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Wellington Arch paint sprayers given suspended sentences
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

Gatwick Airport 8 acquitted after Judge rules insufficient evidence of serious disruption
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

How to live in inevitable climate collapse.
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.

Wellington Arch paint sprayers given suspended sentences
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

Gatwick Airport 8 acquitted after Judge rules insufficient evidence of serious disruption
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

How to live in inevitable climate collapse.
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.

Never waste a good crisis – a realist’s view of the Hay Festival
by Mel Carrington. Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from

Just Stop Oil t-shirts now made with organic hemp after pressure from tabloid media
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)

Just Stop Oil supporter sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work for spraying UCL orange
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
Court & prison updates

Wellington Arch paint sprayers given suspended sentences
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

Gatwick Airport 8 acquitted after Judge rules insufficient evidence of serious disruption
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

Just Stop Oil supporter sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work for spraying UCL orange
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

Manchester Airport four sentenced to prison
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

Heathrow Airport 9: Five supporters given jail terms of up to 15 months for an action that never happened
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

Phoebe Plummer and David Mann spared prison
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,

Wellington Arch paint sprayers given suspended sentences
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

Gatwick Airport 8 acquitted after Judge rules insufficient evidence of serious disruption
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

Just Stop Oil supporter sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work for spraying UCL orange
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
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Never waste a good crisis – a realist’s view of the Hay Festival
by Mel Carrington. Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from

Serving Time
Through the small window I see a sign: ‘Welcome To HMP Wandsworth’. If it’s meant to be reassuring it doesn’t work for me.

Writing from HMP Styal
My name’s Ella, I’m 22 years old, and I’m writing from HMP Styal, a women’s prison just outside Manchester.

Never waste a good crisis – a realist’s view of the Hay Festival
by Mel Carrington. Hats off to the Hay Festival for a range of sessions tackling the multiple and interlinked crises we face – everything from

Serving Time
Through the small window I see a sign: ‘Welcome To HMP Wandsworth’. If it’s meant to be reassuring it doesn’t work for me.

Writing from HMP Styal
My name’s Ella, I’m 22 years old, and I’m writing from HMP Styal, a women’s prison just outside Manchester.

A 22nd Birthday in prison
Hi, It’s Ella here, writing from HMP Styal, a women’s prison just outside of Manchester.

Letter from the President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative to Louise Lancaster in prison
Kumi Naidoo, the President of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty Initiative, has written to Just Stop Oil supporter Louise Lancaster in prison. She is

4.4 Billion Barrels Stopped
3,000+ arrests. 1000+ sent to trial. 100+ sent to prison. Time, money, and tears have been invested into our campaign of last ditch resistance against