Oil heiress among American millionaires funding protests

JUST Stop Oil’s hugely disruptive protests are being bankrolled by Hollywood millionaires who want to provoke an ‘October uprising’ in the UK and ten other countries.

Climate Emergency Fund, a Los Angeles-based organisation, is already understood to have handed Just Stop Oil nearly $1million. Now the organisation, whose office is in plush Beverly Hills, has launched a fresh fundraising drive to help Just Stop Oil and other activist groups launch a wave of ‘sustained, disruptive protest’ next month.

Ironically one of CEF’s cofounders is Aileen Getty, heiress of the Getty oil fortune. Another is Oscar-nominated director and producer Rory Kennedy, daughter of assassinated US senator Robert F Kennedy.

Oscar-winning film-maker Adam McKay, who directed the climate-change satire Don’t

Look Up, last month donated £3.6million to CEF. It has pledged to bankroll what it calls the ‘A22 network’ – a group of 11 eco-activist groups, including Just Stop Oil, in 11 different Western countries.

CEF’s website hails Just Stop Oil as a ‘model’ for other activist groups to emulate, and highlights how in April its protesters ‘sustained three weeks of disruptive nonviolent resistance, shutting down ten fossil fuel infrastructure sites at a time, restricting fuel supply in the UK.’