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Sam Griffiths - Just Stop Oil

@griffics_play

7 years

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Sam Griffiths - Just Stop Oil

@griffics_play

1 year

This is my Mum. She's been marching in London with @JustStop_Oil this week. This morning she was arrested. I'm so proud of her.

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The knock came at 6am this morning. My home was raided and I was arrested. I have since been released because they had no evidence. Dozens of people have had the same happen to them today. All guilty of supporting @JustStop_Oil This is intimidation, not democracy.

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I was found guilty of walking slowly in the road today and fined £651. All for opposing this Government's genocidal climate policies and demanding no new oil, gas or coal. If you can help me clear this fine, it'll help me keep fighting. X

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Our Government is committing genocide by ignoring climate science and pushing ahead with 100 new licences for oil and gas.

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Acquitted!! Yes we intentionally broke the law. Yes we glued on. Yes we caused disruption. But our actions were proportionate. Of course they were, this is about preventing the collapse of society.

Sam Griffiths - Just Stop Oil

@griffics_play

1 year

I’m on trial for Wilful Obstruction of the Highway tomorrow. It’s for blocking Shaftesbury Avenue in support of back in October. Being in active civil resistance against oil, gas and coal and for life and love is something I'm immensely proud of.

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This is fascism. Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march.

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march

Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act

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I'm on trial again tomorrow, for another Section 12 case eg arrested for walking slowly in the road to protest the pathetic, criminal, god-awful response to climate catastrophe and the very real possibility of losing society and everything we love. Their judgement is meaningless.

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630 arrests in one month, hundreds of hours in police custody and weeks of actual prison time on remand. I was personally held for 21 days! All for walking slowly. The Met, the CPS and the Judiciary are guilty of enabling and enacting fascism.

Police make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month

Liberty condemns ‘staggering and shocking’ statistic as anti-protest legislation is enacted

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1 year

@jimbobthejetset @JustStop_Oil I'm proud of her for standing up to the state. Not being passive. Not being compliant. Not going along with what's easy. Being principled. Acting out of love. Risking something. Having the courage of her convictions.

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@griffics_play

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The government and 'justice' system is doing everything it can to make civil disobedience for climate action unthinkable. Long sentences are being used to silence people and force them to be compliant. We will remain defiant. You can't jail your way out of the climate crisis.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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🚨 BREAKING: The #WholeTruthFive Arrive at Southwark Crown Court ⛓️ Today, Lou, Cressie, Lucia, Roger and Daniel will be sentenced by Judge Hehir, and face up to 10 years in prison. 🧡 A crowd of supporters gathered to welcome them as they were driven from prison.

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Sam Griffiths - Just Stop Oil

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The 12 hottest months in the last 100,000 years have all happened in the last 12 months. This is an appropriate response to this madness.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 month

🚔 ARRESTED AT STONEHENGE ⛓️ Rajan and Niamh have been taken into custody after covering #Stonehenge in orange powder paint. 🧡 The paint is made of cornstarch, which will wash away in the rain, but the urgent need for effective government action to mitigate the catastrophic

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@griffics_play

1 year

Very proud to have been one of the arrests yesterday in Parliament Square, supporting @JustStop_Oil and confronting our failed, criminal and genocidal government. 🧡 Sign up for action at

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 year

⛓️ Over 39 arrested today for peacefully protesting against new fossil fuels. 🌡️ Over 40°C in Italy, France, Spain. 🔥 Over 24 million acres of forest burnt in Canada. 💀 Over 40 people drowned in South Korea floods. When do we say no? How many arrested protesters? How many

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1 year

I’m on trial for Wilful Obstruction of the Highway tomorrow. It’s for blocking Shaftesbury Avenue in support of back in October. Being in active civil resistance against oil, gas and coal and for life and love is something I'm immensely proud of.

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

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@griffics_play

2 years

Grant Shapps on the climate crisis "We have a plan."

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@Meliden

2 years

“I will not accept that it’s a highly dangerous road” From ITN archives.

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There's so much support for @JustStop_Oil on the streets, but you will not see this in the media. And you won't hear about societal collapse either. That's the massive, looming risk we're there to highlight and fight - the media consistently fails to address it.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

11 months

🧡 Disruption may be inconvenient, but ordinary people know it's essential in the face of societal breakdown. 🦺 Join us in civil resistance against our government issuing new oil and gas licences. 🖋️ Sign up for direct action at

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We closed our street to traffic for a pizza night tonight. It was amazing. Kids out, all playing together. Loads of great chats. Life is so good when there aren't cars flying past! Thanks for the inspiration @playingout

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@griffics_play

1 year

Proud to have taken part in this action, stopping the flow of oil at Ineos Grangemouth.

Rich Felgate

@richfelgate

1 year

This morning two @Thisis_Rigged protesters tresspassed into Grangemouth oil terminal, demanding an end to new oil and gas licenses. Heavy police presence on site and what looks like a newly built fence and gate protecting the entrance, presumably in response to recent protests.

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7 years

I've just joined the Labour Party. Their campaign was great, more of that please. Let's end the Mayhem.

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@griffics_play

5 months

My friend Cressie has been found guilty. Her trial was a sham. No legal defences we’re open to her. She couldn’t even explain her motivations. When it comes to climate (and much else) we have an Injustice System. Contempt is a much too polite word for how I feel about our courts.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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💔 Gantry climber Cressie Gethin has been found guilty. She had banned from using any legal defences. ✊ "I feel it is my duty as a human being to demand change in a way that cannot be ignored" 🦺 She will sentenced on May 3rd. Press release:

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@griffics_play

1 year

Another march, another arrest. This time held for 24 hours with a court appearance. No regrets. This is where I need to be. For my boy.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 year

🦺 Sam has been arrested marching in the road for his 13 year old son. 💀 Under UK Government policy, by the time Sam's son is 40 he will live in a world where billions of people face what the UN calls "unliveable conditions".

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1 year

This is the most important thread of your life.

Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8

@Jumpsteady

1 year

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words: »We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.« 🧵1/8

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@griffics_play

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Government now mobilising the armed forces to prevent ordinary people who desperately want to prevent harm from acting according to their conscience. No disruption to the status quo. No freedom of expression. Supporters of @JustStop_Oil are nonviolent.

Silverstone call in 100 army soldiers to deal with Just Stop Oil at British GP

Just Stop Oil have set their stall out to disrupt high profile sporting events this year, causing delays at the World Snooker Championship, Lord's Ashes Test and Wimbledon

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@griffics_play

10 months

I'm so grateful to Chris for being so honest and open and for risking something. We all need to take a leaf out of his book.

Chris Packham

@ChrisGPackham

10 months

Personally , I've now reached a point where I believe breaking the law for the climate is the ethically responsible thing to do . #ChrisPackhamC4 | @Channel4

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@roversfanmatt @JustStop_Oil It's confrontational but not intimidating. It's nonviolent direct action to highlight the biggest threat we have ever faced as a species. The police are trying to scare people out of action to protect power and property.

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@griffics_play

1 year

Anyone freaking out a bit...? I think that's the sane response. Freak out. Maybe grieve a bit. And then fight like hell to protect life and what we love.

Green Cllr Scott

@cllrLisaScott

1 year

Romania this time.

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This makes me feel sick. So intimidating. So authoritarian. We will not be bowed. Stand defiant!

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

4 months

🚨 BREAKING: Met Police Grab Just Stop Oil Supporter 🚔 Rosa was walking home with friends when she was arrested by @metpoliceuk for an "ongoing investigation" they refused to explain. ⛓️ This is what happens if you hold @UKLabour politicians to account. They would rather have

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@griffics_play

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Very proud to be part of this project. Eeeeeevvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrrrything is at stake. Get involved.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

11 months

🦺 Sam Griffiths, 48, was arrested on 19 July for slow marching against new oil and gas. 🧡 Sam takes action because he cannot stand by and watch our criminal government destroy his son's future. 🖋️ Join us and slow march in London from 29 October —

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@bigwildrover @JustStop_Oil Correct.

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@griffics_play

10 months

This is massive!!!! Civil resistance works. Be part of making this kind of change happen here. Our strategy for November builds directly on what has happened in the Netherlands. You are needed to make it happen!

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Extinction Rebellion Nederland

@NLRebellion

10 months

What a WIN!! After 27 days of A12 blockades and more than 9,000 arrests, the Lower House asks the cabinet for a phase-out plan for fossil fuel subsidies. Civil disobedience works! We will stay sharp and are ready for new actions. #StopFossilFuelSubsidies

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1 year

@superhoops10 @JustStop_Oil Yawn.

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@JustStop_Oil @metpoliceuk Police insist on Silent Night...

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@griffics_play

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Thank you for doing this. Change happens when people put themselves on the line. Be part of it:

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

10 months

🚨 THIS ISN’T A GAME: Just Stop Oil Disrupt UK’s Biggest Gaming Convention 🦺 3 supporters of Just Stop Oil have disrupted the winners final of Tekken 7 at #EGX2023 , covering the equipment in orange paint. 🖋️ We’re fighting for our lives. Join us —

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1 year

People must be pretending 'things are gonna be fine' really hard not to just scream when they see this headline. How can we just sit back and allow the fools that rule us to continue to destroy everything?!?!

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

www.theguardian.com

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@griffics_play

8 months

All these reasons are why I've been taking action with @JustStop_Oil for the past year. It's why I've been arrested 10 times since the start of October 2023. It's why I was remanded to Wandsworth Prison for 21 days. I'm out now and angry as hell. We have to stop them!

Climate Science Breakthrough

@ClimateSciBreak

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"If people like me have to get involved, you know we're in deep shit" Watch and share Jo Brand explaining the #ClimateCrisis with the unrestrained swearing it demands 🔥 🚨NEW UNCUT (pretty frank) VERSION!🚨 #COP28 #ClimateActionNow #Comedy @ProfMarkMaslin

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I just signed a petition: No prison for protest. Sign here:

Stop Jailing Truth Tellers

Sign the petition! Stop Jailing Those Telling The Truth. I signed a petition on Action Network telling the UK attorney general to stop imprisoning protesters telling the truth on climate. Cressie,...

actionnetwork.org

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@griffics_play

2 years

@GreenpeaceUK @Schiphol @GreenpeaceNL @NLRebellion Love this. Private jets should be subject to ASBO's. There's few things more antisocial that travel for the very few that's so insanely carbon intensive.

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@griffics_play

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@andycorneys That's amazing Andy, thank you so much

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@griffics_play

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Dead rivers. Massive die off of insects and birds. Your children's futures destroyed. All this in the UK. Mass death globally. All for profit. GET FUCKING ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds

Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

www.theguardian.com

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@griffics_play

2 years

@civilresistorCF @JustStop_Oil Incredibly brave.

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@griffics_play

5 months

Dear god...

Matthew Todd 🌏🔥

@MrMatthewTodd

5 months

thank god everyone is talking about this… oh

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1 year

@kevsthebest @JustStop_Oil Thanks for your generosity of spirit, warms the heart 🙂

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@griffics_play

8 months

Everyone who supports Just Stop Oil is doing essential work telling the truths the media won't, holding the criminals to account that the legal system ignores. People are going to prison for caring and acting. We need your help. Please donate and share. X

Back The UK's Most Effective Climate Change Campaign

This campaign is closed! Head to our latest crowdfunder here: https://juststopoil.org/chuffed

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@griffics_play

2 years

@fossilfreeLDN Thanks for getting in there and challenging them. It's so important they feel the impact of their decisions. They know continued fossil fuel use is a death sentence for millions. They should also know that we're not going to allow them to get away with it!

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@griffics_play

3 years

This sign was inspired by a conversation on Insta sparked by @pennywilson - I'd love to find ways of replacing NO BALL GAMES with it. If you can help or have suggestions for how to make that happen please shout!

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@griffics_play

1 year

@jonswales77 @JustStop_Oil Thanks Jon, I'll make sure she sees your message when she gets out. X

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@griffics_play

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This is so fucked up. The entire system is so profoundly wrong. It's suicide. Stop the harm:

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Matthias Schmelzer

@MGSchmelzer

11 months

The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn(£1.1tn) in 2022. Of all subsidies to the energy sector, about three-quarters go to fossil fuels.

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@griffics_play

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@metpoliceuk A functioning democracy allows space for civil disobedience. It's international law you are breaking.

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@griffics_play

2 years

A book I keep thinking about is @doctorow 's Walkaway. Near future, things are bad, people realise that the Zeta-rich have it all sewn up and they walk away. It's about a way of life that's possible when we choose to do things differently.

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@griffics_play

1 year

They're psychopaths.

#StopRosebank

@StopCambo

1 year

The UK govt is blocking the fastest & cheapest way to produce energy: onshore wind. Instead, @RishiSunak & @grantshapps are subsidising new oil fields with billions of taxpayer money. These fields will produce oil for export and do nothing to lower bills

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It won't be long before the whole country looks back at this time in disgust and despair and raging anger at how most of the news media, very much including the BCC, has utterly failed us.

Bill McGuire

@ProfBillMcGuire

1 year

Climate mayhem right across the planet, but you wouldn't think so from watching tonight's BBC 10 O'Clock News. Once again - nothing. @BBCJustinR @BBCNews @BBC

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Holding Total to account for its ruinous East African Crude Oil Pipeline project. Students fighting it in Uganda face torture. We must step up in solidarity with all those on the front line of the climate crisis.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 year

🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL PAINT @TotalEnergies HQ 🦺 Four Just Stop Oil supporters have sprayed black and orange paint across Total's offices in resistance to continued human rights violations in the construction of @EACOP_ .

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This is the way the @guardian consistently fails. It has to wake up to the fact that being unreasonable and defiant is our duty now. Incremental change is the old paradigm and right now it will kill us just as surely as the outright denialism.

Nicholas Till

@nicholas_till

1 year

“Of course Greta Thunberg is right to call out greenwashing, but the reality can be messy”. “Reality can be messy” is Guardian-speak for “leave it to sensible liberal pragmatists rather than ideological purists and @JustStop_Oil eco zealots”.

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@griffics_play

5 months

This is a disgrace.

LawyersAreResponsible

@LawyersAreResp

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UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off GPs with convictions over protests face tribunals to determine whether they can keep licence to practise. Read on @Isabella_Kam . @TheLawSociety @TheBMA @gmcuk Patient safety first

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@griffics_play

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We are allowing this to happen. Don't. Be part of demanding real action.

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Randall Gates

@rgatess

10 months

Devastating and deadly flash flooding in India as the planet’s hydrological cycle is on overdrive. #ClimateEmergency

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3 years

Really looking forward to reading this by @timrgill . It looks brilliant and I love the idea of child-friendly city planning.

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@griffics_play

1 year

Those guilty of paving the way for mass death will be confronted and stopped.

Open letter from Just Stop Oil to all those complicit in genocide: Your time is up – Just Stop Oil

Tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of people will die in the current heat storms. Any government that refuses to put it's country on a war footing that sees emissions slashed and an urgent progra...

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Thank you for your leadership Amy. Our legal system is a sad, twisted joke. Many more good people are going to go to jail for doing the right thing. I aspire to be one of them.

Plan B Earth

@PlanB_earth

2 months

BREAKING: Judge Silas Reid has today sent the indomitable Amy Pritchard to prison for 10 months. He suspended the sentences of four others, who joined her in breaking windows at JP Morgan. Here's what Amy said to Judge Reid that riled him so much

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10 months

Any doubt about their willingness to sacrifice us all for money has to be out of the window now. This is a death project.

Rosebank oil field given go-ahead by regulators

The controversial development west of Shetland is estimated to contain 300 million barrels of oil.

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@griffics_play

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Found guilty of walking slowly (to try and prevent the collapse of everything) – again! This time I'm being fined £630 and my friend Aaron £770. We would love your help in clearing this tax on conscience! Please share! X

Convicted of walking slowly (again) !

Aaron Gunning and Sam Griffiths – supporters of Just Stop Oil.

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@griffics_play

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We’re predicted to have no harvest this year in the UK due to flooding. The UN says we have 2 years to save ourselves. Where’s the urgency? WTF are our leaders doing?! We’re gearing up for much-needed climate action in the summer – help make it happen!

Fund Radical Climate Action — Just Stop Oil

"We still have a chance... two years to save the world". Simon Stiell, United Nations climate secretary, 10th April 2024. There is a sliver of hope. But heating has already crossed into +1.5C and...

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@griffics_play

3 months

We demand what the majority of us want and need – urgent, effective action on climate breakdown. This is a mainstream position.

Indigo Rumbelow

@IndigoRumbelow

3 months

We are extremely worried. Extremely frustrated. Extremely dismayed, betrayed and bewildered. But we am not 'extreme.' “The truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels." Guterres, 2022 @JustStop_Oil

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@griffics_play

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What freedom do we have when we lose the right to protest? How can we challenge unjust laws? How can we demand urgent change? A system that denies disruptive dissent is fascist. Sign the petition from Amnesty International UK today:

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@griffics_play

1 year

James, Cal and I deliberately broke our bail conditions yesterday by slow marching in the road. My conditions were to not protest on any UK roadway up to a court a month away. I'm not prepared to wait and watch the world burn from the sidelines. Another night in the cells.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 year

🙅🏼‍♀️ 3 Just Stop Oil Supporters Defy Authoritarian Bail Conditions 🦺 Yesterday, James Kelly (46), Sam Griffiths (47) and Callum Goode (23) chose to break bail conditions imposed on them by @metpoliceuk and were arrested while slow marching for no new oil and gas in London.

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NASA Climate Scientist... Being on the streets is the answer. Unfortunately, nothing is more important. Defeatism, wilful blindness, inability to face reality, thinking someone will save us, are all luxuries we can't afford. Become an active supporter of

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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It’s incredibly difficult being a climate scientist in this society, at an emotional level. We can see the future, it is terrifying, and we are being ignored

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Really interesting article. So much is suddenly possible when we question/shift priorities. 'The big idea: should cars be banned from cities?'

The big idea: should cars be banned from cities?

Streets have been optimised for one thing: traffic. A kind of ‘urban rewilding’ could return them to the complex social ecosystems they once were

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It's so desperate in Palestine, what can we do? Helping fincially, one family at a time is at least something. Solidarity with the Palestinian people. They are now being starved. That we've let this happen makes me feel gut wrenching shame.

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We're in an emergency and we have to start acting like it. If you can donate to help us take much-needed action this summer, you'll be helping put our continued existence on the agenda!

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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✈️ In normal circumstances, disrupting airports would be unacceptable. 🛢️ What’s more unacceptable is having record-breaking temperatures for 10 straight months and slamming through the 1.5 degree threshold, as governments continue to allow new oil and gas drilling. 🌾 Record

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@grantshapps @Ed_Miliband What a brave soul you are, clamping down on the right of ordinary people to protest and express themselves freely. A lone figure, only armed with the full weight of establishment power. All the while you're actively investing in the fuels that are killing us.

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This film really needs to get made! If you can, please chip in to the crowdfunder. X

EVERYTHING IS FINE

@EIF_film

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How far will ordinary people go to stop new oil and gas, and how far will our government go to stop them? 📺 EVERYTHING IS FINE, the inside story of the people in @JustStop_Oil , crowdfunding now on Indiegogo. 💸63% funded with one week to go. Donate

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@ZoeatShine @MrMatthewTodd @JustStop_Oil Thanks a lot Zoe. I know, and they'd feel so much better for doing so.

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This is fucked up. These signs simply state the law. The people holding them are being threatened with arrest. Trudi Warner is being prosecuted for holding the same sign. She could face a long prison sentence. For holding a placard. It's utterly unjust.

Indigo Rumbelow

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I have been threatened with arrest for holding a placard. #defendourjuries

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@JunkScience @dwallacewells @RogerHallamCS21 WTF are you talking about? Were you around for summer? 40° in the UK for the first time since records began. 2022 is the hottest year on record worldwide. The oceans have never been this warm. Massive drought in China. Record temperatures all over the globe.

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Great intervention by the UN in the ongoing state repression of climate activists in UK.

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🚨🇬🇧⚖️ #UK Given my grave concerns on the criminalization of UK #EnvironmentalDefender Daniel Shaw who faces up to 2-years prison for a participation in a Zoom call about a #protest , I will personally attend Shaw's trial next week. My full statement 👉

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Really pleased we got a positive result in this one. Shame it was on a technicality (the Section 12 was not applied legally) and on the not the moral substance of what we had done!

Genevieve Shanahan

@GenShanahan

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🎉 Not Guilty! 🎉 In July last year @griffics_play , Oli and I marched with @JustStop_Oil at Parliament Square to protest the “moral and economic madness” of granting new fossil fuel licenses. We were all arrested.

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@Frances11574099 @JustStop_Oil Thanks for your thoughtful response 🙂

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I worked on this party. It's galling a mind-blowing that closing it down before it even happened could be a priority for the Met.

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@JustStop_Oil

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🚔 POLICE BAN PARTYING 💃 Today we had a music night in Kentish Town with @fossilfreeLDN , but the police contacted the venue and put them under pressure, forcing them to CANCEL OUR PARTY. ⛓️ As if banning protest wasn't enough, are they trying to make partying illegal now!? 🎵

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Trudi is brilliant. Her action has cut to the core of the injustice system. Support her by taking action in solidarity and backing the Good Law project.

Good Law Project

@GoodLawProject

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“I thought things like this happened in authoritarian regimes. But I’m absolutely amazed that it’s happened here.” Trudi Warner could face up to two years in prison for holding up a placard reminding juries of their rights. Hear her story:

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Our Government isn't content to just destroy the future of our young people. It will destroy those young people who speak out and highlight their crimes.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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🧡 This is Sarah. She's just been released from Court after spending the night in a police cell. This was the second time she's been arrested under Section 12. Why was Sarah held and put before a judge? ⛓️ She wasn't breaching bail. 🚔 She hasn't ever been convicted of an

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If you're working for or with these companies, please think again. They will destroy everything unless we stop them. Take away their social license to exist.

Matthias Schmelzer

@MGSchmelzer

1 year

When you hear about climate-related #heatwaves , #floods or #droughts , remember: In 2022 alone, five oil companies ⁠— ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies ⁠— more than doubled their profits to an all-time historic record of $200 billion.

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These brave people will have so much abuse thrown at them. They know it and they did it anyway. Incredible. They are doing what we should all be doing – making everyone stop and confront what's happening – that we're on the brink of collapse. Bravo!!

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil interrupt Les Mis. 🦺 4 people are locked to the stage of the French-revolution-themed show. 💬 “Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal? 🌡 The fossil fuel show can't go on:

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Amazing – thank you for taking action. If you're my age (late forties) – what are you doing? Are you going to leave it all up to young people to bear the weight of this? Sign up to take action

Just Stop Oil – End Fossil Fuels By 2030

We can't save our burning world with a firehose of oil and gas. The 1.5°C limit is only possible if we stop burning fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Stop.

juststopoil.org

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

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🚨 BREAKING: Student Paints University of Bristol’s Historic Queen’s Building Orange 🦺 He, alongside 100s of others, is calling for University staff and students to march against government plans for new oil and gas this November. 🖋️ March with them —

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@RogerWoodall7 Thanks for that. Why not just throw away the key? We will only go and do it again. The last thing you want is people walking about, telling the truth and causing moderate disruption.

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@liamyoung The aurgument carries less weight because you don’t like the people making it?

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This is so brilliant @ZoeatShine !

Sky News

@SkyNews

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Zoe Cohen from @JustStop_Oil says 'unless people do things that are slightly transgressive people don't notice the difference'. To illustrate her point, she then sits on the studio floor. 📺 Sky 501 / Youtube

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I'm incredibly humbled and moved by the response to this crowdfunder – the total has been reached! I'm also in a considerably better mood than I was leaving the courtroom yesterday. Solidarity is a beautiful thing. Onwards! x

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I was found guilty of walking slowly in the road today and fined £651. All for opposing this Government's genocidal climate policies and demanding no new oil, gas or coal. If you can help me clear this fine, it'll help me keep fighting. X

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Stand with Trudi. Charge us with contempt too, say 40 people, if climate activist prosecuted

Charge us with contempt too, say 40 people, if climate activist prosecuted

Fellow activists who have made similar protests to Trudi Warner’s challenge solicitor general as he decides whether to charge her

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Unmade bed, made from found paper bag.

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This quote should be on every front page and lead every bulletin everywhere. Taking to the streets is our only hope.

Roger Hallam

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"I"m telling you that we're putting our kids on a global school bus that with 98% probability will end in a deadly crash", Prof J. Schellnhuber, world famous earth scientist. Ready for Civil Resistance yet?

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@bbcnickrobinson And yet another week goes by with you failing to communicate the peril we face from climate breakdown. You need to wake people up to this. It's your job. You will never be forgiven if you don't adequately warn people.

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Please support @youth_demand – young people taking vital action to prevent genocide – the horrors in Gaza and the horrors to come as our climate continues to break down.

Youth Demand: Stop Arming Israel

Israel's actions are indefensible. The IDF continues to bomb refugee camps and designated ‘safe areas’ across Gaza, indiscriminately killing civilians, including women and children. Experts are...

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@Ros_Rodriguez_ @endelstamberg @rhosking252 @ClimatePowers @ECOWARRIORSS @HappyEcoNews @BriceGarreau @iSostenibilidad @worldgreendlp @Elizabeth_Ruler @greenwashdotcom Yes! Now the same for oil companies. And brands that rely on single-use plastics. And big agriculture. It's mad that companies and Governments can wash their hands of the mess they make.

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@chazhutton Mapping London by property price - you’re welcome!

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Maybe continuing to drill for oil, knowing it's destroying everything, is a really bad idea...?

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The Nohor alpha platform is on fire (Gulf of Mexico). Fossil fuels are burning the world.

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I fall into this pattern all the time

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@chippy1985 @JustStop_Oil Cheers Richard – appreciate you finding the time to share your thoughts 🙂

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So great to see leadership like this from @joelycett – hope more people step up too. The fossil fuel industry is killing people now and will keep on killing. Millions will die unless we stop them.

Matthew Todd 🌏🔥

@MrMatthewTodd

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Guys, this is so important, please retweet this or the tweet below. @bp_plc and @Shell are killing people + lobby against climate action. They can not use the LGBT community to sanitise their murderous industry - especially in Pride month #BritishLGBTAwards #BPShellRainbowWashing

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This is pretty terrifying. To outlaw effective and disruptive protest is fascist. To outlaw climate protest as the world slips into climate chaos is insane and fails us all.

LBC

@LBC

1 year

“This isn’t protest, this is crime.” The Met spent nearly £8 million policing 515 @JustStop_Oil slow marches in London. Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist tells @NickFerrariLBC that "the right to protest is fundamental, but the right to disrupt others isn’t."

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Absolutely loving @MichaelRosenYes 's Book of Play. Full of fascinating theory and stories – as well as lots of practical ways to be more playful.

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This is sooooooo good. Never let them have a moment's peace. Never let them pretend they aren't committing the worst crimes imaginable.

Fossil Free London

@fossilfreeLDN

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BREAKING: We're staging a sit-in outside the main entrance to @Shell 's London HQ! We won't let Big Oil continue to profit from burning our futures and hiking our energy bills - it's time to get #oilymoneyout !

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