Just Stop Oil activists have created a human barricade on a major junction in central London – bringing traffic to a standstill.
Eco activists have created a human barricade on a major junction in London – bringing traffic to a standstill.Some glued themselves to the tarmac while others linked arms to block cars and buses from passing.
Campaigners are sat with banners at the junction linking Cannon Street, Queen Victoria Street and Garlick Hill.Tommy Burnett, 30, a taxi driver from Kendal said: ‘I’m taking action because the status quo needs to change; we cannot continue using fossil fuels when we know it is causing increasingly severe weather and making areas of the world uninhabitable.
‘I’m in civil resistance because I believe people’s health, and the health of our planet, is more important than the wealth of a few.’Protesters have refused to move from the junction of Cannon Street and Queen Victoria Street The protests form part of a wider demand for the British Government to halt all new oil and gas licences and consents.
Since their latest campaign began on April 1, Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested 1,900 times, with seven supporters currently in prison.