Just Stop Oil have protested in Ealing this morning as part of the fifth day of their protests against the use of fossil fuels in the UK. 

At 8am on Friday 28th April, 64 Just Stop Oil protestors marched in three different locations in London, in Ealing, Putney, and Mile End, these protests caused significant disruption and yesterday prompted police to issue Public Order Act (S12) notices to remove Just Stop Oil supporters from the roads.   

The continuing campaign comes on the heels of an announcement yesterday by the Home Secretary that Police will be given the power to break up "slow walking" protests under new legislation, after her proposed amendment to the Public Order Bill was blocked by the House of Lords in December. 

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson said: "People marching to protect their rights, lives and livelihoods is a time honoured method of resistance. We are doing what the Suffragettes did and what the Civil Rights movements did.  

It's what everyone does when the inalienable right to life and a livelihood are violated – they engage in direct action. It is an act of self respect, an act of solidarity, an act of necessity."  

"We won't be deterred by changes to protest laws or how strongly the police enforce those laws. Just Stop Oil supporters understand that this is irrelevant when we face mass starvation, mass death and the collapse of ordered human society."  

"So do your worst Suella Braverman. But understand this: you and the Government of which you are a part will go down in history as cowards who did not have the guts to look reality in the face. You will go down in history as criminals who consigned millions of people to a future of starvation, misery and death, because you did not face up to your responsibility to protect and lead." 

Protestors from Just Stop Oil plan to march on Parliament Square on Saturday 29th April to the Home Office to show solidarity with the UK's political prisoners including Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker and then join with a Black Lives Matter protest in marching to Downing Street.