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.