Just Stop Oil protesters surrounded by counter protesters called ‘Just Stop Pi*sing Everyone Off’

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Just Stop Oil protesters were surrounded by counter-protestors as they were setting off on another slow march in south London on Thursday morning (July 20).

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00:00 My name's Keira, I'm 29 years old and yesterday I was arrested for peacefully protesting on

00:06 the road.

00:07 But I'm back out here today because it is our democracy right to do so.

00:13 And we know that disruption is uncomfortable, but it's necessary.

00:18 And we meet this circle of people around us and we do agree about the same things.

00:23 Except that we have that sense of urgency that when you see that a house is on fire,

00:28 you're not going to ask permission to the people inside to call the fire rescue.

00:34 You're just going to do it.

00:36 And that's what Just For Boys does.

00:38 We're ringing the Arlan bell.

00:40 And yes, getting on the road is scary, but again, it is necessary.

00:45 And we do this out of love and we also do it out of desperation.

00:49 Because this government does not have our best interests at heart.

00:52 Quite the opposite.

00:53 It is determined to go through with over a hundred new fossil fuel licenses.

00:59 And that's our future.

01:01 That's everyone's future.

01:02 Yours as well as ours.

01:04 And the people have children too.

01:06 And you know, it's not just my generation.

01:09 It's every single person here and the people in the global south as well.

01:15 My mom lives in Canada.

01:17 There was over a hundred wildfires in our province.

01:20 I'm terrified.

01:21 I've got family in the Southern Front too.

01:24 There are droughts there.

01:26 The ground was 60 degrees in Spain.

01:29 That's crop failure.

01:30 That's wildfires.

01:31 I just don't want this future for myself or for anyone of you.

01:37 I'd like to see how long you're prepared to stand there, because this is great for us.

01:47 We're having a conversation.

01:49 What's your plan?

01:51 Because when you do leave, we're going to go on the road again.

01:55 I think it's been so beneficial this morning being able to meet with some of you lovely

02:03 people and having conversations with you and finding out why we're here and why you're

02:09 here.

02:10 Because believe me, we are the ordinary people and we've got the power.

02:15 The only bit that needs to happen now is we all need to connect the dots and join together.

02:20 We agree, we just want to stop walking people off.

02:23 Yeah.

02:24 We don't mind.

02:25 We support the law.

02:26 I don't know.

02:27 There's an election next year.

02:28 You don't like this government.

02:29 Maybe stand for election.

02:30 We don't have time for that.

02:31 We're really moving the grass.

02:32 That's the thing.

02:33 Democracy, yeah.

02:34 It's a really fascinating position.

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