Just Stop Oil have held a series of protets
(Picture: Just Stop Oil/PA)Just Stop Oil protesters marched through London blocking traffic in a protest in support of 150 of their jailed activists.
The protesters gathered in Parliament Square before heading through central London on Saturday.
Just Stop Oil (JSO) said the protest was to “celebrate the political prisoners who have taken a stand against our criminal government on the biggest issue humanity has ever faced: that of climate collapse”.
The demonstrators head to New Scotland Yard, where speeches featuring former prisoners, friends and family of those currently imprisoned and representatives of CND, Global Women’s Strike, Kill the Bill, Stop HS2 and Extinction Rebellion were on the agenda.
JSO spokesperson Indigo Rumblelow JSO said: “We will not sit by and watch while the government imprisons peaceful people for conspiring to care, while they take away all our rights and freedoms, while they carry on torching the climate.
“New oil and gas is the greatest act of mass murder in human history. Those who support this criminal plan are complicit in genocide. They will be the ones on trial in years to come.
“Our supporters understand what the government and the police have not yet grasped. Your laws and punishments mean nothing in the face of the certain collapse of our food supply, our ordered civil society, our peace and security. We face the loss of everything we hold dear. We will continue to resist until the government makes a critical U-turn: to announce an end to new fossil fuel licences in the UK. “
Traffic on Westminster Bridge has been disrupted by the demonstration.
