>#Just Stop Oil wants day of action that brings London to a halt
>David Brown
>Monday May 01 2023, 12.01am BST, The Times
>Rishi Sunak has pledged action against “selfish saboteurs” who block traffic after it emerged that Just Stop Oil activists are training to bring London to a halt on a day of mass action.
>The prime minister said new laws will crack down on the activists who are causing disruption on an almost daily basis to prevent them ruining a “glorious summer of celebration”.
>“The public want us to put a stop to selfish saboteurs disrupting their lives — and so do I,” he told The Sun on Sunday. “They deserve to see law-abiding citizens protected against a minority trying to make their lives miserable.”
>He added: “The British people have a glorious summer of celebration ahead. Our history, music and sporting prowess will be on display, making us all proud to be British. With our new laws we’ll crack down on the minority for the majority.”
>Just Stop Oil, which has been disrupting traffic with slow marches in central London, said: “New oil and gas is not compatible with a summer of celebration.”
>A new law to prevent disruptive “slow marches” is being introduced by the government after an attempt to amend legislation was defeated by the House of Lords.
>Suella Braverman, the home secretary, complained last week that police were seen as “supporting militant protesters” by “giving them cups of tea or dancing along” with them at demonstrations.
>Just Stop Oil leaders are holding training sessions as they plot to bring London to a halt, according to an investigation by The Sun on Sunday.
>Recruits are given four hours’ training in Dalston, east London, at an office that has become known as a centre of activism and which is linked to other protest groups including Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Animal Rising.
>Judy Bruce, 83, a training leader, reportedly described how police “facilitate” their protests while the activists try to get as many people arrested as possible to overwhelm the officers.
>Rowan Tilly, 65, spoke about the suffragette movement and showed drawings of a woman hurling missiles in front of a policeman.
>“You’ve got suffragettes throwing rocks, breaking windows, using fire and arson and so on. The suffragettes won their cause,” she said. “Let yourself be seduced.”
>A leader identified only as Lance explained the importance of the slow marches and road sit-downs
>“Disruption is really, really important. We need a mass element of that,” he said. “When we get to the point that we have 1,000 marching every day — that’s what we should aim for.
>“One thousand every day. Fifty marches every day. So we can shut London down on one day. That is the level of disruption we’re aiming for.”
>Training included dealing with abuse from the public. Activists were split up, with one group pretending to be protesters as they marched around the room while the remainder sat on chairs pretending to be cars making engine noises.
>The “cars” then shouted insults at the marches such as “get a job”, “scumbag” and “get a life” as well as being told they had caused deaths.
>Just Stop Oil, which disrupted the world snooker championships in Sheffield last week, is crowdfunding for the protests. It is raising funds for activists’ legal fees, travel and banners.
>The £100,000 crowdfunder on Chuffed has received pledges of more than £15,000. The group states: “£1,000 can cover the costs of a young person going to court for resisting our genocidal government.”
>Just Stop Oil supporters marched from Parliament Square to the Home Office on Saturday to protest at the jailing of two activists for shutting Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames for 41 hours in October last year.
>Morgan Trowland, 40, was jailed last month for three years, and Marcus Decker, 34, for two years and seven months, for scaling the bridge that links the M25 between Essex and Kent.
>The group said in a statement: “We face policing at the whim of the home secretary, government by diktat and decree, and an increasingly hostile judiciary handing down disproportionately harsh sentences for peaceful protest.”
>It added: “The selfish saboteurs that the public need to be truly concerned about are those in government who have chosen to license over 100 new oil and gas projects, when they know that new fossil fuel projects are incompatible with human survival.
>“We cannot stand by and watch while our rights and freedoms and everything we love is being destroyed.The stakes could not be higher. We are calling on everyone to join us in civil resistance.”
>Since the start of its protests in April last year there have been more than 2,100 arrests and 138 people have spent time in prison, the group said.
>With our new laws we’ll crack down on the minority for the majority.
The Tory mentality in a single sentence.
I find these lot annoying idiots. They had our paper flyers whilst taking about sustainability. Everyone agrees with the core idea but they’re so belligerent they just annoy me.
Surely the economic case for sustainability must make sense at this stage anyway? As a Nation it makes us self sustaining and maybe even exporters of energy
We need to be reducing CO2 emissions as though we were at war with climate change.
> If “emissions do not come down drastically before 2030, then by 2040 some 3.9 billion people are likely to experience major heatwaves, 12 times more than the historic average.
> The probability of a synchronous, greater than 10 per cent crop failure across the top four maize producing countries, which together account for 87 per cent of exports, during the decade of the 2040s is just less than 50 per cent.
> Cascading climate impacts will likely cause higher mortality rates, drive political instability and greater national insecurity, and fuel regional and international conflict.
I hate to say it but they’re right. The UK government is not doing anywhere near enough to deal with the climate crisis, and handing out new fossil fuel production licences is morally abominable. Sunak’s talk of a “summer of celebration” is what should make people angry considering the severity of the climate (and cost of living) situation we’re in.
We need to move a war footing and unfortunately it’s JSO who are leading the way
It’s almost as if Just Stop Oil are just a bunch of young Tarquins and old boomers who are so far removed from every day folk, they don’t even qualify to be part of the London commuter class: they’re too high up even for that. Hence, they can afford to ‘stop’ London.
How about they stop the Coronation? Or the construction of Rishi’s leccy-guzzling private pool? Or all the private jet flights? Instead of stopping everyone just trying to get to work to pay their bills.
Let’s disrupt the one part of the country where public transport use is the highest as a proportion of journeys.
Not those who could walk half a mile instead of going driving children to and from school in an SUV, possibly in the morning over at least the European drink drive limit. As that might be our aunty, uncle or even mummy taking our younger sibling to school.
They protested snooker of all sports, which is when I lost all sympathy for their cause.
Ah yes. Please target London and bring it to a halt.
Because we know London is well known for its amazing, free-flowing traffic.
I saw them on Putney Bridge last week they did what they had to do. Glad I was walking to work lol
Oh ffs. I swear, they literally want it done instantly and don’t give a shit if it causes people to die in ambulances, get written up or sanctioned because of traffic delays, miss appointments etc.. Even Extinction Rebellion learnt to target the right things.
This would be the same protestors that follow an SUV driving, private jet flying millionaire?
If these people aren’t living in mud huts, eating nothing but grass and using zero electricity, then they are just hypocrites looking for their 15 mins of fame.
How does making the public think you are completely selfish butt holes achieve goals?
Just call it a Tuesday you don’t even have to show up just says it’s cuz of you.
Overall, the public expresses general disapproval of non-violent, disruptive protests to raise attention to the dangers of climate change. A plurality (46%) report that such efforts decrease their support for their cause.
However, these efforts have minimal effects on people’s perceptions of the dangers of climate change. Priming these efforts had no effect on people’s belief that human use of fossil fuels creates effects that endanger public health. Moreover, the framing of the actions appears to also have a small impact – respondents did not differentiate “damaging” and “pretending to damage” pieces of art in their appraisal of such actions.”
what they need to do is cuase havoc at big hqs and oil refinaries
Remember when we all used to get a surprise day of action before LEDs when a signal would go on the tube?
In this thread, I hope they are not actually oil shills. Still, acting like they will starve and are focusing on the wrong reason life is so hard. It’s due to insufficient shows of dissatisfaction!
I love how there is zero will in this country to tackle climate change, but plenty of will to stop any mention of climate change.
It’s almost as if noone really believes that climate change is real.
Don’t worry, everyone, if we keep doing capitalism it will magically stop causing all the problems it has been causing.
Cannot wait to see them dragged off trains again then.
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>#Just Stop Oil wants day of action that brings London to a halt
>David Brown
>Monday May 01 2023, 12.01am BST, The Times
>Rishi Sunak has pledged action against “selfish saboteurs” who block traffic after it emerged that Just Stop Oil activists are training to bring London to a halt on a day of mass action.
>The prime minister said new laws will crack down on the activists who are causing disruption on an almost daily basis to prevent them ruining a “glorious summer of celebration”.
>“The public want us to put a stop to selfish saboteurs disrupting their lives — and so do I,” he told The Sun on Sunday. “They deserve to see law-abiding citizens protected against a minority trying to make their lives miserable.”
>He added: “The British people have a glorious summer of celebration ahead. Our history, music and sporting prowess will be on display, making us all proud to be British. With our new laws we’ll crack down on the minority for the majority.”
>Just Stop Oil, which has been disrupting traffic with slow marches in central London, said: “New oil and gas is not compatible with a summer of celebration.”
>A new law to prevent disruptive “slow marches” is being introduced by the government after an attempt to amend legislation was defeated by the House of Lords.
>Suella Braverman, the home secretary, complained last week that police were seen as “supporting militant protesters” by “giving them cups of tea or dancing along” with them at demonstrations.
>Just Stop Oil leaders are holding training sessions as they plot to bring London to a halt, according to an investigation by The Sun on Sunday.
>Recruits are given four hours’ training in Dalston, east London, at an office that has become known as a centre of activism and which is linked to other protest groups including Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Animal Rising.
>Judy Bruce, 83, a training leader, reportedly described how police “facilitate” their protests while the activists try to get as many people arrested as possible to overwhelm the officers.
>Rowan Tilly, 65, spoke about the suffragette movement and showed drawings of a woman hurling missiles in front of a policeman.
>“You’ve got suffragettes throwing rocks, breaking windows, using fire and arson and so on. The suffragettes won their cause,” she said. “Let yourself be seduced.”
>A leader identified only as Lance explained the importance of the slow marches and road sit-downs
>“Disruption is really, really important. We need a mass element of that,” he said. “When we get to the point that we have 1,000 marching every day — that’s what we should aim for.
>“One thousand every day. Fifty marches every day. So we can shut London down on one day. That is the level of disruption we’re aiming for.”
>Training included dealing with abuse from the public. Activists were split up, with one group pretending to be protesters as they marched around the room while the remainder sat on chairs pretending to be cars making engine noises.
>The “cars” then shouted insults at the marches such as “get a job”, “scumbag” and “get a life” as well as being told they had caused deaths.
>Just Stop Oil, which disrupted the world snooker championships in Sheffield last week, is crowdfunding for the protests. It is raising funds for activists’ legal fees, travel and banners.
>The £100,000 crowdfunder on Chuffed has received pledges of more than £15,000. The group states: “£1,000 can cover the costs of a young person going to court for resisting our genocidal government.”
>Just Stop Oil supporters marched from Parliament Square to the Home Office on Saturday to protest at the jailing of two activists for shutting Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames for 41 hours in October last year.
>Morgan Trowland, 40, was jailed last month for three years, and Marcus Decker, 34, for two years and seven months, for scaling the bridge that links the M25 between Essex and Kent.
>The group said in a statement: “We face policing at the whim of the home secretary, government by diktat and decree, and an increasingly hostile judiciary handing down disproportionately harsh sentences for peaceful protest.”
>It added: “The selfish saboteurs that the public need to be truly concerned about are those in government who have chosen to license over 100 new oil and gas projects, when they know that new fossil fuel projects are incompatible with human survival.
>“We cannot stand by and watch while our rights and freedoms and everything we love is being destroyed.The stakes could not be higher. We are calling on everyone to join us in civil resistance.”
>Since the start of its protests in April last year there have been more than 2,100 arrests and 138 people have spent time in prison, the group said.
>With our new laws we’ll crack down on the minority for the majority.
The Tory mentality in a single sentence.
I find these lot annoying idiots. They had our paper flyers whilst taking about sustainability. Everyone agrees with the core idea but they’re so belligerent they just annoy me.
Surely the economic case for sustainability must make sense at this stage anyway? As a Nation it makes us self sustaining and maybe even exporters of energy
We need to be reducing CO2 emissions as though we were at war with climate change.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/climate-change-risk-assessment-2021
> If “emissions do not come down drastically before 2030, then by 2040 some 3.9 billion people are likely to experience major heatwaves, 12 times more than the historic average.
> The probability of a synchronous, greater than 10 per cent crop failure across the top four maize producing countries, which together account for 87 per cent of exports, during the decade of the 2040s is just less than 50 per cent.
> Cascading climate impacts will likely cause higher mortality rates, drive political instability and greater national insecurity, and fuel regional and international conflict.
I hate to say it but they’re right. The UK government is not doing anywhere near enough to deal with the climate crisis, and handing out new fossil fuel production licences is morally abominable. Sunak’s talk of a “summer of celebration” is what should make people angry considering the severity of the climate (and cost of living) situation we’re in.
We need to move a war footing and unfortunately it’s JSO who are leading the way
It’s almost as if Just Stop Oil are just a bunch of young Tarquins and old boomers who are so far removed from every day folk, they don’t even qualify to be part of the London commuter class: they’re too high up even for that. Hence, they can afford to ‘stop’ London.
How about they stop the Coronation? Or the construction of Rishi’s leccy-guzzling private pool? Or all the private jet flights? Instead of stopping everyone just trying to get to work to pay their bills.
Let’s disrupt the one part of the country where public transport use is the highest as a proportion of journeys.
Not those who could walk half a mile instead of going driving children to and from school in an SUV, possibly in the morning over at least the European drink drive limit. As that might be our aunty, uncle or even mummy taking our younger sibling to school.
They protested snooker of all sports, which is when I lost all sympathy for their cause.
Ah yes. Please target London and bring it to a halt.
Because we know London is well known for its amazing, free-flowing traffic.
I saw them on Putney Bridge last week they did what they had to do. Glad I was walking to work lol
Oh ffs. I swear, they literally want it done instantly and don’t give a shit if it causes people to die in ambulances, get written up or sanctioned because of traffic delays, miss appointments etc.. Even Extinction Rebellion learnt to target the right things.
This would be the same protestors that follow an SUV driving, private jet flying millionaire?
If these people aren’t living in mud huts, eating nothing but grass and using zero electricity, then they are just hypocrites looking for their 15 mins of fame.
How does making the public think you are completely selfish butt holes achieve goals?
Just call it a Tuesday you don’t even have to show up just says it’s cuz of you.
https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/commentary/public-disapproval-of-disruptive-climate-change-protests/
For a TL:DR:
“Conclusion
Overall, the public expresses general disapproval of non-violent, disruptive protests to raise attention to the dangers of climate change. A plurality (46%) report that such efforts decrease their support for their cause.
However, these efforts have minimal effects on people’s perceptions of the dangers of climate change. Priming these efforts had no effect on people’s belief that human use of fossil fuels creates effects that endanger public health. Moreover, the framing of the actions appears to also have a small impact – respondents did not differentiate “damaging” and “pretending to damage” pieces of art in their appraisal of such actions.”
what they need to do is cuase havoc at big hqs and oil refinaries
Remember when we all used to get a surprise day of action before LEDs when a signal would go on the tube?
In this thread, I hope they are not actually oil shills. Still, acting like they will starve and are focusing on the wrong reason life is so hard. It’s due to insufficient shows of dissatisfaction!
I love how there is zero will in this country to tackle climate change, but plenty of will to stop any mention of climate change.
It’s almost as if noone really believes that climate change is real.
Don’t worry, everyone, if we keep doing capitalism it will magically stop causing all the problems it has been causing.
Cannot wait to see them dragged off trains again then.