed gantries over the M25 in 2022 were handed suspended sentences at Southwark Crown Court today. They took action to demand an end to all new oil and gas projects, a demand which has now become government policy. [1] Amy Rose Friel-O’Donnell, 22, and another supporter were sentenced to
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