Just Stop Oil has taken a series of actions in the UK to demand executives stop new hydrocarbon exploitation projects. This Monday they sprayed orange paint on the facades of symbolic buildings in London.
“These buildings were chosen because they represent the pillars that hold and sustain the power of the fossil fuel economy, government, security, finance and media,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement.
Eight people were arrested, police announced.
“The age of fossil energy should have ended a long time ago, but the dangerous consequences of fossil fuel interests continue to undermine our politics, our government, and our media as they have for decades,” said a spokesman for the group, which is campaigning for an immediate halt to the project. new oil and gas.
Among the painted sites is the headquarters of London News Corp, the US group owned by Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch, owner of Britain’s leading newspaper The Times and tabloid newspaper The Sun.
Just Stop Oil has been carrying out a series of actions in the UK since the start of the month. For example, activists toppled a wax figure of King Charles at the Madame Tussauds wax museum, threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflower” at the National Gallery and painted an Aston Martin dealer.
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Activists have repeatedly blocked London’s streets over the weekend and have faced the wrath of motorists, who have sometimes violently chased them away.
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