5 privileged thrill-seeking men pay £200k to view a sunken boat; navy, air force, coast guard, state air guard rescue, front page news
500 desperate safety-seeking people pay everything they have to risk a sunken boat; 100 kids dead, no rescue, news silent
Humanity is wrecked.
Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to
#InsulateBritain
Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers
#CivilResistance
works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022
Incredible 😃
10,000 people currently blocking the
#A12
motorway at
#TheHague
Netherlands 🙌👏
Police using water cannons & arrests but protestors plan to stay because we MUST
#EndFossilFuels
🌍🔥
Come on the UK- where are you?
Mozart on the M25 🎻🛣️?
#NoNewOil
@NLRebellion
This week I slow-marched with
@JustStop_Oil
Why?
For love 🖤
Love for the natural world
Love for my nieces who face a future of water & food shortage, violence & civil unrest
So the question is why aren’t YOU taking action for what you love?
The Science is clear 🧑🏼🔬
Act Now
We’re on a tiny planet- the only known one with life
That planet is in a cooker
1 species amongst millions has its finger on the temperature dial
Yet that species focuses on killing its own individuals based on imaginary men in the clouds
It’s insane
Emma was taken St Thomas Hospital yesterday evening as concerns for her health were too much for the custody suite to deal with. She didn’t want to waste any hospital resources and agreed to take a rehydration treatment immediately, she was then quickly assessed by a doctor…
Incredible scenes on the
#A12
today
They water cannon scientists
They seize the instruments of musicians
But the truth cannot be silenced ❤️🔥
Solidarity with
@NLRebellion
& everyone fighting for a liveable future on the
#A12
- day 8✊
#EndFossilFuelFinance
#ClimateBreakdown
Today 8 more climate protestors were jailed in the UK
That’s 12 peaceful environmental defenders in British prisons
Their crimes?
Trying to prevent this 👇
#OilKills
It’s Louis’ 22nd birthday
A young person, terrified for their future in a
#ClimateCrisis
He’s in prison today (7 months on remand) demanding a “liveable future” from
@10DowningStreet
He has “no regrets”
He was on the right side of history, even at 2 yrs old ❤️🔥
I’ve spent the last few years full-time in climate activism, been to prison for 2 months & just been released from 4 days in custody
What can you do? Head to Marble Arch RIGHT NOW & join the incredible people stepping up ✊
People have power- JOIN US ❤️🔥
#ClimateCrisis
#ActNow
🚨 IT'S HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Giant banner hung from
#MarbleArch
END FOSSIL FUELS NOW while the police close in to kettle a limo 😳
But we rebels are here to stay!
I’m appalled & angry that my friend Phoebe
@ziggystardyke
has been imprisoned for 6 months for peacefully marching to
#JustStopOil
A true hero ❤️🔥
When will the REAL criminals be held to account for their role in
#ClimateBreakdown
?
MARCH this Saturday 👉
⛓️ PHOEBE PLUMMER GIVEN 6 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR MARCHING
🧡 Phoebe, 22, has just been remanded to prison until 16.05.2024. Their crime? Marching in protest against new oil and gas.
🧑⚖️ Phoebe is one of six Just Stop Oil supporters imprisoned in the last 14 days. When asked by
Emma was arrested on Wednesday and is currently being held in custody indefinitely until she is taken to court for a minor criminal damage charge (gluing to a window of
@beisgovuk
). Whilst her
@ScientistsX
colleagues were released with bail conditions, she has been refused bail
🗣️ CALLING ALL UK SCIENTISTS 🧑🔬
On Mon Sep 4 Scientists will welcome MPs back to Parliament with a clear msg- No New Oil ✖️
Science is our discipline
Action is our duty
PLEASE JOIN US 🥼✊
Sign up here:
#TheOilPartyIsOver
#NoNewOil
Flying insect numbers have plunged by 60% since 2004
If they die, we die 🪰💀
This is the earth warning us of an approaching apocalypse
We are facing catastrophic collapse of life (that's us too... not just bugs!)
#ActNow
@XRebellionUK
3 years ago
@InsulateLove
took action to protect vulnerable people from cold, damp homes
If only every person outraged by
#WinterFuelPayments
had supported our 2021 demand to
#InsulateBritain
Stop getting angry at peaceful protesters
Listen to them
Support them
Join them
Morning
@wessexwater
👋
I’m not paying you for sh*t in our seas
💩 21,878 sewage dumps in Dorset
💩 129,957 hours last year
🤑 £70.6 Million to shareholders
So you won’t miss the £68.65 sewerage charges which I’ve withheld from my bill
#DontPay4DirtyWater
#BoycottWaterBills
I’m in court today with 8 other scientists charged with criminal damage to a govt dept currently licensing new oil & gas
‘Damage’ doesn’t even begin to describe
@beisgovuk
decision- it’s a death sentence 💀
Our govt have failed
Will our justice system fail too?
@XRebellionUK
Why we glued ourselves to a gov’t department
In a choice between fossil fuels & a liveable planet, the gov’t has chosen oil & gas
The reason is simple: governments don’t respond to science, but to business that invests in political donations & lobbying
Thrilled to be re-united with Dr Diana who was held in custody for 48 hrs by
@metpoliceuk
for breaking bail to attend my court hearing
Case dismissed- judge said it was “not in the public interest” to detain a retired GP 🙄🤦🏼
@InsulateLove
@XRebellionUK
@DoctorsXr
#NoPasaran
I've done everything I can to continue shining a light on the climate crisis whilst in prison. I've been busy writing letters to celebrities, personally I think more celebrities need to use their platforms to speak the truth about the climate crisis. retweet and tag a celebrity.
Over 99% of scientists agree that humans are causing climate change
One human
@RishiSunak
today announced the approval of 100 new oil & gas licenses
That is the approval of a death sentence, based not on science, but on power, greed & ballot box’s 🗳️
1. Faces of peaceful climate protest
They follow the science
Motivated by love
In prison right now
2. Faces of violent racist protest
They follow social media misinformation
Motivated by hate
On our streets right now
To protect children, target the real threat
#ClimateBreakdown
A recent exchange I had with an arresting police officer;
PC: "You're never going to win"
Me: "Do you like Star Wars? Because right now you're the disposable Storm Trooper led by a Sith lord & I'm Hans Solo. Who do you *want* to win?"
PC: Crestfallen silence
#RebelAlliance
On Boxing Day we join those in opposition to
#foxhunting
In solidarity with hunt sabs & monitors- trail hunting is a lie & we must
#keeptheban
& end trail hunting
Here in Dorset, the South Dorset Hunt continue to illegally hunt & persecute wildlife
Fox hunting must end 🦊
We had the warmest New Years Day on record.
New Years Resolutions are not enough.
We need a New Year Revolution.
Individual change is not enough.
We need system change.
The scientific community have been trying to communicate the severity and urgency of this crisis for years. NASA scientist Peter Kalmus
@ClimateHuman
fully supports and endorses Emma’s Actions.
A momentous day as
@GretaThunberg
marks her final school strike with
@Fridays4future
I was fortunate to join a strike in Stockholm last year- a true inspiration to myself & so many in the climate movement ❤️🔥
Thank you- we continue the fight ✊
#ClimateCrisis
We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically “school striking”. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.
I have two more nights left in prison. I've taken many risks; my freedom, relationships, my career... to speak out against climate inaction. Now it's time for celebrities to take some risks and step-up, use their platforms and speak-out. Retweet and tag a celebrity.
’26 years of Cop have shown that they have been hopelessly inadequate’
Just Stop Oil’s Phoebe Plummer says the UK government is betraying young people by allowing new oil and gas licences to go ahead
#Newsnight
These are the faces of heroes
Lucia, Lou, Cressie, Dan & Roger
Good, honest, dedicated people who told the truth & refused to sit by while our world hurtles towards catastrophic
#ClimateBreakdown
We call on the
@attorneygeneral
to act with the same integrity
#WholeTruth5
✊
Those risking arrest & imprisonment under your authoritarian
#PublicOrderBill
show more truth & integrity than every coward around that table combined
One day it will be you in the dock for failing to act in the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced
That is the real crime
This afternoon I met police chiefs to make it clear that they have my full support in acting decisively to clamp down on illegal protests.
The public have had enough of this disruption and those breaking the law should expect to feel the full force of it.
#PublicOrderBill
BREAKING: Today, 240 people at 24 courts hold the same sign as
#TrudiWarner
- a retired social worker threatened with PRISON for holding a placard about the rights of jurors🪧
Juries put the moral sense of ordinary people into the justice system- we must
#DefendOurJuries
3. THE GOVERNMENT'S VIOLENCE BACKFIRES as public and civil society unite in opposition
Today, 240 people at 24 courts across England and Wales risk prison by holding the same sign as Trudi, while legal and health professionals rally round
#DefendOurJuries
Riz is a friend of mine; he is one of the most kind, caring, selfless people I have ever met- he is always there with a smile & a hug when I'm in court 🤗
He is a volunteer member of the City of Westminster’s Night Safety team
At 2am he was arrested & held by
@metpoliceuk
The UK justice system has two choices;
1. Continue to criminalise & imprison ordinary people
2. Carry out their fundamental duty to protect citizens by holding those responsible for climate inaction to account
We must continue
#CivilResistance
in the courts
#ClimateJustice
Emma Smart, an Ecologist, is refusing to cooperate with a
@JudiciaryUK
which is complicit in
@10DowningStreet
criminality.
An arrest warrant is likely to be issued
The court's are now a site of nonviolent civil resistance. We will
#Resist
this immoral system
"I think it's very worrying that we lock people up that are actually trying to make sure that we have some kind of future"
"The only demonstrations that really work are disruptive ones"
Thank you
@GaryLineker
💥👏
"The only demonstrations that really work are disruptive ones."
@GaryLineker
believes disruptive climate protesters could be considered "heroes" if the world takes action against the climate crisis, and says "it's very worrying" people are being arrested for protesting.
This is not ‘climate change’ where you get a better tan 😎
This is ‘climate breakdown’ where it’s so hot birds are falling out of the sky and human bodies lose the ability to cool through sweating 💀
It’s
#HappeningNow
🌍🔥
We need to
#ActNow
@XRebellionUK
@ExtinctionR
Why are our media still using the term
#ClimateChange
🏖
What we are experiencing is
#ClimateBreakdown
💀
When things break down, we must rise up ✊
41 degrees is time to join the wave of civil resistance that can put this fire out 🌊 🔥
JOIN
@XRebellionUK
@JustStop_Oil
Beyond grateful to see a sunrise this morning unobscured by bars & razor wire. Many are less fortunate.
Nature is in our hands 🌍
We must not stop fighting in these many crises.
They can’t arrest us all.
They can’t imprison us all.
JOIN
@JustStop_Oil
@XRebellionUK
Venetia Carter, 57, a tutor from Brighton sentenced to 2 weeks in prison for writing ‘INSULATE BRITAIN’ on Crawley Court wall in washable chalk spray paint
Chalk paint. Prison. Writing a message for the thousands dying in
#FuelPoverty
Criminal or Hero?
'Justice' system?
Police are attacking scientists with water canons
Scientists peacefully taking action demanding the Dutch govt stop spending billions subsidising fossil fuels 💀
The time for fence-sitting is over
If you're not on the streets in a
#ClimateCrisis
, you're holding the water canon
Scientists and academics are being attacked by water canons for peacefully demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies, which are unacceptable in a climate emergency.
@VVD
@cdavandaag
@christenunie
@D66
, is this the signal you want to send to the world?
In response to climate activists from
@Renovate_CH
Conductor Vladimir Jurowski
@kklluzern
told an audience: "Stop! Let them talk! Please. And then we'll play our symphony, otherwise I'll leave the stage now."
The
#ClimateCrisis
isn’t a sweet symphony but needs to be heard 🎻🌍🔥
My incredible friend Bella ❤️🔥
Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my broken heart on behalf of my nieces Ivy & Daisy 💔
If only our leaders at
#COP27
had a fraction of your courage, dedication & passion
I am in awe of the determined bravery of all
@JustStop_Oil
supporters
Isabel Rock, 41, has a message for her nephew.
“I’m doing this for my baby nephew and his unborn sister. I want them to have a chance at a future. The government is responsible for criminal inaction on the climate crisis. They should be in prison."
#ClimateChange
#ClimateAction
Today, I walked out of Bronzefield prison. It is lovely to have the sun on my face - I've not had it on me for a few weeks. I’ll continue to fight for climate justice. Stormzy are you with me?
#CelebritiesStepUp
#TurnTheTide
#ClimateCrisis
This is just *some* of the civil injunction paperwork I’ve received for peaceful environmental protest
I was given 4 months in prison for breaking a CIVIL INJUNCTION
Prison, seizing assets, unlimited fines & costs- this is the new weapon of the polluting elite
#RightToProtest
Today 2 people sat on thrones draped in robes, regalia & jewels
While ~50 people sat on police custody beds simply for exercising their right to peaceful protest
Celebrate the latter; they actually care about you, your family & your future
#DefendDissent
#Coronation
💥 BREAKING 💥
Chris Packham legal challenge to Prime Minister over Net Zero 🌍
“The Prime Minister is playing populist politics with the future of life on Earth. Immoral, unethical and, we believe, illegal.”
@ChrisGPackham
He has 7 days to respond ⌛️
#Suenak
#ClimateCrisis
Today I can share I'm challenging the PM on the legality of abandoning key Net Zero commitments
I believe the timeline for the UK to meet Net Zero cannot be changed at will by the PM – I contend that he does not have the legal right
The ball is in your court , Prime Minister
There are currently 50 of us on trial for ‘public nuisance’ for
#InsulateBritain
The judge has banned us from using ‘climate crisis’, ‘fuel poverty’ in our defence to the jury
David now faces prison for simply telling the truth about why he took action
"The govt is currently spending £78 billion in subsidising peoples energy bills...
but for £8 billion it could insulate the 8 million homes most in need; greatly cutting bills AND cutting our emissions"
The brilliant truth-telling of
@GeorgeMonbiot
on
#bbcqt
#InsulateBritain
Johnny Mercer, "Extraordinary progress on climate change has been made under this Conservative government"
George Monbiot, "No, extraordinary progress has not been made under this government. It has deliberately trashed some of the progress even that was made under Boris
Imagine how people will react when there’s no food on the shelves
The
#CostOfLivingCrisis
&
#ClimateCrisis
are both failures of our govt
Start being angry at our ‘leaders’, not ordinary, peaceful people who stand up to them
JOIN
@JustStop_Oil
11am, Westminster, every day
I am a scientist who dared tell the truth about government failure in this
#ClimateCrisis
@KwasiKwarteng
is expanding oil & gas despite the
@UN
calling this "economic and moral madness"
There is currently a warrant out for my arrest
Who are the real criminals?
@ClimateHuman
Volunteer officers are being equipped with stun guns, and stop and search is being ramped up.
But it's not street crime that's rising.
It's white collar crime and fraud.
Which is hardly surprising, as the Conservatives have destroyed the system that detected and prosecuted it.
What the govt are doing is an act of murder
What Louise is doing is an act of self-defence
The time for sitting on the fence is over
It's life or death
It's now or never
I choose life. I choose now. I support Louise.
#JustStopOil
#FreeLouis
#FreeJosh
🦺 Louise, 24: “I'm here because I don't have a future. You might hate me for doing this, but I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our Government. They are betraying young people like me — I wouldn't have to be here if they did their duty.”
#FreeLouis
#FreeJosh
“
@JustStop_Oil
[slow marching] might make someone late for a funeral, but there are 10,000 funerals going on in Libya at the moment after a flood partly caused by climate change.”
@ChrisGPackham
“Is it Time to Break the Law?”
Part of evidence against me in court today was that a horse had mild dehydration stuck in a 1 hour traffic jam
I told the court that I was glad the horse was OK, unlike the 8,500 people who died in cold, damp homes this winter
This is not justice
@InsulateLove
@XRebellionUK
I remember listening to
@grantshapps
say it was "excellent news" I was in prison for climate action with
@InsulateLove
Now there is increasing “legal risk” facing him for failing to act on the
#ClimateCrisis
I look forward to returning the sentiment
My niece Daisy (6), finished school for the day, got changed, on the bus & heading to
#DowningStreet
to support
@XRebellionUK
&
@JustStop_Oil
That's a superhero ✊
We can all show our support & solidarity this weekend
TOMORROW 👉 Tate Modern 11am
SUN 👉 Marble Arch 10am
Today I am grieving
For the lost opportunity that hundreds of world leaders, thousands of police & military, millions of people, weeks of news coverage
… did not act with this urgency to save the lives of future generations
Today is historic humanity failure
#ClimateCrisis
Tez Burns, 34, Bicycle Mechanic from Swansea with
@JustStop_Oil
Day 7 of hunger strike in prison demanding
@10DowningStreet
end licenses for new oil and gas in the North Sea and
#JustStopOil
"Championing local communities in West Dorset" until constituents question sewage pollution- then MP
@chrisloder
sends police to their homes
Intimidation of those simply questioning the state of Dorset rivers?
@Feargal_Sharkey
@GeorgeMonbiot
@Dorsetecho
I believe nonviolent civil resistance is the only way to enact the rapid change we desperately need in such extreme times of climate breakdown. It's hard to do that from prison where I'm currently serving a 4 month sentence for peaceful protest so I've been busy writing letters!
"If the climate activists warning of the gravest threat humanity has yet faced are silenced into 2024, we all may find ourselves paying an intolerable price"-
@OwenJones84
The govts response to an escalating
#ClimateCrisis
is to 'shoot the messenger'
In
@RishiSunak
’s inbox today from
@theCCCuk
;
“Our children will not forgive us if we leave them a world of withering heat & devastating storms where sea level rises & extreme temperatures force millions to move...
None of us can avoid our responsibility.
Delay is not an option”
In awe of my dear friend Revd Mark
@hellomarkC
for his continued civil resistance in this
#ClimateCrisis
“It’s non-violent, but it is disruptive because we need to wake up, we need to change the path we are on. True love is telling people the truth.”
It's 2 weeks since I walked 'free' from prison.
Free from confinement but not free from the inaction of our ecocidal government.
Certainly not free from my duty to tell the truth and act on it... which I will continue to do.
In a climate crisis none of us are free.
#ActNow
"You can shove your court order up your arse!"
Management should take heed: you can threaten us with expulsion and injunctions without speaking to us but, you might find it doesn't have the effect you wanted...
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!
Today is 2 years since myself & 8 other ordinary people went to prison demanding the govt
#InsulateBritain
All 9 of us continue to act; for the lives of people in this country, across the globe, & future generations
‼️ Now is the time for EVERYONE to step up
#ClimateActionNow
🐟 NOT GUILTY 🐟
A win for ordinary people speaking out in an
#AttackOnNature
Our oceans are not a tasting menu!
This is justice for peaceful protest & for the billions of marine animals killed each year
Celebrate our
#WildIsles
by conserving nature, not consuming it 🦀 🦞
Scientists spend a 2nd night occupying the
@sciencemuseum
over their fossil fuel ties 🧑🔬✊
The Museum CLOSED the "Energy Revolution" gallery to the public to prevent them hearing the truth from Scientists 🙉
So PLEASE RT
@ThierryAaron
& demand they cut ties with
@AdaniOnline
We’re about to settle in for our second night occupying the
@sciencemuseum
’s new “Energy Revolution” gallery, in protest against the museums continued ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Here’s an update from inside the museum from
@ThierryAaron
Peaceful protestors should not be in prison- but inside we’ve seen further gross injustices of govt societal failure
To be imprisoned indefinitely (as 2,892 people currently are) is torture
Thank you
@GeorgeMonbiot
for being a voice of the forgotten 🖤
Rivers are drying up in Europe, China is baking in unprecedented heatwaves, flash flooding deaths in Pakistan & India...
The question isn't "why are 19 people blocking motorways...
... it's why are 190 or 1,900 people NOT blocking motorways"
Join
@JustStop_Oil
#ClimateCrisis
UPDATE: 19 people arrested this morning for sabotage, including several non-Swedes, people below 20, and at least 2 photographers with press passes. All for wanting to save all living beings from climate collapse 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮
#letztegeneration
#A22Network
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
Here at Poole Magistrate Court charged with a ‘dispersal order’ for approaching David Attenborough & the BBC
#WildIsles
film crew as they dined on ‘sustainable seafood’ in a high-end restaurant
The bottom line is, eating animals & fish is neither ethical or sustainable
This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice.
"As a mum the
#ClimateCrisis
is top of my agenda, I'm constantly looking at how much I can recycle"
"We're heading for civilisation collapse- you, your child & everyone you love is in grave danger- we need adults who can lead"
Thank you
@ClareTotty
eloquent & spot-on as ever ❤️🔥
PLEASE WATCH
@Channel4
9pm Wed
@ChrisGPackham
“Is it Time to Break the Law?”
Is it ethically acceptable to break the law, to protest against government policies at a time of
#ClimateCrisis
?
Is law-breaking justified to take urgent, vital action to avoid
#ClimateBreakdown
?
From Louis;
#BonfireNight
is a time to remember those who sacrificed everything to bring about change 🔥
Some methods were agreeable, some weren’t, but they all knew that change doesn’t happen unless we
#StepUp
So let’s step up- while we still can ���️🔥
#FreeLouis
#JustStopOil
Politics is dominated by the dirtiest & most anti-social companies 🏭😈
They pollute, treat workers like shit, exploit consumers & dump their costs onto society… & are trying to buy the
#GeneralElection
💷🗳️
A must-watch from
@DoubleDownNews
with
@GeorgeMonbiot
A short film about why the dirtiest and most antisocial economic interests dominate our politics. I believe it's the key to understanding the terrible state we're in.
This is beautiful ❤️🔥
This. This is what we can achieve if we unite in
#PeoplePower
against this vile, authoritarian government ✊
Following an illegal immigration raid in Peckham, hundreds of protestors gathered to stop the
@metpoliceuk
taking their neighbour away
They won 🖤
Great to be one of thousands of people on
#Dartmoor
today in one of the biggest land justice protests in British history ✊
If we lose our
#RightToRoam
, we disconnect from the very nature that we need to survive
(also a pleasure to roam with some ace friends 💚)
#raisecrockern
"The
@UN
has said we're heading for 3° of heating
There's no way we'll have an ordered civil society under those conditions
By allowing this to continue our politicians are committing genocide
The
@metpoliceuk
should be arresting those responsible for genocide"
#JustStopOil
💬 "Yesterday the UN [said] we were heading for 3 degrees of heating. There is no way we will have an ordered civil society under those conditions."
🚔 We will not comply until
@metpoliceuk
charge the climate criminals.
🦺 March with us every day, 12pm —
Horrendous behaviour from German police using pain compliance on non-violent protestors 😡
Inverting wrists when these people are showing no aggression or resistance must be excessive & disproportionate (& unlawful!)
Please support
@AufstandLastGen
- love & power to you ❤️🔥
"I cannot & will not stop.
With knowledge & privilege comes duty & responsibility, we all have that.
The choice is whether we act on it or not. I choose to act"
Article on arrest with
@ScientistsX
& dry strike in
@Dazed
@ScientistRebel1
@XRebellionUK
Green carpet, green dress,
#greenwash
William just inherited Duchy of Cornwall land= income £21m a year
#EarthShotPrize
winners combined total= £5m a year
To "protect & restore nature" start with your 74,000 football pitches of land, only 6% of which is woodland
#Earthshot