Just Stop Oil announced they would be stopping direct action after the government announced it would not be issuing licences for oil and gas explorations. This means no more soup thrown at paintings, no more sitting on motorways, and no more orange powder thrown across everything from Stonehenge to snooker tables. But anyone who thought all of that was over would be wrong, as another activist group appears to be taking up the mantle already.
Youth Demand is a resistance campaign led by young people which is run by the same organisation as Just Stop Oil, called Umbrella. According to Umbrella, Youth Demand’s focus is on “making The Labour Party’s f***ery clear by exposing their complicity in genocide: the Palestinian genocide and the global genocide from burning fossil fuels.” The group was established in 2024 and is calling on the government to end all trade with Israel, and to raise £1 trillion from the super rich by 2030 to “pay damages to communities and countries harmed by fossil fuel burning”.
