#juststopoil — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #juststopoil, aggregated by home.social.
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🚨"#Wildfires🔥are raging & the world 🌎 has junked 45 #climate pledges! 🤬 Disaster looms & little wonder."😤-Bill McGuire #Politics #Corruption #CorporateWelfare #ClimateCrisis #StopFossilFuels #JustStopOil #FossilFuelsOutNow #SaveOurPlanet #Food #Health #Air #Environment #CostOfLivingCrisis
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@0ptimist @Rebellin_aus_Gruenden
Leider merken das die Blechdosenpiloten in ihren 2-Tonnen-Kühlschränken zu spät, wenn überhaupt.
#MitDemAutoVomSofaZumBürostuhlFahrer #ImperialistischTodlicheBlechpest #BlechVormKopf #AutosZuTempo30Schildern #AutosZuBackBlechen #Autoproblem #KeinBlutzollmehr #AutoszuGast #StVOtoetet #OilKills #MännerdiedieWeltverbrennen #KlimaVerbrecher #ClimateActionNow #ClimateCatastrophe #JustStopOil #CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #MobilitätFürAlle #MIVraus -
🚨The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in! 🤬
Don't think that's right? Sign the #petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the #CostOfLivingCrisis!👇😤#Politics #Democracy #Oligarchs #Justice #Accountability #MakePollutersPay #FossilFuelsOutNow #JustStopOil #SaveOurPlanet #SaveOurFood #SaveOurWater #SaveOurAir #SaveOurHealth #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/raise-taxes-on-companies-profiteering-from-iran-war via @38degrees -
🚨We need to spread the word. Tell the #UK government to stop deep sea mining before it starts! 🤬 @10DowningStreetl #Politics #StopFossilFuels 🔥 #JustStopOil #SaveOurPlanet #SaveOurHealth #SaveOurFood #SaveOurWater #ClimateEmergencyIsNow #MakePollutersPay
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“How To Start a Revolution in 2026”
by Roger Hallam in Savage Minds on Substack
[Note: #Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil, #InsulateBritain, the cooperative federation organisation #RadicalRoutes, & the political party #BurningPink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hallam_(activist)]
“Ordinary People Can Run Society—But Only if We Build the Structures to Let Them”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/how-to-start-a-revolution-in-2026
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The only reason I posted this, is to remind normies and #statusquo types who are afraid of #anarchists :anarchoheart1: :anqueer_flag: :anarchismhebrew: :anarchoheart3: , #antifascists :antifa: , #socialists :socialiststar: #trans :heart_trans: and nb :heart_nb: people, pro-PalestineProtesters 🇵🇸 , #BLM ✊🏾 ✊🏿 , #dragperformers, and #JustStopOil or #ExtinctionRebellion :xr: :
Remember! OUR side doesn't do shit like this! ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOF2XjV6CQY
#CapitolRiots survivor #MichaelFanone talks about how he and his family are violently targeted by the #farright , including #ultras throwing poo at HIS MOTHER!!!! DISGUSTING!
#J6 #ProudBoys #USAFascistShitShow #6Janinsurrection #FCKNZS #ExtrêmeDroite
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@fulelo But it's really important to prosecute all these non violent climate protesters!
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Disruptive climate protests, like those by #JustStopOil, annoy some but actually work in shifting public opinion and driving policy change. For example, protests by #ExtinctionRebellion and #InsulateBritain led to increased media coverage and influenced climate legislation.
While some argue that disruptive actions hurt the cause, history shows that nonviolent civil disobedience, even when illegal, can be effective in sparking change, as long as it stays nonviolent. #uk
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/peaceful-protests-work-lessons-from-the-uk/
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In lieu of 'Journalists', I've had Mastodon inform me of the Just Stop Oil / Landed Gentry connection which seems to be baffling us.
Roger Hallam owns a farm, he's one of them!
#JustStopOil #FarmersProtest #Landowners #Feudalism #JeremyClarkson #RogerHallam #UKPOL #Ukpolitics
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#UKGovernment admits new #OilField approved unlawfully
James Cook
BBC Scotland editor
November 13, 2024"The UK government has admitted in court that the country's largest untapped oilfield, #Rosebank off #Shetland, was approved unlawfully.
"The move came during a case brought by #ClimateCampaigners against both Rosebank and the #JackdaGasField in the #NorthSea.
"At the Court of Session in Edinburgh Chris Pirie KC, for the government, accepted that assessments did not include 'the effects on climate of the combustion of oil and gas to be extracted from the fields.'
"Rosebank was given the green light on 27 September 2023 and Jackdaw on 1 June 2022, both by the previous #Conservative administration.
"As part of the consenting process, the government was required to consider #EnvironmentalImpact assessments about the fields.
"These took into account the impact on #ClimateChange of emissions caused by the process of extracting oil and gas but not of #GreenhouseGases which would be released when the #FossilFuels were eventually burned."
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"The firms involved — #Shell, #Equinor, and #IthacaEnergy — say they should be allowed to carry on with drilling because permission was granted in good faith under the law as it was understood at the time."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2dxqd1pyo#BigOilAndGas #ShellOilKnew #NoDrillingInTheNorthSea #JustStopOil
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"#UniversalSuicide": An imprisoned #ClimateActivist on why the fight for the planet still matters
#JustStopOil cofounder Roger Hallam spoke with Salon about overcoming climate despair and taking action
By Matthew Rozsa
Staff Writer
October 24, 2024"Many people don’t need something as dramatic as #HurricaneMilton to tell them our climate is spiraling out of control. It’s evident everywhere, from the U.K. recently reporting its second worst #harvest on record to #Antarctica turning green to the U.S. spending $150 billion a year on climate change-related #ExtremeWeather events.
"But this isn’t some mysterious crisis. We know #FossilFuel companies are responsible for the emissions heating the globe. But instead of fixing it, these corporations have lied to the public, bribed politicians and sowed distrust in science. Meanwhile, governments are giving more money than ever to fossil fuel companies via subsidies, with a record $7 trillion cashed out to #BigOil in 2022.
"Some climate activist groups would like to bring your attention to this issue. But they are often arrested and get the book thrown at them when they demonstrate. Climate activist Roger Hallam knows this all too well, as he serves a five-year prison sentence for #BlockingTraffic — and, as he explained to Salon, his plight is a warning to Americans who vote for politicians that deny climate science.
"Hallam, who described himself as a #PoliticalPrisoner, was incarcerated for his role in leading and participating in an anti-climate change demonstration in November 2022. For four days, Hallam and more than three dozen other activists climbed a gantry and thereby blocked traffic in London’s critically important #M25 motorway."
#ExxonKnew #BigOilAndGas #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #BigOilAndGas #SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #EarthDefenders
#Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #HumanRights #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis -
#Yasuní: Das Erdöl muss im Boden bleiben!
Vor einem Jahr hat das ecuadorianische Volk dafür gestimmt, das #Erdöl in einem Teil des Yasuni-Nationalparks im Amazonas-Regenwald zu belassen. Doch die Regierung versucht, die Entscheidung um viele Jahre hinauszuzögern.
Das Verfassungsgericht von #Ecuador muss diese verbindliche Entscheidung durchsetzen und die Regierung zwingen, sich an das Gesetz zu halten!#Petition:
https://www.regenwald.org/petitionen/1293/alle-augen-sind-auf-yasuni-gerichtet-das-erdoel-muss-im-boden-bleiben -
And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!
#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.
"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.
"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.
"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.
"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.
"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.
"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.
"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.
"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.
“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.
"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe -
It’s no surprise that big #polluting companies are not happy about annual #CarbonTax increases. But it is #unfair that #BritishColumbians must pay the full carbon tax when the #OilAndGas industry, whose production is responsible for more than one-quarter of #BritishColumbia #CarbonEmissions, gets a carbon #TaxBreak.
The new system will also have a negative impact on B.C.’s carbon #TaxRevenues. In 2024-25, carbon tax revenues will be about $500 million lower than they would have been under the old system. This #RevenueLoss means fewer dollars to pay for #ClimateAction.
These changes point to a #BCgovernment that is far too cosy with the oil and gas #industry. And they make no sense given the urgency of acting on #ClimateChange. #Disasters in 2021 alone caused between $11 billion and $16 billion in damage to the #BCeconomy.
If B.C. really wants to be a #climate leader, the government must stop pandering to lobbying by the oil and gas industry that is causing climate change and act in the interests of all British Columbians
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/08/09/BC-Letting-Big-Industry-Evade-Carbon-Tax/
#BCNDP #Ecocide #BanCorporateLobbyists #BCpoli #ConflictOfPublicInterest #EcoJustice #environmental #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #CrimesAgainstHumanity #EcocidalManiacs #CapitalistCrimes #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #SuperSelloutBCNDP #SuperCorruptBC #PNW #PollutedPoliticians #EndCorporateWelfare #EbyTheEnabler #DavidEby #HorganizedCrimesContinue #JustStopOil #DivestFromFossilFuels
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Un piccolo contributo in vista del presidio di sabato a #Milano per #RogerHallam e le climattiviste represse
https://www.radiondadurto.org/2024/08/01/presidio-contro-lingiustizia-climatica-per-la-liberazione-di-roger-hallam/ #extinxtionrebellion #juststopoil #ultimagenerazione #endfossil -
They put all their Spycops on Environmentalists and the parents of a murdered child and forget to spy on the Fash.
Shouldn't be too hard for the Police to find some Fash..maybe by looking in a mirror?#Southport #Spycops #Police #JustStopOil #ukpol #ukpolitics #StephenLawrence
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@ProjectFearlessness ...and this is why we're jailing climate activists at every opportunity.
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We need the #BCgovernment to get the message from concerned communities across B.C. that we must work together and with urgency to #protect #OldGrowthForests and #reform #forestry practices. To do so, the next steps are crucial:
#StopLogging in the most at-risk #OldGrowth #forests, and other #ecosystems identified by First Nations, by providing promised funding for #LoggingDeferrals.
Provide full #FinancialSupport to #FirstNations for long-term #IndigenousLed #conservation solutions, including #compensation for lost revenues and employment.
Move away from the “all or nothing” approach common in forestry practices across B.C. and most evident in #ClearcutLogging. In its place, work with First Nations, local residents, industry and other stakeholders to implement forestry practices that prioritize important values like #biodiversity, #habitat, #WaterRetention, #Indigenous #CulturalUse, and #tourism.
#PleaseSignPetition & boost to help #SpreadTheWord ->
#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform
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Just Stop Oil vows to continue civil resistance after activists jailed for 21 years over Zoom call | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/just-stop-oil-vow-continue-civil-resistance-after-activists-jailed-21-years-over-zoom#JustStopOil
#Convictions
#Zoom
#ZoomCall
#ClimateCrisis
#Court
#Activists
#TellTheWholeTruth
#ClimateCrisisInadmissible
#NotAllowedToTellTheWholeTruth
#SouthwarkCrownCourt
#Southwark
#Hehir
#PoliticalOpinion
#ShowTrial
#PolicyExchange
#OilIndustry
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#petition #JustStopOil #WholeTruthFive #RogerHallam #ClimateActivism #ClimateCrisis #injustice #UK #UN #UNnews #news
"Stop Jailing Those Telling The Truth"
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#ChrisPackam and #DaleVince right to say
"Complete madness. It is a disgrace and a stain on our country that our courts have been co-opted to do the fossil fuel industry’s dirty work."
about the #WholeTruthFive & many nonviolent protestors who have been jailed in the UK recently"These protesters are shouting ‘fire’ while the world burns. A society that locks them up cannot be called democratic"
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis
#JustStopOil
#Justice
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Die bisher längsten Haftstrafen für friedlichen Protest: Britische Klimaaktivist*innen müssen für bis zu fünf Jahre ins Gefängnis. via @tazgetroete getroete @juststopoil #Juststopoil #Klimaproteste #RogerHallam #Großbritannien #britischeJustiz #BritischeRechtsprechung #Demonstrationsrecht #clivelewis
https://taz.de/Extinction-Rebellion-und-Just-Stop-Oil/!6024673/
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@Silversnapples As far as I'm concerned, all of the #InsulateBritain, #ExtinctionRebellion, and #JustStopOil heroes are heroes. They're putting their freedom on the line to try to protect all of our homes and all of our lives -- which is precisely why they're being so relentlessly persecuted by those who want to burn the world.
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The right to #protest is under threat in #Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy
By JILL LAWLESS
December 26, 2023LONDON (AP) — "For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading '#JustStopOil' off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence. Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been arrested.
"They are among hundreds of #environmental activists arrested for peaceful demonstrations in the U.K., where tough new laws restrict the right to protest.
"The Conservative government says the laws prevent extremist activists from hurting the economy and disrupting daily life. Critics say #CivilRights are being eroded without enough scrutiny from lawmakers or protection by the courts. They say the sweeping arrests of peaceful #demonstrators, along with government officials labeling #EnvironmentalActivists #extremists, mark a worrying departure for a liberal democracy.
"'Legitimate protest is part of what makes any country a safe and civilized place to live',' said Jonathon Porritt, an #ecologist and former director of #FriendsOfTheEarth, who joined a vigil outside London’s Central Criminal Court to protest the treatment of demonstrators.
"'The government has made its intent very clear, which is basically to suppress what is legitimate, lawful protest and to use every conceivable mechanism at their disposal to do that.'"
#DigitalFreeSpeech #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs #AbolishTheMonarchy #2023PublicOrderAct
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Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march
Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act
by Damien Gayle
Fri 15 Dec 2023"A #ClimateActivist has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful #SlowMarch protest on a London road.
"The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell, 57, is thought to be the first jailing under a new law that critics say makes anyone walking in a road liable for prosecution for 'interference with key national infrastructure'.
"#Section7 of the #PublicOrderAct2023 bans any act that prevents newspaper printing presses, power plants, #oil and #gas extraction or distribution sites, #harbours, #airports, #railways or #roads 'from being used or operated to any extent', with a potential penalty of 12 months in jail.
"Gingell, a father of three from #Manchester, was one of about 40 supporters of #JustStopOil who spent about 30 minutes marching on #HollowayRoad in north #London at about 4pm on 12 November, the climate campaign group said.
"He pleaded guilty to breach of section 7 at a hearing that same month at Wimbledon magistrates court. On Thursday, his case was transferred to Manchester magistrates court, where he was sentenced to six months.
"Just Stop Oil has been campaigning since 2022 for the UK government to stop all new fossil fuel production. The campaign’s 'guerrilla tactics' were cited by the Home Office when it introduced the Public Order Act’s tough new #AntiProtest measures to parliament.
"Police began using section 7 to tackle Just Stop Oil’s protests at the end of October, arresting 60 people taking part in a march in Parliament Square. In a campaign of slow march protests carried out by the group between then and 4 December, 470 of the group’s supporters were arrested 630 times, with about half of those arrests under the new law.
"A spokesperson for the campaign said: 'Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, a law drafted by the #FossilFuel lobby, was introduced in April by Priti Patel, and covers ‘interference with the use or operation of key national infrastructure’. It seems this government has now made walking down the road, walking on the public highway an illegal act that is worthy of imprisonment.
"'How many fathers will be imprisoned before those planning to kill us are stopped? New oil and gas will see millions upon millions lose their homes, livelihoods and lives. Protected by the government, by failed politicians, by the police, those committing genocide continue to walk free, those protesting the killings are banged up. Whose side are you on?'
"The human rights organisation Liberty criticised Gingell’s sentencing. Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: “It is shocking to see such harsh sentences handed down to protesters. This is yet another unnecessary and draconian law introduced by a government that is hell-bent on discouraging people from standing up for what they believe in. It is a clear attempt to silence people and for the government to hide from all accountability.
"Protest is a fundamental right, not a gift from the state. Government should be protecting our right to protest, not criminalising it.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?share=jetpack-whatsapp#BigOilAndGas #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest
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Another court challenge to #AntiProtest laws -- this one in the #UK
High court challenge to ‘constitutionally unprecedented’ UK anti-protest law
#NationalCouncilForCivilLiberties brings civil case to quash ‘back-door’ regulations making it easier for police to stop protests
By Daniel Boffey, November 29, 2023
"A new law making it easier for the police to put conditions on peaceful protests is 'constitutionally unprecedented' and unlawful, according to a claim filed at the high court in #London.
"The legal challenge from the National Council for Civil Liberties, also known as #Liberty, is seeking to have the controversial regulations quashed, given what the advocacy group describes as the #draconian consequences for fundamental rights.
"The former home secretary Suella Braverman used the government’s so-called #HenryVIII powers to lower the threshold for the police to impose restrictions on protests, allowing it where there is merely a 'more than minor' hindrance on people’s daily lives.
"The change, through a statutory instrument in the Lords, came after the chamber rejected the same change, proposed months earlier in a heavily debated and scrutinised new public order act. Peers do not by convention normally vote down statutory instruments.
"The manner in which the regulations are said to have been forced through parliament is said by lawyers acting for Liberty to 'represent a constitutionally unprecedented attempt on the part of the executive to achieve by the back door through delegated legislation what it was unable to achieve by the front'.
"There had been 'no reasonable justification' provided for using a statutory instrument to change the law, it is claimed, and there was inadequate consultation of those who would be affected.
"Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: 'We all want to live in a society where our government respect the rules, but time and again this government has done the opposite. The previous home secretary’s actions to sneak in rejected laws through the back door are a particularly egregious example of this.
“The wording of the government’s new law is so vague that anything deemed by police to cause ‘more than a minor’ disturbance could have restrictions imposed upon it. This has serious implications for everyone’s right to stand up for the things they believe in.
“These laws had been thrown out by parliament just months before the then home secretary introduced them. It’s shocking to see the government so flagrantly disregard our vital democratic checks and balances, and we’re determined not to let this stand.
“Our legal action is intended to stop this government’s flouting of the law in its tracks, and make sure that nobody – including our politicians – is above the law. It’s vital that they are not allowed to get away with it.'
"In the protest regulations brought into force on 14 June, 'more than minor' hindrances or delays are included in the definition of 'serious disruption' that is the threshold at which the police may impose conditions on a protest under the public order act 1986.
"The police are also allowed to take into account the cumulative effect of repeated protests when deciding whether the threshold had been met.
"The government has said the regulations are an attempt to deal with the activities of #JustStopOil and #ExtinctionRebellion, and that the language around 'more than minor' hindrances mirrors that in other new offences of ‘locking-on’ and ‘tunnelling’.
"The changes were nevertheless rejected by the House of Lords in February by 254 votes to 240 when they were put forward as amendments during the passage of the public order bill 2023, only for them to re-emerge in a statutory instrument.
"Regulations brought in by such means, known a Henry VIII powers in reference to the monarch’s preference for legislating directly by proclamation, are subject to minimal parliamentary scrutiny and decided on an 'all or nothing' basis without amendments.
"Between 1950 and 2017, only 0.01% of the total number of such instruments laid before parliament were rejected.
"Liberty’s legal challenge refers to supporting comments by the Lords’ secondary legislation scrutiny committee, which had been sufficiently alarmed to warn peers of 'constitutional issues' and told them it was 'not aware of any examples of this approach being taken in the past'.
"The legal challenge said it could not be right that parliament was 'treated as having provided [the] executive with a blank cheque to lower the applicable threshold by the back door and thereby sanction greater police interference with public assemblies and protests'.
"The government’s consultation is also said to have been limited to a roundtable chaired by the prime minister with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Metropolitan police service and the police and crime commissioners of the police forces whose areas include the M25 and national highways.
"A Home Office spokesperson said: 'The right to protest is a fundamental part of our democracy but we must also protect the law-abiding majority’s right to go about their daily lives.
"'That is why legislation is in place to clarify the definition of serious disruption and give police the confidence they need to clear roads quickly.
"'This legislation was voted on by both the House of Commons and House of Lords, following proper parliamentary procedure.'"
#WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent
#DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent
#CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest #SlowMarch -
#goodmorning #Mastodon 😃 #PalkyWorld #generalfactotum auf #deutsch der Hausmeister ist . Here we now have #polyglot #house . French, German, Italian, all before breakfast. All different eating habits and requirements. #ukpolitics ammendments > #publicorder bill, now before the #HoC #draconian Not only aimed at #JustStopOil also all protest groups #SODEM inc. #antifa Go well friends #staysafe #befree xx #Palky
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#Introduction
I am a #retired #computergeek , interested in fainess and equality in society. I believe in growth - but for everybody, not the few.As such I follow #GTTO, #PR, and anything to rid us of this squalid and unfair govt.
On a personal level I am an #ecowarrior - but not evangelical. Make your own mind up. #climateJustice, #Insulate, #JustStopOil
Oh, and the world is a better place with #MotoGP