just stop oil
Criminal conspiracy aimed at disturbing the peace.Five Just Stop Oil activists, including one of its co-founders, 58-year-old Roger Hallam, on July 18 were sentenced to unprecedented prison terms for planning to block the M25 motorway in November 2022:a Zoom call was sufficient for the conviction which, according to the sentence, demonstrated "the intricate planning and sophistication of the disruptive action" and constituted "irrefutable proof" of the existence of a criminal conspiracy. Who are the Just Stop Oil activists? Just Stop Oil is a British group of climate activists, founded in 2022 and known for its disruptive actions, such as blocking major roads, disrupting sporting events, throwing cornmeal paint on monuments such as Stonehenge.The group calls its protest tactics actions of “non-violent civil resistance to pressure the British government” on the issue of anthropogenic climate change.The first Just Stop Oil protests aimed to stop al...
In one of the now classic road blocks, climate activists prevented the procession from continuing by sitting in front of the Coca Cola float