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BREAKING: Chaos at Shell AGM as climate protesters sing ‘Go to Hell, Shell’!. #ShutDownShell
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BREAKING: We just disrupted Andy Samuel the man in charge of the UK's oil & gas regulator - as he spoke in a fancy London hotel to WeCa an event choca-block with climate killers from Shell to Equinor. Almost £3k a ticket but we snuck in. He must #StopRosebank - we want to live!
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UPDATE: Climate protesters attempt to storm the stage of Shell AGM!!!. As Shell continues to cause climate chaos, we will continue to do everything in our power to #ShutDownShell
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BREAKING: We crashed a Private Jets Conference in a swanky London hotel. … Just as they were debating how to deal the climate protests. #CJILondon
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BREAKING: we just disrupted ‘Elite London’ - an event showcasing private jets & other luxury goods. 🛩️ Private jets are the most unsustainable form of transport a person can take. Just 1% of the world cause 50% of aviation emissions, & about 80% of us have never set foot on a ✈️
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Millions of people skipping meals.Millions unable to pay their bills.Millions more at risk of poverty, with 1 in 5 adults already there. Shell, meanwhile, hasn't paid tax since 2017 & recently registered record smashing profits counted in the billions. #CostOfLivingCrisis
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BREAKING:.We're staging a sit-in outside the main entrance to @Shell's London HQ! We won't let Big Oil continue to profit from burning our futures and hiking our energy bills - it's time to get #oilymoneyout!
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55 Tufton Street redecorated by Just Stop Oil in protest over political capture and climate denial. Our politicians are in the pockets of these shady lobbying groups. Time to cut ties & #juststopoil. No new oil and gas projects or licenses. #A22Network #ClimateProtest @ByDonkeys
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BREAKING: we've blocked the Intercontinental Hotel where BP Boss Bernard Looney is about to address oil execs & financiers. Droughts. Floods. Wildfires. Climate crisis is here. Our house is on fire & the fossil fuel industry is pouring kerosene on the blaze. #NoNewOilandGas
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BREAKING: @GretaThunberg has joined our blockade outside J P Morgan and @chase_uk. We know where the money is to transform the world into a cleaner, more equal one - it's sitting in the pockets of the 1%. It's time to #MakePollutersPay. #OilyMoneyOut
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FIRST LOOK: After we disrupted his talk inside, we also confronted him outside . Double whammy of @bp_plc’s Chief Economist yesterday in London . #BPMustFall #BP #BPProfits #CostofLivingCrisis #EnergyCrisis
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BREAKING: we’ve blocked the doors of Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf . Europe’s biggest fossil fuel funder since the Paris Agreement . Shame on @Barclays. #OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: TODAY we confronted @bp_plc's Chief Economist, Spencer Dale. Gas and oil means we face unaffordable energy and climate collapse. While BP is investing $30 million to expand it every day. Despite record profits, BP is cutting investment in renewables. We resist.
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BREAKING: Greta Thunberg has been arrested blocking the entrance to the Oil and Money conference. Hours after delivering a speech about the pollution of our politics by oily money. It's up to us to stand up for us. It's up to us to save us. #OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: @JustStop_Oil target @TotalEnergies office in Canary Warf over the disastrous #EACOP pipeline. 🔥. #StopEACOP
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🚨 BREAKING: The Whole Truth Five have been sentenced to a combined 21 years in prison for conspiracy to cause public nuisance!. They will sit behind bars for 4-5 years while the real criminals like Shell and Barclays continue to set our only home on fire 🔥
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TODAY: As our chants rung out inside, BP CEO Bernard Looney delivered the keynote at #InternationalEnergyWeek to push for. more fossil fuels. We cannot afford more oil and gas. Our bills are unpayable & we are in danger. Profits rise, we get poor, climate crisis is class war.
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FIRST LOOK: we snuck into the Intercontinental yesterday for #InternationalEnergyWeek (previously International Petroleum Week) - a ticketed event costing 000s - to call out the financiers of oil & gas. Human survival is a basic demand. It must be heard everywhere men endanger it
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BREAKING: We just disrupted the lobby of the Intercontinental hotel because they are hosting climate criminals for International Energy Week. While Equinor were speaking as 'transition leaders' we know the truth: only 0.15% of Equinor's energy came from renewables last year
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BREAKING: God save big oil! . As the nation celebrates our subservience to the upper class…. Meet Kush. Fossil Free London organiser and doctor specialising in infectious diseases. Kush has just been arrested at the coronation for wearing a t-shirt reading #JustStopOil
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BREAKING: . We've occupied the department for Energy Security & Net Zero to tell the government to #StopRosebank. Rosebank would be a climate catastrophe, costing us billions in public money while sending us spiraling towards climate collapse. More to follow.
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🌍Today we're outside 10 Downing Street with @fffldn as part of Fridays for Future's #GlobalClimateStrike day. We are fighting for climate justice and we won't stop until it's done!!🛢️🚫🛢️🚫. #ClimateJusticeNow
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BREAKING: We’ve just disrupted a performance of Romeo and Juliet at Sadler’s Wells theatre, telling them to drop @Barclays dirty oil sponsorship! It’s time to get #OilyMoneyOut of our arts, our city and our futures 🚫
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BREAKING: This morning we are protesting with @gretathunberg outside the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero to demand the UK government #StopRosebank, the largest undeveloped oil field in the North Sea. More oil = more wildfires, freak hail, floods = global devastation 🛑
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BREAKING: We're blocking the Oil & Money conference, on the day the bosses of Shell & Total were due to speak. As the world burns, climate criminals conspire over canapés. We will block them. Join us there - right now, outside the Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane. #OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: The Chief Economist of @bp_plc Spencer Dale was just disrupted by us AGAIN for the third time in just over 2 weeks . New oil and gas is madness . It must be stopped. Yesterday afternoon, at a Scottish Energy Forum event. #bpmustfall #climatejustice
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Meanwhile outside the AGM: protesters who have been kicked out have joined the #ShutDownShell sit-in!
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BREAKING: the world’s largest investor in coal oil and gas doesn’t get to talk about ethics and sustainability unchallenged. We just disrupted a BlackRock session to say fossil fuel finance is a death sentence to billions of people . #DefundClimateChaos #EndFossilFinance
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: We just disrupted Equinor at the #Oceanology2024 conference over their new oil and gas project in our North Sea. New oil is a death sentence #StopRosebank
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🚨Breaking 🚨. Fossil free London are blocking the doors to the world’s biggest banking climate criminal: @JPMorgan who have financed 434 billion dollars of fossil fuels since 2016. Their profit is our loss. #OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: 4 of us just disrupted an annual aviation industry conference sponsored by Shell & air BP. Aviation is totally unsustainable. No technology currently exists to turn it green. The industry must shrink, fast because it is causing #lossanddamage right now. #staygrounded
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HAPPENING NOW: @GretaThunberg joins us outside the Intercontinental Hotel. Time to get #OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: Shell just announced they made £4.6BN in just the last 3 months. We're outside Shell's HQ, on their profits day, as part of #MakePollutersPay week of action, to demand Shell pay up for the devastation they've caused. Shell, stop sucking the life out of us 🦇🧛
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Today, Kush, an NHS doctor, was arrested for wearing a Just Stop Oil t-shirt. The climate crisis is putting millions of lives at risk. But a t-shirt that dares to mention it on the King's Big Day is just too damned dangerous. Solidarity with all those arrested. #coronation
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The 5 #OilyMoneyOut protestors in court today have all been acquitted due to a ‘condition so unclear …that it was unlawful.’ Judge Law . This is a rare glimmer of justice, in a rising sea of repression. Climate protest is not a crime but it is still treated as such. We resist!
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🚨 BREAKING: . We staged a musical sit-in inside the hotel where oil execs were meeting for an exclusive conference & dinner. #GoToHellShell 🎵
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🚨Breaking: We're blockading the doors of @bp_UK HQ.🚨.It was recently given licence by Israel to explore for gas off of Gaza's coast. While Israel commits genocide BP just sees a new business opportunity. No climate justice without Palestinian justice.#CeasefireNOW
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BREAKING: We challenged @Equinor's Chief Economist Eirik Wærness on his way to Parliament to lobby for Rosebank oil field. Rosebank would cost the public £3.75 billion in public money & fuel climate collapse. We have to cut these companies out of our politics and #StopRosebank.
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SPOTTED ON THE TUBE!. Barclays is bankrolling climate collapse by pouring billions into dangerous fossil fuels. they should absolutely not be sponsoring the tennis. @Wimbledon, when will you be dropping @Barclays?. #Barclays #defundclimatechaos #Wimbledon
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BREAKING: The latest big oil lie is that corporations can keep destroying the foundations of life without consequence. At this Equinor sponsored dinner for the rich and reckless we're here to speak the truth tonight. It's a sham. #StopRosebank
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Ridiculous policing is the tip of the iceberg. Our government has passed draconian protest laws, handed police terrifying powers & stoked anti-protest sentiment. It won't stop us challenging the companies fueling climate collapse. But it shows whose side our government is on.
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BREAKING: We’re outside Ithaca Energy's office in London!.Owned by an Israeli conglomerate, Ithaca is a fossil fuel company with part ownership of the Rosebank oil field. The same imperial forces enabling genocide in Gaza are also those enable climate breakdown. #FreePalestine
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BREAKING: We just disrupted the @WECA’s Awards of Excellence dinner in Mayfair tonight. We made it clear the only awards they really deserve. The climate crisis is here, and these are the people and companies responsible.
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Outside Southwark court this morning where Just Stop Oil supporters are being imprisoned for taking part in a zoom call to encourage people to take nonviolent civil disobedience #wholeTruth5 #wholetruthfive
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Don’t despair! Licensing is a very slow process, and we’re facing a lot of political posturing… . But do get active. We need YOU to help us stop the APPROVAL of new fields, above all, when new infrastructure starts drilling oil out of the ground or sea. Let’s #StopRosebank
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Do YOU know the time & place of Shell's Christmas party?. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is having a secret leaving party this month & we want to help make it an event to be remembered. Anonymously DM us or email tipoffs.stopshell@protonmail.com. Please share to help crack the case.
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BREAKING: We just confronted Shell's Chief Energy Advisor, on his way to the World Energies Summit, and he had NOTHING to say about Shell's destruction in the Niger Delta. It is one of the most polluted places in the world because of Shell.
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🚨 BREAKING: Fossil Free London disrupt @Shell 's AGM at InterContinental O2, singing 'Shell Kills' to protest the devastation of the Niger Delta + climate breakdown at the fossil fuel giant's hands. Over 50 FFL activists are taking action at the AGM today. #ShellKills
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1 MILLION VIEWS!.
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🤯 @Shell just got worst 🤯. New CEO Wael Sawan is ditching Shell's already-awful climate targets and doubling down on oil & gas production. We have to #ShutDownShell. 🔥 Join the campaign: 🔥 Join the Shell’s HQ picket, 8-9am every weekday this month.
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BREAKING: We are back outside the Intercontinental Hotel. We are fighting for climate justice. While Oily execs and climate financers wine and dine inside this luxury hotel, we say it's time they pay for the devastation they are causing. Their profits, Our loss.#OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: a coalition of climate activists are participating in a silent demo as part of a @DefendourJuries action outside Southwark Crown Court. Phoebe and Anna were just sentenced to a combined 3 years and 8 months for throwing soup on a painting.
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BREAKING: we’re outside J P Morgan, the world’s worst bank for funding fossil fuels. Today is their Global Energy Conference . #OilyMoneyOut #DefundFossilFuels #EndFossilFinance
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BREAKING: It's day two of the Energy Intelligence Forum and we're back outside the Intercontinental hotel. Again as always the police are choosing to protect those who are making insane profits of the destruction of people and planet. Their profit, our loss. #OilyMoneyOut
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HAPPENING NOW: we are marching on the streets of London with thousands to demand a future that protects nature. No nature = No future . Join us now and march to defend humanity and to #RestoreNatureNow
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HAPPENING NOW: The largest undeveloped oil field deserves the biggest fight. Come and join us NOW, outside DESNEZ, Whitehall Place. #StopRosebank #DESNEZ
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Rishi Sunak is currently down with hundreds of fossil fuel funding bankers in The City for a banquet. So we're paying him a visit. In his kings speech this week he announced he intends to continue maxing out the North sea. #StopRosebank.#OilyMoneyOut
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HAPPENING NOW: An absolute stream of people going in & they cannot miss us…. We’re outside Barclays’ HQ this morning as the staff here have huge power to make an impact. Barclays is Europe’s worst funder of coal oil & gas. This has to stop for human survival .#DefundClimateChaos
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NOW: Five defendants including Greta Thunberg are now in UK court for protesting peacefully at Oily Money Out, our mobilisation in October against a massive oily conference in Park Lane. Greta and co-defendant arriving into court. The true criminals are not on trial today.
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Great vibes here the global mobilisation to fight fossil fuels, and end the fossil fuel age fast, fair and forever . #OilyMoneyOut #fightfossilfuels
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🚨 BREAKING: We're outside Barclays HQ this morning to host them a big thank you party. Well done Barclays for continuing to pour $10 billion a year into Shell in the face of a climate crisis. Bravo! 👏🥳🎉. We're all #BetterWithoutBarclays
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🚨BREAKING: we've joined a sit-in in Waterloo Station in solidarity with #Palestine. Join us here now! 🇵🇸. #FreePalestine #FromtheRivertotheSeaPalestineWillbeFree
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BREAKING: We sneaked into the #InternationalEnergyWeek dinner - networking event for climate criminal companies. Our house is on fire and we took the struggle to the arsonists. Join a welcome talk and see you next time. Filmed on Thursday 2nd March
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Spotted on the London Underground!. 'This may be the coldest summer of the rest of your life. You're welcome.'. Today, Barclays' H1 results, we'll find out how much the bank's made recently from gambling away the only liveable planet we have. #DefundClimateChaos #Barclays
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🔥 PROTEST SHELL’S AGM🔥. Shell will be celebrating record breaking annual profits of over $40 billion with their shareholders. Tuesday 23rd outside the London ExCel Centre 9am. 📢📢 #ShutDownShell
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HAPPENING NOW:. We're outside DESNEZ to protest the climate-wrecking oil field Rosebank. Approval delayed for now - time to keep the pressure on!. #StopRosebank
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BREAKING: What if BP decided to stop the drilling and compensate affected communities at their Annual General Meeting instead of to give their CEO a £10mn bonus?. We disrupted them today to call for just that. This is self defence. Stop the drilling! . #PayUp4LossAndDamage
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BREAKING: We've joined the climate bloc of the Stop Tommy Robinson national demo, to stand up against racism, islamophobia and antisemitism. One struggle, one fight!. Climate justice = Human Rights
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BREAKING: We just now disrupted the Barclays AGM to stop the worst fossil fuel funder in Europe from destroying our future. To be or not to be - that is the climate question. Don’t shuffle us off this mortal coil.Barclays keep it in the soil! #BarclaysAGMChaos
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🚨BREAKING: We're blocking the doors of @TotalEnergies to demand they #StopEacop. At the same time, @money_rebellion, @XRebellionUK & @CClimateAction are occupying the offices of three insurance companies who haven't ruled out insuring of the giant oil pipeline. #oilymoneyout
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BREAKING: @axe_drax have just disrupted the @DraxGroup AGM! Amazing action! . 🔥Drax is the world's biggest tree burner & the biggest carbon emitter in the UK. 🔥Drax costs us billions in public money. 🔥Drax is devastating communities with lethal pollution. Time to #AxeDrax
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NEW: We crashed a panel discussion where Shell was talking up their greenwashing 'carbon capture' plans. If we want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to stop all new oil and gas projects. #shutdownshell
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ROSEBANK WILL KILL US!!!. After a die-in at Marble Arch, we are continuing the march to Equinor. #StopRosebank
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🚨BREAKING: @GretaThunberg and two fellow climate activist give a statement, after day one in court. 26 climate activists were arrested for peacefully protestinh outside the Oil and Money conference. #OilyMoneyOut
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🚨 BREAKING: we cut through the silence!. We just disrupted the silent ceremony at the City of London for the Lord Mayor. Some of the biggest names in UK business and politics were there. And we had a simple message:. Climate breakdown is made in London. #EndFossilFinance
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The last march of #TheBigOne . What an inspiring weekend. Thousands of conversations. Dozens of media reports. Tens of thousands of people showing up and joining in. Climate action is the people’s will. The justice movement stands together. #UniteToSurvive
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We’ve got a clear message for the @bankofengland and Mark Carney. It’s time stop funding climate breakdown and starting funding a green transitions. This is an emergency. Time to act like it. @peopleandplanet @FossilFree_UK @ukycc @Strike4Youth @ExtinctionR
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We stand in solidarity with the Just Stop Oil supporters who have just received unprecedentedly long sentences for planning peaceful protest . We will continue to tell the truth and act as if the truth is real. We are all in grave danger. So we must take action for our lives.
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BREAKING: we’re outside fossil fuel mega bank Barclays today in a silent marking of their complicity in genocide 🕯️ . Barclays owns shares worth over £1.3bn in companies that equip Israel with weapons used against Palestinians . #FreePalestine #BetterWithoutBarclays #CeasefireNow
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Breaking: We're covering two doors. Shame on BP. No climate justice without Palestinian justice. #CeasefireNOW .#FreePalestine .#OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: We just disrupted high level BlackRock investor, Mr Evy Hambro at London's Mines and Money Conference. Stop BlackRock and their profiteering from climate chaos.
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MARCH HAS BEGUN:. We're heading to Equinor's HQ - the oil giant being handed tax payers money to burn our future. Come and join us. #StopRosebank
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VERDICT ON MASSIVE OIL FIELD ROSEBANK IS IN. And we won! 🎉🥳🎉 it’s unlawful!. Join us celebrate & demand the end to new UK oil and gas for a better future for all of us tonight at 6pm, outside the Norwegian Embassy where we’ll tell Norway owned company Equinor: no appeal!👩⚖️
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BREAKING: We delivered a gift to the Norwegian Embassy. If approved, Rosebank would cost us £3.75 billion in public money. Billions in tax breaks for climate time-bomb, that will do nothing to lower energy bills. Join us to resist Rosebank: #StopRosebank
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BREAKING: We got inside the Intercontinental Hotel to attempt to disrupt the Oil and Money Conference being held in this luxury 5 star hotel. While they roll in the luxury and sip champagne, people are pushed into poverty and hit by loss and damage. #OilyMoneyOut
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🌹ROSEBANK DEMO. The biggest untapped oil field in the North Sea got approved. It’s a climate catastrophe & Norwegian oil giant Equinor could get billions in public money for it. We must #StopRosebank. 📍Whitehall Pl. Sat 12:00.🇳🇴March to Norway Embassy.➡️
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Breaking: We're outside the UAE embassy to protest the new revelation that COP28 president Al Jaber has been using his position to lobby for new oil and gas. #OilyMoneyOut out of COP28
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BREAKING: WE GOT HIM! . We confronted Shell’s chair of the board Andrew Mackenzie outside Shell’s HQ this morning where he had a meeting today. Shell stays silent. They have no answers. They just run away. They’ve poisoned the Niger Delta’s land, water & people. CLEAN IT UP!
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🚨 BREAKING: We confronted Equinor Vice President Eirik Wærness over Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a carbon bomb that will drive us closer to climate collapse - yet our government wants to give @Equinor billions in public money to develop it. This is madness. #StopRosebank
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BREAKING: we just disrupted the Norway & UK Business Summit in Kensington. Don’t make a deal on climate collapse . Don’t lock us into fossil fuels we cannot afford, volatile bills & collapsing life support systems. You must #StopRosebank . #energytransition @Equinor
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BREAKING: Long queues forming outside the side entrance of J P Morgan @chase_uk, the world's worst funder of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement. #MakePollutersPay.#OilyMoneyOut
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BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion and Fossil Free London block the front of Shell’s HQ to say . SHELL NOT WELCOME IN LONDON, not here not anywhere . on the day shareholders vote whether to move their global HQ to our city 🌆 . #shellmustfall @shellslies @shellmustfall @XRebellionUK
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BREAKING: We're outside Parliament with @juststop_oil and @XRebellionUK protesting the deadly Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill. New oil and gas threatens our energy security and our lives. #oilybillout
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The People’s Picket outside the Shell HQ for #TheBigOne . Stop new oil! Stop new gas! . It us or the hydrocarbons. Humanity hangs in the balance. #ShutDownShell #climateprotest
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BREAKING: We're outside the secret leaving party of Shell CEO Ben Van Beurden to say good riddance. In the 39 years he's been at Shell it has actively covered up the climate crisis, violated human rights including our right to survive & continued to drill for oil #StopJackdaw
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BANNER DROP🫳. We all want safety, and a future we can look forward to. So when MPs came back from recess yesterday we were there on Westminster Bridge to make our voices heard. We're making sure oil and gas are on the agenda. Join us to #StopRosebank
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Angela Rayner just approved the expansion of the London City airport. We called it out on ITV news last night. London is the MOST exposed city in the world to aviation pollution and this wealthy airport for luxury travel needs to be reduced not expanded!
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