{"id":189139,"date":"2023-11-25T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189139"},"modified":"2023-11-25T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T12:53:31","slug":"just-stop-oils-weepy-wannabe-popstar-needs-20000-for-her-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/just-stop-oils-weepy-wannabe-popstar-needs-20000-for-her-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Stop Oil&apos;s weepy wannabe popstar needs \u00a320,000 for her album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Just Stop Oil&#8217;s weepy wannabe popstar who filmed herself crying while shutting down the M25 stars in bizarre &#8216;performative&#8217; eco-ballad to raise \u00a320,000 for her climate album<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>EXCLUSIVE: &#8216;Just Stop Oil popstar&#8217; Louise Harris has launched\u00a0a GoFundMe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The eco-lout says she wants to raise \u00a320,000 to release six songs\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She claims she &#8216;waste time in a meaningless job just to pay the bills&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Cambridge educated eco-zealot who rose to fame after crying on an M25 gantry as part of a Just Stop Oil protest has released a new &#8216;performative&#8217; environmental song in which she cries for almost five minutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Activist Louise Harris, 25, a wannabe vegan popstar from Harpenden has had her latest track titled &#8216;We Tried&#8217; officially endorsed by Just Stop Oil who retweeted her post in which she warned: &#8216;This is<span>\u00a0what will happen if we don\u2019t a<\/span>ct now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who once likened herself to a prisoner of war because football fans pelted her with drinks after she invaded the pitch at a Premier League game, also shared a link to a GoFundMe page for her 2024 &#8216;Climate&#8217; album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In it, she explains that she needs to raise \u00a320,000 to record six songs that &#8216;could mobilise millions of people into the climate movement&#8217; and in order to do so couldn&#8217;t &#8216;waste time in a meaningless job just to pay the bills.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The music video comes after a sustained period of demonstrations by the eco-group who have forced the Metropolitan Police to make over 500 arrests in just 12 days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027469-12771227-image-a-34_1700497419800.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Just Stop Oil activist Louise Harris, 25, a wannabe vegan popstar from Harpenden, has released a new music video where she cries into the camera<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/64277399-12771227-Louise_Harris_24_today_crying_above_the_M25_where_she_defied_an_-a-35_1700497441298.jpg\" height=\"477\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She had previously filmed herself crying above the M25 where she defied an injunction forbidding shutting it down<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027493-12771227-image-a-33_1700497387766.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Harris also\u00a0shared a link to a GoFundMe page for her 2024 &#8216;Climate&#8217; album where she hopes to raise \u00a320,000<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=YaheWP-6DbQ%3Frel%3D0<\/p>\n<p>Harris has previously compared her campaigning to that of the Irish rebels&#8217; fight for independence from the British claims and says she has been arrested five times for her efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0&#8216;Am I a comfy enough pillow for you?&#8217;: Police accused of pandering to Just Stop Oil eco clowns by propping them up to stop group &#8216;die-ins&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>She was mocked on social media last year for weeping on the gantry over Britain&#8217;s busiest motorway as she declared: &#8216;You might hate me for doing this. I&#8217;m here because I don&#8217;t have a future.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She and other campaigners would go on to spend a month in HMP Wandsworth for the trouble while awaiting their hearing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Describing her activism on her GoFundMe page, Harris described how she wanted her song to &#8216;be a wake-up call for anyone who is simply going about their ordinary life.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But since posting her appeal online, she has been mocked by some and accused of being a &#8216;scrounger.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking to the replies below her post on X, one person said: &#8216;As parodies go, this is hilarious! Great job, love.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another said: &#8216;Another scrounging loser. Get a job to pay for your album.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One said the video, in which Harris cries directly into the camera, was bordering on funny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8216;Seriously, is this a meant to be a joke? Members of the Just Stop Oil doomsday cult seem to get more and more bizarre.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027459-12771227-image-a-36_1700497515774.jpg\" height=\"107\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027461-12771227-image-a-37_1700497523447.jpg\" height=\"113\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027457-12771227-image-a-38_1700497525687.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Since posting her fundraising appeal Harris has been roundly mocked online<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/78027477-12771227-image-a-39_1700497561427.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The prolific activist, was also spared jail in summer 2020 for trying to tie herself to goal posts during Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s clash with West Ham<\/p>\n<p>Harris had previously been accused of hypocrisy after pictures emerged of her posing next to a 2009 Fiat Punto, which runs on unleaded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0The woman who ruined your Monday: Eco-activist who caused M25 chaos is Cambridge-educated wannabe popstar<\/h3>\n<p>Just Stop Oil opposes petrol cars so much its members smash petrol stations to prevent people refueling and blockade refineries.<\/p>\n<p>She also appears to be at the wheel &#8211; or a passenger &#8211; in the same car in a number of other social media posts, including this year when she has been taking part in Just Stop Oil protests, despite it running on petrol.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Harris compared the yellow Punto to the vehicle made famous by The Inbetweeners, because it has a red door.<\/p>\n<p>In one post where she stands next to the Fiat she says: &#8216;I am officially Number 1 fan of this show f*** you other wannabes.\u00a0Unfortunately it DOESN&#8217;T have a tape deck&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific activist, was also spared jail\u00a0 for trying to tie herself to goal posts during Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s home tie with West Ham in 2022 while wearing one of the Just Stop Oil group&#8217;s trademark orange t-shirts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the incident recently, the activist &#8211; who self-styles as a &#8216;pop singer-songwriter &#8211; aligned herself with rebels during the Irish War Of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that 2,346 people were killed or died as a result of the gruelling War of Independence, which ran between 1919 and 1921.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/64276389-12771227-Just_Stop_Oil_activist_Louise_Harris_24_next_to_the_petrol_Fiat_-a-40_1700497785410.jpg\" height=\"554\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Just Stop Oil activist Louise Harris, 24, next to the petrol Fiat Punto she appears to drive\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/63861663-12771227-image-a-41_1700497789556.jpg\" height=\"576\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, she declared that &#8216;we must learn from history&#8217; to stop climate activists being executed like rebels were<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/16\/63860599-12771227-Harris_who_posts_songs_on_YouTube_including_a_slickly_edited_mus-a-42_1700497815782.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Harris &#8211; who posts songs on YouTube including a slickly edited music video called &#8216;Dating me is like a Cambridge term&#8217; &#8211; supposedly came to the realisation that her climate activism shared parallels with the conflict during a holiday to Ireland\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, she declared that &#8216;we must learn from history&#8217; to stop climate activists being executed like rebels were.\u00a0 Ms Harris has even said she would go to war &#8216;to save the human race&#8217; if the time comes. However, she followed the sentiment by acknowledging &#8216;war is awful&#8217; and she would rather &#8216;be part of nonviolent civil resistance instead.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrator &#8211; has also posted songs on YouTube including a slickly edited music video called &#8216;Dating me is like a Cambridge term&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics include:\u00a0Dating me is like a Cambridge term. 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