#climateprotests

Tens of thousands of climate activists protest across Germany ahead of upcoming federal election https://www.byteseu.com/746242/ #ClimateActivst #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProtests #Germany #protest

HT @rmblaber1956

Pioneering research reveals growing dangers and repression of climate activism globally

Press release issued: 11 December 2024

"A new report has uncovered the many risks of participating in climate and environmental protests across the world – and how more countries are criminalising and repressing this activity in a bid to keep it in check.

"The report, led by the University of Bristol, is the first to examine global statistics on this form of protest and identify alarming trends. It reveals that more than 2,000 climate and environmental protesters have been killed over the past 12 years and that a raft of new anti-protest legislation has been enacted.

"It calls for governments, police forces and the legal system to help protect people’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression."

"Lead author Dr Oscar Berglund, Senior Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy at the University’s School for Policy Studies, said: “This research sheds important light on how the growing pursuit of climate and environmental protest is being handled globally. Our evidence clearly shows a global crackdown in liberal democracies as well as autocracies.

"'This is worrying because it focuses state policy on punishing dissent against inaction on climate and environmental change instead of taking adequate action on these issues. It also represents authoritarian moves that are inconsistent with the ideals of vibrant civil societies in liberal democracies.'

"The findings showed murders and disappearances of climate and environmental activists are common in many countries, with international non-governmental organisation (NGO) Global Witness reporting at least 2,106 killings between 2012 and 2023. Brazil had the highest number with 401 fatalities, followed by 298 in the Philippines, 86 in India, and 58 in Peru.

"A significant proportion of climate and environmental protests involved arrests, according to the research. The highest proportion, one in five, was found in Australia, followed by 17% in the UK – much higher than the international average of 6.3%.

"Non-violent protesters were also found to be given lengthy prison sentences to act as a deterrent. For example, this year in the UK many climate activists have been sent to prison, with the longest sentence being five years.

"The report defines environmental protests as being aimed at stopping specific environmentally destructive projects, such as fossil fuel exploration and #extraction, #deforestation, dam building or #mining. #ClimateProtests are described as more urban-based events, which tend to have broader policy demands, such as ending oil exploration, or more overarching political demands, for instance enacting a #GreenNewDeal.

"The researchers analysed data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) and Global Witness to gather global data and explore trends as well as new anti-protest legislation introduced in countries in different parts of the world.

"Four main ways were identified to criminalise and repress climate and environmental protests. Anti-protest laws are being introduced, criminalising groups, introducing new crimes, making punishment more severe for existing crimes, increasing police powers, and giving officers impunity when harming activists. Protest is also being criminalised through prosecution and courts.

"Dr Berglund explained: 'This involves using existing legislation, including anti-terror or anti-organised crime laws, to curb protest. Climate protest is being de-politicised in the courts, prohibiting mentions of climate change or environmental damage in proceedings, or otherwise changing court processes in order to increase the likelihood of activists being found guilty.'

"The third category is through policing, which is carried out not only by state actors like police or military, but also private security and military or organised crime groups. This sees a range of attempts to prevent protests through using stop and search, arrests, physical violence, and threats and intimidation of protesters.

"Dr Berglund said: “Perhaps most shockingly, we found killings and disappearances to be common in some countries. In many ways, these are an extension of policing as they are either carried out or permitted by the same authorities, often following death threats and other forms of intimidation.”

"The report makes numerous recommendations, including for public authorities to conduct regular evaluations and publish data demonstrating how their actions help safeguard the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. It also calls for anti-terror and anti-organised crime legislation against climate and environmental activists to stop.

"Dr Berglund said: 'Human rights frameworks should be at the forefront of policing considerations and operations to ensure that the public can exercise their right to protest without impediment or fear.'

"'Climate and environmental protests are increasingly prevalent, for good reason as the climate crisis worsens, and responses to this activity are evolving at pace. Further research is needed to better understand the situation so suitable measures can be identified and implemented to protect human rights and keep protesters safe.'"

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/december/climate-activism.html

#CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #Autocracy #Corporatocracy #Fascism #CriminalizingDissentIsAutocracy #ClimateCrisis #GlobalBurning #CorporateFascism #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #ClimateActivists #Blackwater #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock #ClimateAction #PipelineProtests #WaterProtectors #BigOilAndGas #AntiProtestLaws #SLAPPs #ErikPrinceColonialism #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct
#Project2025 #HR9495 #GlobalWitness #AntiTerrorLaws

@streetartutopia posted:
CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateProtests #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy

Condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh to Delhi #ClimateJustice #India #Climateprotests https://countercurrents.org/2024/10/condemn-the-detention-of-nearly-200-peaceful-climate-marchers-from-ladakh-to-delhi/

A Dallas energy company’s lawsuit could bankrupt #Greenpeace’s U.S. operations

The pipeline company’s chairman, #KelcyWarren, is one of the richest men in North #Texas. Warren has donated $5 million to former President #Trump’s 2024 campaign.

By José Sánchez Córdova
Sep 9, 2024

"#EnergyTransfer, led by North Texas #billionaire Kelcy Warren, claims in the lawsuit that Greenpeace and others incited protests, spread misinformation and vandalized the project, costing Energy Transfers millions of dollars in delays, according to The New York Times. The case is set for trial in #February2025 in #NorthDakota’s #MortonCounty.

"The lawsuit is the second instance of Energy Transfer targeting Greenpeace with a lawsuit. Their initial effort argued that the group violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or #RICO laws, but was dismissed by a federal judge in North Dakota. Energy Transfer subsequently filed the current suit in North Dakota state court.

"Greenpeace’s website calls the ongoing case 'meritless,' adding that it is 'an attack on two key elements of #PublicAdvocacy: #FreeSpeech and #peacefulprotest.'

"Energy Transfer denies those claims."

Original article:
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2024/09/09/a-dallas-energy-companys-lawsuit-could-bankrupt-greenpeaces-us-operations/

Archive:
https://archive.ph/fCWdY

#StandWithStandingRock
#SLAPPs #NoDAPL #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #BigOilAndGas #Blackwater #ClimateProtests #WaterIsLife

Being #persecuted for caring about the planet. "‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/mountain-valley-pipeline-protest #ClimateProtests #CriminalizingProtest #FossilFuelCriminals #ClimateChange #MountainValleyPipeline #WestVirginia #ProtectingCorporateIntersts #CivilRights #HumanRights

In #NYC and elsewhere, #ClimateProtesters say pace of change isn’t fast enough

By SETH BORENSTEIN
September 20, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — "Six years after a teenage #GretaThunberg walked out of school in a solitary #Climate{rotest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon.

"Emissions of heat-trapping gases and temperatures have been rising and #OilAndGas drilling has continued even as the protests that kicked off major weeklong climate events in New York City have become annual events. This year, they come days before the #UnitedNations convenes two special summits, one concentrating on #SeaLevelRise and the other on the future.

"The young people who organized these marches with #FridaysForFuture said there is frustration with inaction but also hope. People marched in #Berlin, #RioDeJaneiro, #NewDelhi and elsewhere, but the focus often is in New York City because of #ClimateWeekNYC. Diplomats, business leaders and activists are concentrating their discussions on the money end of fighting #ClimateChange — something not lost on protesters.

"'We hope that the government and the financial sector make polluters pay for the damage that they have imposed on our environment,' said #Uganda Fridays for Future founder #HildaFlaviaNakabuye, who was among a few hundred marching in New York Friday, a far cry from the tens of thousands that protested in a multi-group mega-rally in 2023.

"The New York protest wants to take aim at 'the pillars of #FossilFuels” — companies that #pollute, banks that fund them, and leaders who are failing on climate, said Helen Mancini, an organizer and a senior at the city’s Stuyvesant High School."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/climate-protests-change-united-nations-climate-week-3c944a1d05d5bb4415c6b811bddc48b9

#ClimateWeek #ClimateProtests #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #FridaysForFuture #BigOilAndGas #Greenwashing

Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateProtests #censorship #civilliberties #ClimateActivism https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/09/18/news/rich-nations-climate-protest-rights-study

"Wealthy, democratic countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on #ClimateProtests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south, according to a report."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/10/climate-rights-report-draconian-measures-protest

Can someone explain to me why you get less jail time for racially aggravated violent disorder than you get for protesting peacefully?

#FarRightRiots #FarageRiots #ViolentDisorder #ClimateProtests #JustStopOil #FullForceOfTheLawMyArse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8497l7dx8t

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/five-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-over-protest-that-blocked-m25

UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off | Environmental activism | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/16/uk-doctors-involved-in-climate-protests-face-threat-of-being-struck-off

#Doctors
#ClimateProtests

#climate protests aren't enough in getting the attention of the general public, because without a vision of an alternative, sustainable future people quickly move on.

#solarpunk 's function is to create imaginable tomorrows to which the climate protests can point to - and which are able to sustain people's attention.

It's not about painting a perfect utopia, but a path where our actions matter, to fight the defeatism.

#climateChange #climateProtests #activism #literature

UN flags ‘grave concerns’ over government's clampdown on climate protesters | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/un-flags-grave-concerns-over-governments-clampdown-climate-protesters

#UN
#UKGov
#Protests
#ProtestBans
#ClimateProtests
#UNSpecialRapporteurOnEnviromentalDefenders
#Forst
#PublicOrderAct2023
#PublicOrderAct
#JustStopOil
#InsulateBritain
#PoliceCrimeSentencingAndCourtsAct
#Murdock
#NewsUK
#ClimateScience
#ClimateScienceSuppression
#GlobalSouth

red. Rewind 2023: Climate Change Disasters have continued this year as capitalism has continued to let the planet burn and thousands of people die from the impact of climate change, particularly in the Global South. Meanwhile, the talking shop for the rich jet-setting elite COP28 was held in one of the world's worst polluters, the United Arab Emirates.

#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #ClimateProtests

#AntiProtest Laws in #Australia

"In 2019, the #Queensland government passed the Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2019. Four United Nations Special Rapporteurs said the laws were 'inherently disproportionate,' and could criminalise peaceful protest.

"The Queensland government consulted #mining lobby group the Queensland Resources Council on the laws.

#MiningCompanies and powerful #lobby groups are pushing governments to further restrict our right to peaceful assembly in response to recent #ClimateProtests – threatening not just our right to protest, but also our ability to combat the #ClimateCrisis."

https://www.amnesty.org.au/campaigns/right-to-protest/

#ClimateJustice #ProtestLaws #Lobbyists #Corporations #BigMining

Um, my old conspiracy-watching self is getting the heebie-jeebies with this story. Are they planning on making room for #ClimateActivists and #HumanRightsActivists? Especially since standing up for #ClimateJustice and #HumanRights seems to becoming a crime.

Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built across the U.S. But do they help or hurt public safety?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billion-dollar-prisons-built-across-us-public-safety-090001432.html
#Orwell #ClimateProtests #Fascism #ACAB #Oligarchy

"Climate activists arrested after disrupting traffic in downtown Boston"

I blame that Chris Packham. Lock 'em all up, it's the only language they unnerstand innit!

#XR #ClimateProtests #Boston #ChrisPackham

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/09/21/climate-activists-arrested-after-disrupting-rush-hour-traffic-in-downtown-boston/

"Protester who held sign outside London climate trial prosecuted - Trudi Warner, 68, prosecuted for contempt of court after protest outside London court"

As Trudi's sign says:
"First they came for the climate protesters"

And so the relentless march towards totalitarianism by the Tories continues.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/protester-who-held-sign-outside-london-climate-trial-prosecuted

#ClimateProtests #TheRightToPeacefullyProtest #Fascism #Totalitarianism

Dutch climate protestors reaching critical mass in protests pleading with the government to stop subsidising fossil fuel industry.

2400 arrests cannot be sustained.

People want fundamental change.

That change has to happen NOW.

#ClimateProtests
#TheHague
#XR
#JustStopOil

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/police-use-water-cannon-climate-activists-block-dutch-highway-2023-09-09/

Why not do something about #ClimateChange instead of criminalizing protesters? "German police call for crackdown on growing climate protests" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/27/german-police-call-for-tougher-response-to-growing-climate-protests-letzte-generation #Germany #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateProtests #activism