Moment eco clown chucks orange paint over Exeter University building in JSO’s latest stunt which also targeted Oxford library… despite being invited to have a stall at their freshers’ fair
- Just Stop Oil activist hurled orange paint at Exeter University yesterday
- Demonstrators did this despite being invited to hold a stall at freshers’ fair
This is the moment a Just Stop Oil protester was filmed hurling a bucket of orange paint over a building at Exeter University amid whoops and cheers from fellow activists.
The eco-activists carried out the vandalism despite being invited by the university to hold their own stall at the freshers’ fair taking place yesterday.
The group converged on the Penny campus in Devon with orange paint at lunchtime on Tuesday.
In the clip, a young bearded man dressed in a white ‘Just Stop Oil’ T-shirt can be seen carrying the bucket over to the building.
Two fellow demonstrators film him up close as he crosses a zebra crossing and opens the bucket of neon paint.
A Just Stop Oil protester throws paint on the University of Exeter Penny campus
The activist targeted the Penny building in the University of Exeter as the group continues their demands for no new oil projects.
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Activists begin cheering as the activist splashes paint across the wall in four heavy doses, before chanting in unison.
The man then says to the camera: ‘Our government is complicit in genocidal plans to licence over 100 fossil fuel projects.
‘The projects are the betrayal of our generation. We know what new fossil fuels look like. It looks like death, famine and war.
‘Young people have had enough. We can’t stand by and watch this happen anymore. Inaction is a death sentence but together we can force change, it’s what’s happened countless times throughout history and if we come together and do what’s necessary, then we too can create the change that we need.’
Yesterday at the university, the group gathered outside the glass façade of ‘The Forum’ and staged a separate protest – with one man sitting on the roof while orange paint was thrown at the building.
George Simonson, 23, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Edinburgh, was responsible for the paint on the glass façade of ‘The Forum’ on the Exeter University campus.
Simonson said: ‘Studying engineering taught me that we already have the solutions to address the climate crisis, what we lack is the political will. The politicians have been bought, and educational institutions are absolutely complicit in allowing them to continue this genocide.
‘Universities are accepting tens of millions in dirty money and letting the fossil fuel companies come to careers fairs to give out free pens. Students have a duty to step up and show teaching institutions we won’t stand for it anymore.’
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called to Exeter University on Tuesday afternoon following reports of a male on the roof of a building, which was believed to be as part of a protest.
‘Officers attended and arrested a male on suspicion of criminal damage. He has since been released on police bail.’
Yesterday, the group targeted the Forum building of the University of Exeter with orange paint
Yesterday at the university, the group gathered outside the glass façade of ‘The Forum’ and staged a separate protest
The protests in Exeter broke out on the same day as another Just Stop Oil rally in Oxford, in which protesters filled fire extinguishers with orange paint before spraying it on the iconic library – which dates to the 18th century.
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Protestors Daniel Knorr, 21, and Noah Crane, 18, were later named as the activists responsible for the Oxford debacle.
It comes following the arrest of five Just Stop Activists on October 4 after they hijacked a performance of Les Misérables in London’s West End.
The crowd booed and jeered as eco-activists, holding the group’s orange banner, clambered onto the stage at the Sondheim Theatre in Shaftesbury.
One furious theatre-goer shouted: ‘Get off you stupid people. How dare you.’
Another yelled: ‘You naughty people, you naughty people.’
One man near the front of the audience snatched away one of the eco-protestors’ banners.
The stage invasion occurred during the musical’s famous protest song of Do You Hear The People Sing? which is often seen as a call to action and has been used all over the world in rebellions including the 2019 Jong Kong demonstrations.
The protestors are calling on staff and students to join the protest group’s march in London in November.
Protestor Daniel Knorr, 21, said he was taking action to ‘resist the destruction of my generation’, while another said protesting ‘gives me hope’.
Just Stop Oil has described the spray painting of the building in Oxford city centre as ‘resistance against the UK Government ‘s plans to license new oil and gas projects’
Two protestors were arrested at the scene and had their orange paint seized by police
Both Knorr, a biochemistry student and Noah Crane, 18, a recent A-Level graduate, were pictured painting the historic Radcliffe Camera building earlier today.
George Simonson, 23, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Edinburgh, was responsible for the paint on the glass facade of ‘The Forum’ on the Exeter University campus.
Simonson said: ‘Studying engineering taught me that we already have the solutions to address the climate crisis, what we lack is the political will. The politicians have been bought, and educational institutions are absolutely complicit in allowing them to continue this genocide.
‘Universities are accepting tens of millions in dirty money and letting the fossil fuel companies come to careers fairs to give out free pens. Students have a duty to step up and show teaching institutions we won’t stand for it anymore.’
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