Climate collapse made this winter the wettest in 130 years.1 We paid the price in flooded homes and fields, lives lost and millions of crops destroyed.
But it doesn’t get better when the rain stops.
Last week, the Environment Agency quietly released a report saying the UK will only have 65% of the drinking water we need by 2050.2
Despite the alarming news, we got no comment from our leaders. They’ve got no plan for when our taps run dry. Whether our next government is Labour or Tory, we’re getting more oil to speed up the collapse.
This summer, when the temperature climbs and hosepipe bans kick in, we will go to airports with our biggest actions yet.
We will make climate collapse impossible to ignore and we will turn up the pressure on the criminals failing to protect us.
Want to contribute? Come to our next online strategy meeting tomorrow at 7pm to get the plan and get involved.
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, membro della Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo e membro del movimento ambientalista Ultima Generazione A22 Network per contrastare il Riscaldamento Globale indotto artificialmente
Just Stop Oil students are calling on all University Vice Chancellors in the UK to read this open letter, and then sign the ultimatum that we’ve included below so that we may send it on to Rishi Sunak and Gillian Keegan. New oil and gas are genocide, and students are demanding that their universities do not continue being complicit.
Dear Vice Chancellors,
We are the student wing of Just Stop Oil. We are writing to you because we are disgusted by your failure to act to stop mass murder being committed by the UK government as it plans to “max out” the UK’s oil and gas reserves.
On 15th September the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, wrote a letter urging you to warn your students of the consequences that engaging in civil resistance could have for their futures. This letter urges you to face up to the far worse consequences coming down the line as a result of the government’s genocidal policies.
Paper after academic paper spells out the annihilation that we now face: hundreds of millions starving to death, billions of people being forced to leave their homes. Students and young people face a future of global economic collapse, war, and social breakdown.
You are complicit in this genocide. By partnering with fossil fuel companies, undertaking research for industrial agriculture, auto, aviation and defence industries, and sending delegates to useless COP conferences, your universities give the government and carbon corporations the veneer of respectability, and the social licence to carry on their project of mass death. You have failed to speak the truth about what is happening, and you have utterly failed to uphold the duty of care you have for your students.
Contrast your cowardice with what happened in Norway, in 1942. Ten thousand teachers went on strike in resistance to the occupying Nazi regime. One thousand were rounded up and imprisoned, many sent to concentration camps, but they refused to comply. The resistance movement wrote in a pamphlet: “The calling of the teacher is not only to give them knowledge but also teach them to believe and strive for what’s true and right. Therefore they cannot, without failing their calling, teach what contradicts their conscience”.
They knew that there are lines no government must ever cross.
Now comes your moment to stand up against evil. It is time for you to put your head above the parapet and publicly announce that the government’s policies are criminal and condemn the next generation to obliteration. It is time for you to tell the truth, that new oil and gas means the end of everything. It is time for you to engage in civil resistance.
In November, thousands of students will be arrested for marching in London. Many may be imprisoned. We demand that you sign the attached letter* which gives the government a clear ultimatum: either they stop new oil and gas licences, or you will be duty bound to join your students in slow marches across London to the point that you too will be arrested and imprisoned.
If you do not sign and return the attached letter by Friday 22nd September, students will have no choice but to bring a wave of civil disobedience to their campuses.
It is time for you to pick a side. Either you side with the government, and the education secretary who is responsible for allowing the UK’s places of education to physically crumble into disrepair – or you side with your students as they take action to protect their lives and their futures.
You knew this moment was coming. We will not be complicit. Will you?
Yours sincerely,
JUST STOP OIL STUDENTS
ULTIMATUM LETTER LINKED HERE AND AVAILABLE AS PDF BELOW – SIGN AND RETURN TO JSOSTUDENTS@PROTONMAIL.COM AND JUSTSTOPOILPRESS@PROTONMAIL.COM
Other ways to support:
Contribute to our fundraiser to help transport and accommodate students taking action in London:
Dott. Alessio Brancaccio, tecnico ambientale Università di L’Aquila, membro partecipante ordinario Fondazione Michele Scarponi Onlus, ideologo ed attivista del movimento ambientalista italiano Ultima Generazione A22 Network
Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups working together to ensure that the government commits to ending all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK.
WE HAVE TO MOVE RAPIDLY. WHAT WE DO OVER THE NEXT 3 TO 4 YEARS,
I BELIEVE IS GOING TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY”
PROFESSOR SIR DAVID KING (Feb 2021) Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government
Rich people flying private jets to UN talks sponsored by Coca Cola that give the fossil fuel industry a huge seat at the table while criminalizing climate activists is NOT the way to stop irreversible catastrophic fossil-fueled global heating. #COP27
2- The government could end it at any time, just by ending the “moral and economic madness” of new oil and gas licenses. Many will paint JSO as the bad guys here but, as the UN Secretary General recognises, they’re not pic.twitter.com/Cgts8iihNG
👴🏻 Austen Espeut: “I don’t want to be doing this, I’d rather be on my allotment.”
🧯 Decades of marching, signing petitions & sending letters to MPs haven’t worked—Civil Resistance is the only option we have left to bring about the urgent change we need to survive
From today, Just Stop Oil will pause its campaign of civil resistance. We are giving time to those in the Government who are in touch with reality to consider their responsibilities to this country at this time. pic.twitter.com/Wxs02CQ1j2
🦺 We have given the UK Government until Friday to commit to stopping new oil and gas. We will escalate if they fail to take this basic step in safeguarding our future.
Stop new oil and gas. Instead, @RishiSunak wants to approve 100 new licenses. Their solution to the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced? More fossil fuels.
🔥 It's a simple question. Do you think this government is going to save the day?
👮♂️ Angry about the cost of policing protests? After 1 month of daily @JustStop_Oil protests, the Met Assistant Commissioner claimed 7,900 officer shifts had responded to protests.
How does that bill compare to other taxpayer expenditure?
Anche il caldo anomalo di questi giorni, così come la siccità, hanno danneggiato l'agricoltura italiana. È questo è nulla rispetto quello che ci aspetta se i governi continuano a sviluppare programmi che ci legano ulteriormente ai combustibili fossili. https://t.co/ZoYqhiWRic
Oggi, zuppa di verdura sul "Seminatore" di Van Gogh Agiamo per amore della vita, dunque per amore dell'arte! In un futuro dove faticheremo a trovare da mangiare per tutti, come possiamo pensare che l'arte sarà ancora tutelata?#crisiclimatica#Clima#ClimateCrisis#vangogh#gaspic.twitter.com/go7UBc8jUY
Perché siamo tanto preoccupatə per la crisi climatica? Perché abbiamo deciso di disobbedire? Cosa pensiamo di ottenere con i blocchi stradali? Ti invitiamo ad ascoltare le risposte a queste domande alla nostra presentazione, ogni domenica alle 21 su zoom!https://t.co/O7Q6OB0v0tpic.twitter.com/u0wEk3HMOg
What we are trying to protect is bigger than any one of us. No matter what the state takes from me I’ll be glad to have given it to increase my generation’s odds of survival.
I didn’t expect to spend this birthday in prison, but I’m comfortable enough. If it means inspiring those continuing business as usual to have that nagging feeling that they should be doing more to take a leap of faith, then I’d spend my next birthday in here too.
Louis McKechnie was imprisoned awaiting trial on July 5th for taking non-violent action in support of Just Stop Oil. His case is expected to be heard in February 2023.
Last week, 3 journalists covering @JustStop_Oil protests were arrested under new 'anti-protest' laws. Alongside @IndexCensorship, @libertyhq and other campaign groups, we call on the govt to urgently rethink protest laws and scrap the Public Order Bill.https://t.co/ysZUSDPjnk
Today's #AutumnStatement budget for insulation could be better, but would not be there at all, without those who served prison time for getting a common sense policy to help with costs & climate on the agenda.
✊ …the biggest act of #CivilResistance undertaken in the UK in a generation. 31 of those arrested were remanded to prison, 32 were released on bail and 2 were released with no further action.
🚨 Hunger striking Just Stop Oil supporter remains in hospital wing:
🏥 A Just Stop Oil supporter who went on hunger strike to demand that the Govt end new oil & gas has been unexpectedly moved to the hospital wing as prison staff became increasingly concerned for their health. pic.twitter.com/Y7op6lWX4N
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