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Novara FM: Emergency Brake! On The Road With Just Stop Oil

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Just Stop Oil is a group focused on climate change. So what were they doing blocking the path of a coachload of migrants last week? It all has to do with the effects of a warming world and predictions about the displacement of millions of people. In this episode, Richard Hames follows JSO activists as […]

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0:00.0

I'm Naomi Klein and I am at Navarro Media right now having just done in a wonderful in-depth interview.

0:07.0

And this is why I love Navarro Media and I listen regularly and watch to find out what the hell is

0:13.8

going on in the UK. It is so critical to have independent media that we can trust that goes deep

0:20.0

on the issues and also lets people stay up on the day-to-day twists and turns. It's going to be

0:24.8

especially important for your next election. So I'm incredibly grateful that Navarro Media exists

0:31.0

and it exists because people support it. So make sure to support Navarro Media. We need left

0:37.0

institutions and that means that we have to support them when they're doing such great work as

0:41.9

Navarro Media is. Thanks.

1:07.8

What are we listening to then?

1:10.1

Apart from the sadly unavoidable roar of the wind, that was the sound of activists from

1:14.4

just stop oil being very nearly run over by a coach they are standing and at one point sitting in

1:20.6

front of. The activists moments before have salved forth into the road on the ferry bridge crossing

1:27.4

that connects Weymeth in Dorset to the small town of Portland and have stopped the traffic.

1:33.5

Car by car they then let the traffic through to focus on just the coach and a single car

1:38.9

in front of it. But there is a major difference here from other similar actions by just stop oil.

1:46.0

This, after all, was no ordinary coach. It was carrying a busload of migrants from a hotel in

1:52.2

Exmouth where they had been kept onto the B. Stockholm, a converted barge designed to hold migrants

1:58.8

in conditions just stop oil, says a tantamount to a concentration camp. And Portland is therefore

2:05.4

no ordinary town, or perhaps an all-too ordinary one. It's a site of one of the most

2:11.1

conspicuously brutal parts of the UK's current migration politics. But what is just stop oil?

2:17.4

A group whose central demand is its name and whose focus has been resolutely on the climate doing

2:23.2

that. They offered me this summary. When we take action against the causes of the climate crisis,

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