The climate activist group Just Stop Oil is in the spotlight after its protesters threw soup on a Van Gogh painting. The coalition says it is demanding an end to new fossil fuel production in the U.K.
The protest movement says it practices nonviolent civil resistance in the effort to get the government to take action.
Through the spring, Just Stop Oil said its members were arrested more than 1,000 times during a monthslong protest campaign in which people blocked oil terminals.Rob Pinney/Getty ImagesJust Stop Oil protesters block the road at the back of Downing Street on Wednesday in London.Most of the money for its operations comes from the Climate Emergency Fund, based in Los Angeles, which began with a foundational grant of $500,000 from Getty Oil heiress Aileen Getty.
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