Just Stop Oil activists block Westminster traffic and throw soup over Government energy department – as the group tells Home Secretary they will stop hurling broth if she meets with them
- Just Stop Oil protesters threw soup over the government Department for Energy
- A dozen protesters gathered on Victoria Street in Westminster just after 11.30am
- Soup ‘a reference to the fact countless families in this country cannot afford it’
- It comes after activists threw Heinz soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers on Friday
Just Stop Oil protesters have thrown soup over the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and halted traffic outside the building in busy central London.
A dozen protesters gathered on Victoria Street in Westminster just after 11.30 this morning.
They sat down in the road holding banners and glued themselves to the tarmac and each other, blocking traffic.
Just Stop Oil protesters have thrown soup over the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
A number of other protesters then threw soup on to the front of the building.
Just Stop Oil said that they targeted the BEIS because it is the Government department responsible for allowing new fossil fuel extraction.
They said that they used soup in ‘a reference to the fact that countless families in this country cannot afford a tin of soup, and famine is rife across sub-Saharan Africa’.
The environmental activist group issued an invitation to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, for talks
Just Stop Oil said that they targeted the BEIS because it is the Government department responsible for allowing new fossil fuel extraction
A dozen protesters gathered on Victoria Street in Westminster just after 11.30 this morning
The environmental activism group issued an invitation to the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, for talks.
They also demanded that the Government halts all new oil and gas licences.
A spokesperson said: ‘Just Stop Oil invites the Home Secretary Suella Braverman to come and meet with us and we will stop throwing soup.
An activist wearing a Just Stop Oil high-vis vest was detained by police after throwing a substance over signage for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Protesters sat down in the road holding banners and glued themselves to the tarmac and each other
‘Join us on Thursday October 20 at 11am, in London, in public, to hear what is driving students, builders, engineers, care workers, vicars to throw soup at iconic paintings, to scale bridges, and to repeatedly, relentlessly block roads in the capital.
‘We are ordinary people in nonviolent civil resistance in order to protect our rights, freedoms and our heritage. We seek to protect the lives and livelihoods of all humanity.’
Earlier today, two Just Stop Oil protesters climbed to the top of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge which links Essex and Kent, forcing police to close it to traffic.
Earlier today, two Just Stop Oil protesters climbed to the top of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge which links Essex and Kent, forcing police to close it to traffic
Plummer and Holland went viral when they threw Heinz tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s £76 million masterpiece at the National Gallery
Monday’s demonstrations follow over two weeks of continuous civil resistance by supporters of Just Stop Oil, with protesters spraying orange paint over the Aston Martin showroom on Park Lane on Sunday.
Last week, two activists threw two tins of Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery.
They threw the soup over the iconic £76 million painting before gluing themselves to a wall inside the Gallery.
Since their campaign began on April 1, Just Stop Oil say that their supporters have been arrested over 1,750 times, and five are currently in prison.
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