Has Just Stop Oil really stopped throwing soup?

The Action Commine Stop group announced only that oil announced that it would lead to a solution at the end of April. He mocked her activists as expression and auxiliary, as they hate it by many because of the annoying direct work tactics. She says she has won because her demand should not be new oil and gas licenses is now a government policy. So, did they really win and is this limiting the chaos resulting from its climatic protests?

Haley Walsh’s heart was racing sitting at the Royal Drury Lynn theater on January 27 this year.

The 42 -year -old lecturer and a mother of three years tried to calm her breathing. The Hollywood star Sejorney was on stage in her first production in West End in favor of the storm in Shakespeare.

But Haley, a fair oil activist, had her own drama.

“Come, I say,” Haley has spread from her seat and rushed the theater with Richard Ware, a 60 -year -old mechanical engineer from Tendaid.

They launched a dessert cannon and canceled a banner. I read “More than 1.5 degrees are a global shipping wreck” – a sign of the news that 2024 was the first year to pass the symbolic 1.5C threshold In the average global temperature, and gesture to the subject of the ship’s debris in the play.

It was only classic work to stop (JSO). The goal was prominent and will guarantee propaganda. The message was simple and presented in the distinctive orange of the group.

The affected person’s reaction was also a classic response to JSO. In the middle of Boos, you can hear the “idiot” trend.

“I pull them out of the stage,” a member of the audience can be heard screaming, “I wish you [expletive] Get their arrest, “another says.

JSO is an UK environmental activist group that aims to end the extraction of fossil fuels and uses direct procedures to attract attention to its case. It was called “criminal worship” and its activists bearing “environmental floors” by Sun. Daily Mail described it as “distorted” and says that its members “unleashed misery to thousands of ordinary people despite the selfish strange.”

The group threw the soup in the Van Gogh at the National Gallery, and a chalk dust bomb bombed during the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield, and a wardrobe containing a copy of Magna Carta in the British Library, and spraying temporary paint on Stoneheng Stone, until Charles Darwin was distorted.

But it is the group’s road protests that caused the most interruption – and general anger. In November 2022, 45 JSO members climbed the jacids around the M25, severely disrupting traffic for more than four days. People missed flights, medical dates and exams, as thousands of drivers were delayed for hours. The cost of the Capital Police was placed at 1.1 million pounds.

Only the oil stops from the extinction rebellion (XR). XR – which was founded in 2018 – brought thousands of people to the streets, while it was called “Resistance Festivals”. They reached its climax in April 2019, when the demonstrators brought parts of the capital for more than a week and expelled a large pink boat in the center of the Oxford Circus.

The XR scene and turmoil caused the huge media attention, but the police were angry. Hundreds of officers were transferred from the duties of the front lines and by the end of 2019, the protest law reached 37 million pounds.

And behind the scenes, XR was angry discussions about tactics. Many within the movement said that it should be less and destroyed, but the essence of the solid activists have argued that it would be more effective to write down direct work.

It has become clear that there was a room for what Sarah Lunon, one of the founders participating only for oil, “a more radical wing”. They have decided that a new more focused process is needed, similar to previous civil disobedience movements such as disability, civil disobedience campaigns in Gandhi and the civil rights movement in the United States.

The collection was officially launched on Valentine’s Day, 2022. It was an animal completely different from XR. Instead of thousands of people who participate in carnivals in the streets, JSO actions involve a few committed activists. A small strategy group supervised the campaign and strictly planned its activities. The packing team worked on employing new members, and another team focused on supporting activists after their arrest.

Dozens of procedures conducted by the group have given a lot of advertising, but also a huge general opposition. There were confrontations between members of the public and the demonstrators and screams from politicians in all major political parties.

The police said they need more powers to deal with this new form of protest and obtained it. New crimes have been created including interference in national infrastructure, “lock on” – sequence or sticking yourself with something – and underground tunnel. The cause of the inconvenience of a general crime has also become a potential crime – providing the police with a strong new tool for use against demonstrators who block roads.

In the four years that have passed since the formation of dozens of supporters of the group, they were imprisoned. Five activists were handed over a multi -year penalty for their role in the M25 procedures in 2022. They were reduced at the appeal earlier this month, but they are still the longest prison terms for civil disobedience at all.

JSO senior members denied that the campaign had any relationship with the group’s decision to “hang the residents”-as it announced this week at the end of the campaign.

JSO’s general position is that he won his battle. “Just stops the initial demand for oil to end the new oil and gas is now a government policy, which makes us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in modern history,” the group claimed.

The government said it is not planning to issue any new oil and gas production licenses, but it strongly denies that its policies are related to JSO. Moreover, the official spokesperson for the Prime Minister said: “We were very clear when it comes to oil and gas to have a future for decades in our energy mix.”

The wider group’s goal – to end oil and gas production – has not clearly achieved. The members of the group that talked to them about this article agree to deepen the climate crisis.

In the face of more solid sentences, some climate activists said they would turn into more secret activities. One of the new collections says she plans a campaign to sabotage against the main infrastructure. In a statement published on the Internet, she says she plans to “start a new phase of the climate activists movement, with the aim of closing the main actors of the fossil fuel economy.”

This is not a trend, the members of JSO who spoke to them said they wanted to go. Sarah Lunon said that the main JSO principle and the movement of civil disobedience in general is that activists will take responsibility for their actions. One of the first questions posed to the new carpenters is whether they are ready to close it.

“Since companies and billionaires spoil political systems around the world, we need a different approach.

“We create a new strategy, to confront this reality and assume our responsibilities at this time,” the group says, indicating that they may plan to form a new movement.

Roger Halham, the most famous in JSO, is one of the five activists convicted of their role in the M25 protests. In a letter of his cell in prison, he admitted that JSO had only a “marginal effect”.

This is “not because of not trying,” he said. Halim claimed that failure lies in the “elites and our leaders” in the United Kingdom, who have moved away from their responsibility for addressing the climate crisis. Perhaps the group’s new focus may be on the political system itself.

JSO said that her last protest – which is held at the end of April – will celebrate “the end of the soup on Van Goghs, an atom of starch in Stoneheng and the slow march in the streets.” But do not believe that. When pressed, the JSO members who spoke to them said they might return to sabotage tactics, but under a new name and with a new and unlimited goal yet.