Just Stop Oil protester seeks online donations for M25 fines
Environmental activist Louise Harris is appealing for online funds to pay court fines after bringing the M25 motorway to a standstill in 2022.
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Just Stop Oil activist Louise Harris is begging for cash online to cover court fines she incurred following a 2022 protest, the Daily Mail reported. Harris brought the M25 motorway to a standstill in a protest that forced a 1 million pound police operation. [1]
Harris was a 24-year-old Cambridge graduate when she took part in days of protest designed to cause disruption, according to the Daily Mail. She stated that she does not regret her actions from four years ago for a second. [1]
Just Stop Oil is a British environmental activist group that emerged in late 2021 and formally launched public actions in April 2022. The organisation uses civil resistance, nonviolent direct action, traffic obstruction, and publicity stunts to demand that the British government end new fossil fuel licensing and production. [2][4]
In short
- Louise Harris is appealing for online funds to pay court fines incurred from a 2022 M25 motorway protest.
- The 2022 protest on the M25 forced a police operation costing 1 million pounds.
- Harris was a 24-year-old Cambridge graduate at the time of the demonstration.
Sources
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- [1]Just Stop Oil protester who studied at Cambridge begs for cash to cover court fine after she brought M25 to a standstill forcing £1million police operationDaily Mail, 54m ago (the report this story comes from)
Background
- [2]Just Stop Oil on Wikipedia
- [3]Great Leap Forward on Wikipedia
- [4]Just Stop Oil on Grokipedia
- [5]Cambridge on Grokipedia
- [6]French Senate passes bill forcing protesters to pay for demonstration damage FTMQ News, 12d ago
- [7]Tropical Storm Rachel forces beach closures and flooding in Southern California FTMQ News, 29d ago
Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 7 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.
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