Five people have been arrested after Just Stop Oil protesters disrupted a performance of Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre in London’s West End.
During a performance of the song Do You Hear the People Sing? members of the Just Stop Oil group stormed the stage with banners. In a video of the protest posted online, the performance came to a halt as one member shouted “just stop oil”, to boos from the audience.
I, for one, support Just Stop Oil. Any form of fighting, raising awareness or disruption to tackle the global warming and pollution issue that so many of us shrug off. We take too much for granted.
Personally I am wary of any group that has Roger Hallam in it, I also dont like their reductive story telling about civil disobedience / non violence and their whole “our plan WILL work, trust me bro”. I still am in solidarity with their actions and goals, but I dont support the brand / organization behind it or all the similar ones around the globe.
The problem isn’t raising awareness imo, god knows there’s enough information out there constantly… the battle now is getting people to care/believe.
In that respect, my view is that JSOs approach is counterproductive. I support protest around this, but it needs to be better than this.
Maybe you are right too - mayhaps it’s not the right way. You can’t deny that the intentions are right - maybe they just need better plan.
I’m burning trees down to protest and setting fire to car tires, thank you for supporting me! Would you like to donate to the cause?
Have JSO actually burned down trees and car tyres in protest?
As a HUGE fan of Les Miserables, I 100% support this action. I think Victor Hugo and Les Amis de l’ABC would too.
As always, everyone wants everyone else to take on the burden of the required degrowth.
JSO are not popular, but they are right.
They’re not right though and that’s the real problem, when you actually talk to them their ideas are insane and useless - of course we all want to avoid climate catastrophe but they don’t have workable solutions they just have ways of making people suffer and causing chaos that makes climate action in impossible.
Not that it matters to anyone here, no one really cares they just like to be on the hip team and act edgie while continuing to live exactly the and selfish life they were hoping to anyway.
If they were going to interrupt the show, they choose the right scene to do it.
How does Just Stop Oil make decisions and form plans? Like is there a formal or informal organizational layout that tries to implement some kind of democratic or horizontal decision making process?
I am asking because Letzte Gneration in Germany, a group with similar actions, goals and popularity, is not organized in any democratic way or form. Which for me is a problem.
