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Open letter- Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand tell National Museum Directors’ Council: “Let’s meet!”

Dear NMDC,  Thank you for your open letter regarding the public interventions in gallery spaces these past few years, and for recognising that the world is in a very dark place. We represent Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand, whose supporters have taken action at the National Gallery and are taking to the streets on

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57 varieties of resistance: two paintings souped as Just Stop Oil supporters sentenced

Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery in London in a sign of defiance after the original soup throwers, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were imprisoned for up to two years at Southwark Crown Court today. Just Stop Oil is demanding that governments

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Sent down for throwing soup? Judge Hehir turns state repression into an art form 

Two Just Stop Oil supporters who threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 2 years by Judge Christopher Hehir at Southwark Crown Court today. [1] Phoebe Plummer was jailed for 2 years for the soup throwing plus 3 months for a S7 offence, while Anna Holland

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World Snooker Championships Disruptors Sentenced

Two Just Stop Oil supporters, Margaret Reid and Eddie Whittingham, were sentenced today at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court following their conviction for disrupting the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre last April. They interrupted the championship to call on the government to stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and to encourage UK sporting institutions

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Just Stop Oil’s Rugby disruptors found ‘Not Guilty’ by Crown Court jury

Two Just Stop Oil supporters who disrupted the Gallagher Premiership Rugby final in May 2023 were acquitted today at Kingston Crown Court. The unanimous 11-member jury found Samuel Johnson and Dr. Patrick Hart not guilty of the charge of criminal damage exceeding £5,000. [1] On 27th May 2023, the two supporters stormed the pitch in

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