News editor Daisy Eastlake reports on a Just Stop Oil protest which is disrupting King’s students trying to get to campus.
Climate activism group Just Stop Oil have staged slow-walking marches around central London as part of their week-long action plan. The protests have moved around the centre of the city, with Roar first spotting the protest around Kennington High Street before the marches moved up towards central London and the City of Westminster. The latest sighting is Waterloo Bridge, where protestors are blocking the rush-hour commuter traffic and making accessing campus a difficult task.
Tweet from @JustStop_Oil concerning the recent London Marathon, which took place on 23 April, asking the people of the UK to now walk instead of run in the interests of resolving climate change.
Just Stop Oil are a ‘non-violent civil resistance group’ known for staging demonstrations internationally, as well as in and around the United Kingdom. Famous occurrences range from chucking soup across Van Gogh’s paintings to high-turnout marches. Although focussed initially in the UK, primarily demanding the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects, they now declare themselves part of an international network.
Specialising in peaceful but disruptive protest, Just Stop Oil are a topic of fierce debate in the media and amongst the wider public. Their protest today comes as part of a sequence of ‘slow marches’ which they intended to hold from 7am every weekday, and 12pm on Saturdays, ending each day in Parliament Square.
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