In a press release issued on Thursday, the group mentioned: “Just Stop Oil’s preliminary demand to finish new oil and fuel is now Authorities coverage, making us one of the profitable civil resistance campaigns in current historical past. We’ve saved over 4.4 billion barrels of oil within the floor and the courts have dominated new oil and fuel licences illegal.
“So it’s the finish of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and sluggish marching within the streets. However it isn’t the top of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in jail.
The organisation added: “As firms and billionaires corrupt political techniques the world over, we’d like a special method. We’re creating a brand new technique, to face this actuality and to hold our duties right now. Nothing wanting a revolution goes to guard us from the approaching storms.”
Right here we check out a few of the wildest methods they’ve let their emotions recognized up to now.
Simply Cease Oil’s craziest protests
Confetti on the tennis court docket
A Simply Cease Oil protester on court docket 18 throwing confetti and jigsaw items on to the grass throughout the 2023 Wimbledon Championships (Adam Davy/PA)
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Deborah Wilde, 69, Simon Milner-Edwards, 67, and William Ward, 66, have been discovered responsible of aggravated trespass at Metropolis of London Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday.
The trio scaled a barrier and threw the gadgets on the court docket throughout the third day of The Championships match in July.
Spray paint on Stonehenge
Simply Cease Oil protesters sprayed an orange substance at Stonehenge (Simply Cease Oil)
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It occurred simply days earlier than deliberate celebrations started for the Summer season Solstice on the 5,000-year-old landmark, with the group saying the orange powder paint was cornflour and it might “wash away with rain”.
The group named the 2 protesters as Niamh Lynch, a 21-year-old scholar from Oxford, and Rajan Naidu, a 73-year-old from Birmingham, in a press release.
Simply Cease Oil interrupts Les Miserables on the Sondheim Theatre in London’s West Finish (Simply Cease Oil/PA)
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In October 2023, protestors held up a West Finish manufacturing to unfold their message.
Throughout a efficiency of the track Do You Hear the Folks Sing?, members of the Simply Cease Oil group stormed the stage with banners as viewers members booed.
Technical workers rapidly got here on stage, the protection curtain got here down adopted by the primary curtain and ultimately, they have been eliminated, however the efficiency was cancelled.
Police closing the M25, the place a demonstrator from Simply Cease Oil climbed the gantry in 2022 (Simply Cease Oil/PA)
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The group climbed gantries over the M25 in an try to trigger gridlock on the motorway in November 2022, resulting in the highway being shut as police tried to maintain them protected and transfer them on.
George Simonson and Theresa Higginson have been sentenced to 2 years every, Paul Bell was sentenced to 22 months, and Gaie Delap and Paul Sousek have been sentenced to twenty months for his or her half within the protests.
A sixth defendant, Daniel Johnson, was given a 21-month sentence suspended for 2 years and ordered to finish 200 hours of neighborhood service.
All six had pleaded responsible to inflicting a public nuisance for his or her half within the 4 days of disruption on the M25 as they mentioned they needed to “power the federal government right into a ban on new fossil gas exploration within the North Sea”.
Soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Two protesters threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s well-known 1888 work Sunflowers on the Nationwide Gallery in London (Simply Cease Oil/PA)
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“What is worth more, art or life?” said one of the activists, Phoebe Plummer, 21, from London. She was accompanied by 20-year-old Anna Holland, from Newcastle. “Is it worth more than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
The painting was left unscathed as it is covered in glass and the National Gallery cleared the room shortly after the incident as police got involved.
The opening night of the BBC Proms was interrupted by two protesters from Just Stop Oil (Just Stop Oil/PA)
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The duo mounted the stage and were met with boos and jeers from some members of the audience at the BBC’s classical music festival, before being led away by security staff.
Just Stop Oil protesters Di Bligh, 77, and Alyson Lee, 66, beside the grave of Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey (Jamie Lowe/Just Stop Oil/PA)
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Two people used chalk paint on the naturalist’s grave in Westminster Abbey in January.
Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading Council, from Rode in Somerset, were involved in the action, the organisation said.
The Metropolitan police confirmed two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage “with what is believed to be powdered paint at Westminster Abbey”.
Just Stop Oil activists being detained by police after orange liquid latex was poured over an Optimus robot at the Tesla store
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The pair climbed onto a podium display and poured the liquid latex over the life-sized humanoid robot. They unfurled a Just Stop Oil banner as they completed the deed, for which they were arrested shortly after.
JSO supporters blocking departure gates at Gatwick Airport in July (Just Stop Oil/PA)
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The group entered the South Terminal and “used suitcases with lock-on devices to block the departure gates”. They were arrested shortly after.
The action is part of the “Oil Kills international uprising”, the group said, taking action at airports around the world.
