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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Annie Kelly

Monday briefing: ​As Just Stop Oil disbands, how will we remember the radical climate activist group?

Just Stop Oil Ends Three-Year Campaign with Final Day of Action.On Saturday, April 26th, 2025, activists from Just Stop Oil gathered in St James’ Park for what they described as their final day of action. From there, they marched to he Royal Courts of Justice then across Waterloo Bridge, before continuing to Shell’s offices near Jubilee Gardens. The demonstration marked the conclusion of a three-year campaign characterised by civil resistance and high-profile protests, all aimed at ending new oil and gas licensing in the UK. In a public statement, the group announced, “After three years, we’re hanging up the hi-vis,” signalling a close to their signature tactics of disruption and high-visibility protest., Credit:Abdullah Bailey / Avalon
Just Stop Oil’s final demonstration marked the conclusion of a three-year campaign. Photograph: Abdullah Bailey/Avalon

Good morning.

This weekend Just Stop Oil put down their soup cans, hung up their hi-vis and disbanded, saying that now the UK government had stopped extracting oil and gas from the North Sea, they had achieved what they set out to do back in 2022.

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