The extreme climate change organization Just Stop Oil block the street for a London Pride parade on Saturday in protest of the parade's corporate sponsors.after protesters halted a truck by sitting in the middle of the road.
"This afternoon’s action comes after LGBTQ+ representatives from Just Stop Oil met with London Pride to discuss their demands, after it was revealed Just Stop Oil would consider disrupting the event. London Pride have so far failed to make a commitment to take necessary steps to protect the LGBTQ+ community from the unfolding climate collapse, and have failed to address their relationship with destructive industries co-opting Pride to ‘pinkwash’ their reputations," the statement read.
Just Stop Oil spokesperson James Skeet later criticized the Pride march as a whole for refusing to take the climate crisis seriously by accepting donations from"high polluting" corporations. The Just Stop Oil organization has taken part in many controversial protests to raise awareness on climate change. Most notably, they were one of multiple groups who targeted and defacedHandout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Goghs famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022.leading to hostile and even violent confrontations.