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Climate breakdown and genocide in Gaza show Politics is Broken

A coalition of groups including Just Stop Oil, Youth Demand and Assemble are joining the National Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s march in central London this Saturday to tell Labour they must protect the people and stop arming Israel. [1] The Politics is Broken bloc has recruited thousands of people from the climate and nature, inequality and […]

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“Our government is pouring salt on Gandhi’s legacy”- Gandhi statue receives Just Stop Oil treatment

Just Stop Oil supporters have covered Parliament Square’s Gandhi Statue in salt, and dressed the figure in a high-vis shawl. Just Stop Oil is demanding that the UK government work with others to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030. [1] At 9:30 am today, two Just Stop Oil supporters

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Two Just Stop Oil supporters taking on Big Oil must wait for judgement day 

The hearing to finalise Shell’s anti-protest injunctions against 13 Just Stop Oil supporters and persons unknown has concluded. Judgement will be given at a later date, but lawyers acting for Shell have said that the company will not be seeking costs for anyone named on the injunction owing to the substantive submissions made in court.

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Just Stop Oil vs Shell – two supporters are taking on the might of Big Oil

Today, at the High Court, two Just Stop Oil supporters are directly challenging Shell ‘s anti-protest injunctions, while 13 are refusing to sign undertakings not to take action at oil terminals, petrol stations and Shell’s HQ in future.[1] The hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice is before Mr Justice Dexter Dias. It relates to

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Health workers stand in solidarity with young people imprisoned for throwing soup

Three health workers unfurled a huge banner in front of the Van Gogh sunflower paintings today to demand the release of Phoebe and Anna, the young Just Stop Oil supporters recently imprisoned for throwing soup on one of the paintings in 2022. [1].  The three medical professionals, Mary Light, Karen Rock and Dr Alice Clack

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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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