#protectprotest — Public Fediverse posts

Let them have grenades!

"Grenades filled with rubber pellets and other so-called ‘less lethal’ munitions have been increasingly deployed, despite being linked to serious injuries and even deaths."
The stinger grenade, "was used in line with its guidelines" in Melbourne.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/16/police-detonated-a-stinger-grenade-at-a-melbourne-protest-now-two-activists-may-sue-over-their-injuries
#protest #rights #ProtectProtest #WarZone #grenades #violence #citizens #governance #CrowdControl #Australia #LetThemEatCake

The risk of serious injury by police at protests is escalating

"Lawyers and activists say such encounters are representative of an increasingly dangerous use of force at protests in Australia, including the deployment of largely unregulated “less lethal” police tools including oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray, baton rounds and explosive “distraction devices”.

"OC spray was used almost 900 times in NSW in the last financial year. There were at least 2,323 takedowns in NSW in the same year, 54% of them against people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.“Grab/hold/push/swarm” was the force used most by police at these incidents, recorded 640 times. There were 224 uses of OC spray or foam recorded."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/27/like-being-stabbed-in-the-eye-the-risk-of-serious-injury-by-police-at-protests-is-escalating-experts-warn
#UsOfForce #violence #harm #governance #ProtectProtest #NSWLogging #activism

Banksy mural of judge beating protester scrubbed from London court

"It depicted a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel. The stencilled spray painting appeared on an exterior wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice on Monday."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/banksy-mural-of-judge-beating-protester-scrubbed-off-in-london/105760478
#ProtectProtest #law #parrhesia #RuleOfLaw #protest

Banksy mural of judge beating protester scrubbed from London court

"It depicted a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel. The stencilled spray painting appeared on an exterior wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice on Monday."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/banksy-mural-of-judge-beating-protester-scrubbed-off-in-london/105760478
#ProtectProtest #law #parrhesia #RuleOfLaw #protest

Banksy mural of judge beating protester scrubbed from London court

"It depicted a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel. The stencilled spray painting appeared on an exterior wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice on Monday."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/banksy-mural-of-judge-beating-protester-scrubbed-off-in-london/105760478
#ProtectProtest #law #parrhesia #RuleOfLaw #protest

Banksy mural of judge beating protester scrubbed from London court

"It depicted a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel. The stencilled spray painting appeared on an exterior wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice on Monday."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/banksy-mural-of-judge-beating-protester-scrubbed-off-in-london/105760478
#ProtectProtest #law #parrhesia #RuleOfLaw #protest

Banksy mural of judge beating protester scrubbed from London court

"It depicted a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-splattered placard while a judge in a traditional wig and black gown beats him with a gavel. The stencilled spray painting appeared on an exterior wall of the iconic Royal Courts of Justice on Monday."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/banksy-mural-of-judge-beating-protester-scrubbed-off-in-london/105760478
#ProtectProtest #law #parrhesia #RuleOfLaw #protest

Environmentalist Mark Graham barred from Forestry Corp offices after protest

"Justice Richard Weinstein granted bail on the condition that Mr Graham not travel within half a kilometre of the Forestry Corporation offices."

"Justice Weinstein remarked that a Forestry Corporation vehicle was akin to "a red flag to a bull" for the defendant. It's a very volatile situation up there."

"Mr Graham will return to Coffs Harbour Local Court on September 17."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-20/environmentalist-mark-graham-bail-coffs-harbour/105587574
#LoggingAndLandclearing #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #CoffsHarbour #climatedisruption #ProtectProtest

SLAPP - wear down and silence critics
"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are a tactic used by companies and wealthy individuals to weaponise the courts against those who stand up or speak out for the public interest. These lawsuits are not about justice—they are designed to intimidate, silence dissent, and suppress public debate."
https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2024/10/31/anti-slapp-laws

"Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury.
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’"

"Legal sources have said the case is a classic example of a Slapp – a form of civil litigation increasingly deployed by corporations, politicians and wealthy individuals to deliberately wear down and silence critics including journalists, activists and watchdog groups. These cases, even when the entities suing lose, cause significant legal costs for defendants and can have a chilling effect."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline
#PublicDebate #SLAPP #HumanRights #law #litigation #FossilFuels #water #StandingRock #ProtectProtest #environment

Sign an Open Letter to #ProtectProtest from the new suite of repressive laws proposed by the Victorian government! Our freedom of assemby, expression and association is under threat. Come to the rally on March 19, and sign the letter to defend our human rights here:
#auspol #democracy #protest #politics #law #humanrights
https://wagepeaceau-beyondwarau.nationbuilder.com/defenddissent

"The Burrup Peninsula,
in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

"Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/climate-activists-fined-over-protest-outside-woodside-boss-meg-oneills-perth-home-ntwnfb

Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812251562/murujuga/
#FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

Pine creek forest defenders singing
"One day more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
#pinecreek #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #GumbainggirCountry

Pine creek forest defenders singing
"One day more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
#pinecreek #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #GumbainggirCountry

Pine creek forest defenders singing
"One day more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
#pinecreek #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #GumbainggirCountry

Pine creek forest defenders singing
"One day more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
#pinecreek #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #GumbainggirCountry

Pine creek forest defenders singing
"One day more'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
#pinecreek #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #ecocide #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #GumbainggirCountry

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests

"More than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent)...Australia's arrest rate was the highest of 14 countries in the global study.It's higher than policing efforts in the United Kingdom (17.2 per cent), Norway (14.5 per cent), and the United States (10 per cent)." >>

"Australia's political leaders have joined the "rapid escalation" of efforts to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protest."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/australia-leads-world-in-arresting-climate-environment-activists/104721294

Study: Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests, University of Bristol >>
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

The Global Warning Report: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia
"That EDO report warned of "a worrying proliferation of anti-protest legislation in Australia," The "systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country," and the "unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression." >>
https://www.edo.org.au/publication/global-warning-report-the-threat-to-climate-defenders-in-australia/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Warning%20Report%3A%20The,fuel%20industry%20driving%20that%20repression.

"A 2024 position paper from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders that warned of the growing urgency of the "triple environmental crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change and the global increase in civil disobedience in environmental activism in response to those crises."
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #rights #law #HumanRights #democracy #criminalisation #Australia #FossilFuels #Indusrty #LoggingIndustry #externalities #harm #NSWLogging #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #EDO

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests

"More than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent)...Australia's arrest rate was the highest of 14 countries in the global study.It's higher than policing efforts in the United Kingdom (17.2 per cent), Norway (14.5 per cent), and the United States (10 per cent)." >>

"Australia's political leaders have joined the "rapid escalation" of efforts to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protest."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/australia-leads-world-in-arresting-climate-environment-activists/104721294

Study: Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests, University of Bristol >>
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

The Global Warning Report: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia
"That EDO report warned of "a worrying proliferation of anti-protest legislation in Australia," The "systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country," and the "unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression." >>
https://www.edo.org.au/publication/global-warning-report-the-threat-to-climate-defenders-in-australia/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Warning%20Report%3A%20The,fuel%20industry%20driving%20that%20repression.

"A 2024 position paper from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders that warned of the growing urgency of the "triple environmental crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change and the global increase in civil disobedience in environmental activism in response to those crises."
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #rights #law #HumanRights #democracy #criminalisation #Australia #FossilFuels #Indusrty #LoggingIndustry #externalities #harm #NSWLogging #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #EDO

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests

"More than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent)...Australia's arrest rate was the highest of 14 countries in the global study.It's higher than policing efforts in the United Kingdom (17.2 per cent), Norway (14.5 per cent), and the United States (10 per cent)." >>

"Australia's political leaders have joined the "rapid escalation" of efforts to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protest."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/australia-leads-world-in-arresting-climate-environment-activists/104721294

Study: Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests, University of Bristol >>
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

The Global Warning Report: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia
"That EDO report warned of "a worrying proliferation of anti-protest legislation in Australia," The "systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country," and the "unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression." >>
https://www.edo.org.au/publication/global-warning-report-the-threat-to-climate-defenders-in-australia/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Warning%20Report%3A%20The,fuel%20industry%20driving%20that%20repression.

"A 2024 position paper from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders that warned of the growing urgency of the "triple environmental crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change and the global increase in civil disobedience in environmental activism in response to those crises."
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #rights #law #HumanRights #democracy #criminalisation #Australia #FossilFuels #Indusrty #LoggingIndustry #externalities #harm #NSWLogging #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #EDO

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests

"More than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent)...Australia's arrest rate was the highest of 14 countries in the global study.It's higher than policing efforts in the United Kingdom (17.2 per cent), Norway (14.5 per cent), and the United States (10 per cent)." >>

"Australia's political leaders have joined the "rapid escalation" of efforts to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protest."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/australia-leads-world-in-arresting-climate-environment-activists/104721294

Study: Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests, University of Bristol >>
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

The Global Warning Report: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia
"That EDO report warned of "a worrying proliferation of anti-protest legislation in Australia," The "systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country," and the "unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression." >>
https://www.edo.org.au/publication/global-warning-report-the-threat-to-climate-defenders-in-australia/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Warning%20Report%3A%20The,fuel%20industry%20driving%20that%20repression.

"A 2024 position paper from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders that warned of the growing urgency of the "triple environmental crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change and the global increase in civil disobedience in environmental activism in response to those crises."
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #rights #law #HumanRights #democracy #criminalisation #Australia #FossilFuels #Indusrty #LoggingIndustry #externalities #harm #NSWLogging #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #EDO

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters
Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests

"More than 20 per cent of all climate and environment protests in Australia involve arrests, which is more than three times the global average (6.3 per cent)...Australia's arrest rate was the highest of 14 countries in the global study.It's higher than policing efforts in the United Kingdom (17.2 per cent), Norway (14.5 per cent), and the United States (10 per cent)." >>

"Australia's political leaders have joined the "rapid escalation" of efforts to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protest."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/australia-leads-world-in-arresting-climate-environment-activists/104721294

Study: Criminalisation and Repression of Climate and Environmental Protests, University of Bristol >>
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf

The Global Warning Report: The Threat to Climate Defenders in Australia
"That EDO report warned of "a worrying proliferation of anti-protest legislation in Australia," The "systemic repression faced by climate activists across the country," and the "unregulated political influence of the fossil fuel industry driving that repression." >>
https://www.edo.org.au/publication/global-warning-report-the-threat-to-climate-defenders-in-australia/#:~:text=The%20Global%20Warning%20Report%3A%20The,fuel%20industry%20driving%20that%20repression.

"A 2024 position paper from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders that warned of the growing urgency of the "triple environmental crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change and the global increase in civil disobedience in environmental activism in response to those crises."
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/UNSR_EnvDefenders_Aarhus_Position_Paper_Civil_Disobedience_EN.pdf
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #rights #law #HumanRights #democracy #criminalisation #Australia #FossilFuels #Indusrty #LoggingIndustry #externalities #harm #NSWLogging #biodiversity #ClimateBreakdown #EDO

Criminalising peaceful protesters with draconian laws

“NSW anti-protest laws are anti-democratic and disproportionate, they also raise constitutional and human rights concerns. They must be scrapped.”

"The proposed laws will add financial penalties up to $22,000 for people who obstruct trains, on top of two years imprisonment....Earlier this year, the Human Rights Law Centre’s Protest in Peril report found that the right to protest has been under attack by governments and institutions over the last 20 years, with NSW having introduced the most anti-protest laws. These laws have disproportionately targeted environmental defenders and people advocating for action on climate change."
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https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/anti-protest-laws-slammed
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #environment #conservation #BiodiversityCrisis #ecocide #democracy #NSW #law #coal #LoggingImpacts #ClimateEmergency

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/margo-kingston-arrested-nsw-anti-logging-protest-ntwnfb
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

User-pays charges for protests?

“Adding a financial hurdle to the freedom to protest undermines that very freedom... democracy should not be monetised”.
"NSW has enacted the highest number of anti-protest laws of any state, according to a report released earlier this year by the Human Rights Law Centre."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/08/democracy-unions-revolt-chris-minns-palestine-protests-cost-nsw-police
#ProtectProtest #democracy #NSW #australia #HumanRights

Haida people Taking a Stand (roadblock) against old growth forest logging
Protecting Mother Earth: Haida Gwaii - Lyell Island Standoff >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBI2A8S-xM

"The Stand" delves into the 1985 conflict in which the Haida people defended their old growth forests by forming a human chain to block commercial logging companies on Lyell Island.">
https://www.thenorthernview.com/local-news/haida-film-on-historic-clearcut-logging-roadblock-to-premiere-at-viff-7565261
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #forests #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ProtectProtest #CivilDisobedience #NSWLogging #destruction #harm #film #OldGrowthForests

"Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are. A child born now will experience 24 times the number of extreme climate events as a politician born in the 1960s. The IPCC’s latest report states emphatically that to spare the worst effects of climate breakdown there should be no new fossil fuel development."
Tim Winton
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/30/our-leaders-are-collaborators-with-fossil-fuel-colonialists-this-is-the-source-of-our-communal-dread
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #climate #coal #CivilDisobedience #resistance #ProtectProtest #disrupt #ClimateAnxiety #ExtremeHeat #livability #YoungPeople #parenting #Intergenerationaljustice #SettlerSociety #ExtremeClimateEvents #Australia

Criminalising non-violent climate protesters

"Emails between fossil fuel lobbyists and lawmakers in Utah, West Virginia, Idaho and Ohio suggest a nationwide strategy to deter people frustrated by government failure to tackle the climate crisis from peacefully disrupting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure by enacting tough laws with lengthy jail sentences".

"The findings from dozens of freedom of information requests suggest that the right to peaceful protest is under attack in the US – much like in other major democracies including the UK, Germany, Canada and Australia."
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
#HumanRights #democracy #energy #FossilFuels #FossilFuelIndustry #coal #activism #CivilDisobedience #ProtectProtest #law #GHG #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction #governance

Environmental defenders jailed

"In the United Kingdom, participation in a Zoom call that discusses peaceful protest...exposes the participants of the call to the risk of a lengthy prison sentence."

Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 and 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest.

"The gravity of today’s sentencing decision becomes glaringly obvious when considering the act for which Mr. Shaw has been sentenced: Mr. Shaw participated in a Zoom call that discussed climate change and the organizing of a peaceful environmental protest. This is the factual basis for Mr. Shaw’s conviction and sentence for “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”"
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
#FossilFuels #ProtectProtest #HumanRights #UK #PublicNuisance #ClimateAction

Environmental defenders jailed

"In the United Kingdom, participation in a Zoom call that discusses peaceful protest...exposes the participants of the call to the risk of a lengthy prison sentence."

Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 and 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest.

"The gravity of today’s sentencing decision becomes glaringly obvious when considering the act for which Mr. Shaw has been sentenced: Mr. Shaw participated in a Zoom call that discussed climate change and the organizing of a peaceful environmental protest. This is the factual basis for Mr. Shaw’s conviction and sentence for “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”"
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
#FossilFuels #ProtectProtest #HumanRights #UK #PublicNuisance #ClimateAction

Environmental defenders jailed

"In the United Kingdom, participation in a Zoom call that discusses peaceful protest...exposes the participants of the call to the risk of a lengthy prison sentence."

Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 and 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest.

"The gravity of today’s sentencing decision becomes glaringly obvious when considering the act for which Mr. Shaw has been sentenced: Mr. Shaw participated in a Zoom call that discussed climate change and the organizing of a peaceful environmental protest. This is the factual basis for Mr. Shaw’s conviction and sentence for “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”"
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
#FossilFuels #ProtectProtest #HumanRights #UK #PublicNuisance #ClimateAction

Environmental defenders jailed

"In the United Kingdom, participation in a Zoom call that discusses peaceful protest...exposes the participants of the call to the risk of a lengthy prison sentence."

Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 and 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest.

"The gravity of today’s sentencing decision becomes glaringly obvious when considering the act for which Mr. Shaw has been sentenced: Mr. Shaw participated in a Zoom call that discussed climate change and the organizing of a peaceful environmental protest. This is the factual basis for Mr. Shaw’s conviction and sentence for “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”"
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https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
#FossilFuels #ProtectProtest #HumanRights #UK #PublicNuisance #ClimateAction

Environmental defenders jailed

"In the United Kingdom, participation in a Zoom call that discusses peaceful protest...exposes the participants of the call to the risk of a lengthy prison sentence."

Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 and 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest.

"The gravity of today’s sentencing decision becomes glaringly obvious when considering the act for which Mr. Shaw has been sentenced: Mr. Shaw participated in a Zoom call that discussed climate change and the organizing of a peaceful environmental protest. This is the factual basis for Mr. Shaw’s conviction and sentence for “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.”"
>>
https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

Protest is the wellspring of democracy – that’s why Labour must repeal the Tories’ draconian laws>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/protest-democracy-labour-tories-laws
#FossilFuels #ProtectProtest #HumanRights #UK #PublicNuisance #ClimateAction

NSW anti-protest laws criminalise protests

"Following the sentencing of a climate change protester, civil liberties groups are calling for an urgent repeal of protest laws in New South Wales."

"The charges come from legislation passed by NSW Parliament in April 2022, which prevents “illegal protesting” on major roads, bridges, tunnels, public transport, and infrastructure facilities. Those who break this law could face a maximum penalty of $22,000, two years in prison or both."

"In a statement, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties (NSWCCL), said that section 144G of the Roads Act 1993 (NSW) and section 214A of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) “significantly hinders people’s rights to freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of political communication.” "
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https://cityhub.com.au/calls-mount-for-repeal-of-protest-laws-after-climate-protestor-sentenced-to-3-months-in-prison/
#ProtectProtest #climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #NSW #NSWCCL #laws #democracy #CivilLiberties #PublicPlaces #activism #rights

Limiting the Right to Protest

"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. But governments across Australia have criminalised people who are peacefully protesting by proliferating a worrying number of anti-protest laws. The right to protest is in peril in Australia."

"The Protest in Peril report analysed and compiled every single bill across Australia over the last two decades which has impacted upon the right to protest, and has found people’s ability to come together freely and peacefully to speak out on issues they care about is being steadily eroded in Australia."

"Over the past two decades, 49 laws affecting protest have been introduced in federal, state and territory parliaments. New South Wales has introduced the most anti-protest laws, while South Australia has the toughest financial penalties with fines of up to $50,000 for common protests. These laws have disproportionately targeted environmental defenders and people advocating for action on climate change."
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https://www.hrlc.org.au/reports-news-commentary/protest-peril

Protest in Peril report >>
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/580025f66b8f5b2dabbe4291/t/66839e900f9e01139197fd07/1719901849532/20240703_ProtestInPeril_HRLC-FINAL.pdf
#HumanRights #Rights #Protest #ProtectProtest #democracy #AntiProtest #laws #NSW #Australia #governance #environment #ClimateAction

Next week’s enews will include my first #PublicOpenSpace launch events, more poetry lesson plans, some thoughts on missing and making deadlines, free coaching tools, and a rant about South Australia’s new anti-protest laws. Subscribe at link ink bio or https://katelarsenkeys.substack.com.

#Poetry #AustralianPoetry #AusPoetry #AustralianPoet #Coaching #LessIsNecessary #Protest #ProtectProtest #SouthAustralia

Next week’s enews will include my first #PublicOpenSpace launch events, more poetry lesson plans, some thoughts on missing and making deadlines, free coaching tools, and a rant about South Australia’s new anti-protest laws. Subscribe at link ink bio or https://katelarsenkeys.substack.com.

#Poetry #AustralianPoetry #AusPoetry #AustralianPoet #Coaching #LessIsNecessary #Protest #ProtectProtest #SouthAustralia

The South Australien Government has made an ad about its new anti-protest legislation and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!

#ProtectProtest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kecnSHmznic

@KarenawokeKaren

I can't believe they won't repeal the anti-protest law, this is the most fascist of legislation

People were arrested yesterday for *having the potential to cause nuisance* . That's right, no harm done to anyone, and the police in the UK can now arrest you.

I hate the way my country is governed right now.

#ProtectProtest
#HumanRights
#SocialistSunday

#conveniencekills #ProtectProtest

#ProtectProtest #ClimateJustice

Good news!

Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco freed from prison while she appeals 15-month jail sentence

Judge rules Coco, jailed for Sydney Harbour Bridge protest, did not represent a risk to the community

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/13/climate-activist-deanna-violet-coco-freed-from-prison-while-she-appeals-15-month-jail-sentence