Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
The premiership rugby final was disrupted in May so I don’t think rugby is particularly a problem to JSO
Just Stop Oil
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sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Thank you, it's the least i can do
T & P
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Very clever protest today that partly used the AELTC's own (jigsaw) merch; they didn't even have to carry it in, just bought the tat there.
Non-violent, non-damaging, inconvenient and gets the pics in the news.
Whereas some people are never going to lije them for this, yes, this is definitely a much more clever and less controversial target for a protest.
T & P
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Yeah, I can imagine the usual newspaper suspects would have devoted far more angry column inches than usual to express their outrage if she’d been winning prior to the stunt, and ended up losing afterwards.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
You’re more of a traditional orange powder sort, then?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
It isn't so much that, rather that Wimbledon isn't renown as a supporter of oil so I don't really see that it is a fair target for just stop oil. Sure they got their reference on the national news but I think their actions will have alienated people.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I think you’ve answered your own question, there.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Sure, but why not mass protest at an oil refinery?
Wimbledon isn't a relevant target.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
It’s so relevant that you’re posting about it; doubt you’d have been doing so about a dozen orange jackets outside a refinery being ignored by the media.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Ii accept you have a point there
Still don't like their tactics, and in fact perhaps I just don't agree with just stop oil. We have to wean ourselves off oil over a period of time. Just stopping would be a disaster.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Ii accept you have a point there
Still don't like their tactics, and in fact perhaps I just don't agree with just stop oil. We have to wean ourselves off oil over a period of time. Just stopping would be a disaster.
How about if we wean ourselves off using the existing reserves of fossil fuels we already use or know are there, but we don't go out looking for any new ones?
pug
Well-Known Member
Its international news, part of the point of picking these events, the cricket incident story was well covered amongst all cricketing nations and as climate change is a global problem that's a good thing, it will lead to some difficult embarrassments for our politicians as well as encourage people to take action in their own countries knowing that they are not alone in this struggle.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Looks like you've also explained your motivation for posting about their tactics.Ii accept you have a point there
Still don't like their tactics, and in fact perhaps I just don't agree with just stop oil. We have to wean ourselves off oil over a period of time. Just stopping would be a disaster.
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
There's literally reports saying we're totally absolutely irreversibly fucked like now and we're still oscillating between governments rowing back on the piecemeal commitments they already made and having a go at people for interrupting the hallowed snooker / cricket / tennis tournament.
I have always said that we're a fucking stupid species that will do nothing to avoid the looming disaster that we've known about for at least forty fucking years but jesus christ, we're failing to reach even that low bar.
I have always said that we're a fucking stupid species that will do nothing to avoid the looming disaster that we've known about for at least forty fucking years but jesus christ, we're failing to reach even that low bar.
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
No one has made this point and counter point over the last 41 pages. No one.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Welcome to the murky world of swingeing injunctions imposing extraordinary penalties.
Oil firms secure injunctions to stop UK climate protests
Three firms involved in Britain's oil sector, including ExxonMobil, have secured injunctions to stop protests by climate change activists which have caused widespread disruption this month, the government said on Friday.
(though in this case, as has been said many times in the thread, they're more likely working on the grounds of spectacle, which tends not to be so impressive with a refinery action - see Greenpeace's many visually spectacular disruptions to offshore platforms which barely make for a picture story most of the time).
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Was just about to post the same
8ball
Decolonise colons!
People may whine about JSO being so middle-class, but at least they won’t be able to stop them by pricing them out of the gift shop tat.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
ole starms when confronted by climate bods asking whose side labour is on 'We're on the side of economic growth'. Zinger, put it on the leaflets. In the same way Stockton Rush was on the side of innovation but physics won anyway
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
We've had decades to wean ourselves off. But haven't. We've run out of time now. Hence JSO.Ii accept you have a point there
Still don't like their tactics, and in fact perhaps I just don't agree with just stop oil. We have to wean ourselves off oil over a period of time. Just stopping would be a disaster.
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
fucking idiot.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh maybe they should start whacking oil company execs - and take a trip to Vienna, a leaf out Carlos the jackal's bookIi accept you have a point there
Still don't like their tactics, and in fact perhaps I just don't agree with just stop oil. We have to wean ourselves off oil over a period of time. Just stopping would be a disaster.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
And maybe he could try thinking tootry reading the thread weltweit
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
Any protest against that bastard Starmer fine by me: he has expelled socialists and conducted a Stalinesque regime of suppressing dissent. So critiquing him by vigorous demonstration is highly apposite.
gosub
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What's wrong with dog tracks? Or given the carbon footprint Ayia Napa
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