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One worker in a yellow hi-vis pulled the activists off the road one by one outside Green Park underground station in Picadilly. When one activist approached him, he shouted “f*** off” in their face.”
The climate activists have defended law-breaking protest tactics as the campaign group Just Stop Oil continue its month-long action.
Indigo Rumbelow, a Just Stop Oil protester, told BBC Radio 4’s today programme on Wednesday that they use stunts and drastic tactics “to disturb everyday life” and “take drastic action against governments who are pursuing new fossil fuel projects”.
It came as Just Stop Oil protesters sprayed orange paint onto Ferrari and Bentley car showrooms in Mayfair and set up a roadblock in Piccadilly on Day 26 of their planned month-long action.
“We need to let everybody know through all walks of life – whether they’re watching a football match, whether they’re attending an art gallery, whether they’re driving their car around the M25 – that this is a very, very serious and very grave threat that threatens humanity,” Ms Rumbelow said.
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Rupert Read, a professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia who helped set up Extinction Rebellion, said the first major wave of protests in April 2019 “achieved something dramatic and extraordinary, a real increase in climate consciousness”.
However, he argued that while he sympathises with Just Stop Oil’s message, he believes a more moderate approach is now needed.
“What we need is masses of people who are prepared to take action in their own lives, in their communities, where they work, to effect the changes that need to be made,” he said.
“What I’d say to people who don’t like Just Stop Oil’s tactic is: ‘Well fine, but don’t waste your energy cursing at them but instead do something that you actually judge to be better, to be more positive, to be more effective.”‘
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It comes as Just Stop Oil activists sprayed orange painted the facades of luxury car showrooms in Mayfair, central London on Wednesday morning.
Protesters targeted the premises of high-end dealers Ferrari and Bentley on the corner of Berkeley Square and Bruton Street.
The Metropolitan Police arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage in relation to the protest.
At midday on Wednesday, 16 Just Stop Oil supporters walked onto Piccadilly by Green Park Tube station and disrupted traffic by sitting in the road with banners.
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