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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Matthew Taylor and Damien Gayle

What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?

A Just Stop Oil protest at Heathrow airport in London last August.
A Just Stop Oil protest at Heathrow airport in London last August. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

On the morning of Valentine’s Day 2022, Hannah Hunt stood at the gates of Downing Street to announce the start of a new kind of climate campaign, one that would eschew mere protest and instead move into “civil resistance”.

Last week, three years and thousands of arrests later, in a neat tie-up exemplary of Just Stop Oil’s (JSO) love of media-savvy stunts, Hunt went to the same spot again – this time to announce the group would be “hanging up the hi-vis”.

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