Who?
Sabotage Oil for Survival (SOS/OilSabs) is a new civil resistance campaign starting in 2024.
This campaign has a single goal:
To sabotage UK infrastructure and systems which support the production, development, distribution and burning of fossil fuels.
SOS uses covert nonviolent sabotage to disrupt the key pillars of the fossil fuel economy.
Why?
Earth systems are crumbling. 1.5 degrees is dead. The world is on track for 3 degrees warming. The shattering of civil society across the planet is beginning as 100s of millions are flooded, exposed to brutal heat and devastated by storms every year. We know the cause, fossil fuels, we know the solution, ending fossil fuels.
We need an emergency response to this crisis that requires the complete restructuring of our society. Who is to blame? The richest 1%. They control the media, they buy our governments, they profit as the world burns and we can’t afford to heat our homes. They rely on the smooth flow of fossil fuels to continue to line their pockets.
How?
Resistance against the brutal fossil fuel regime has taken many forms. Nonviolent civil disobedience movements like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have been incredibly effective at sounding the alarm on the climate crisis, and must continue to do so if we have any hope of a livable future. However, it is yet to pose a serious threat to business as usual.
History shows us that sabotage offers a powerful tool to throw a monkey wrench into the gears of the fossil fuel machine. We must rapidly, carefully, and with dedication, dismantle the fossil fuel infrastructure of the UK in all its forms.
SOS is a nonviolent movement, and will not rise to violent harm against people, including the police or anyone who opposes the movement.
This is a movement built on a love of humanity and the world we live in. SOS fundamentally rejects the idea that property damage to fossil fuel infrastructure is violent. The simple reality is that dismantling the fossil fuel regime is necessary to avoid the violence of climate collapse.