How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world

1. 2024-06-12 at 2:22 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world
   
   

   “These defenders are basically trying to save the planet, and in doing so save humanity,” said Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders. “These are people we should be protecting, but are seen by governments and corporations as a threat to be neutralised. In the end it’s about power and economics.”
   
   Climate and environmental justice groups report a significant increase in draconian, and often arbitrary, charges for peaceful protesters as part of what they claim is a playbook of tactics to vilify, discredit, intimidate and silence activists.

2. 2024-06-12 at 3:47 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   I've learned the key to life is to just play Rocket League and chess all day every day. Do whatever you want as nothing *really* matters.
   
   It's a weird underlying feeling to just.. live.. to do anything that makes you happy whilst knowing (yet doing ones best to ignore) the CONSTANT atrocities taking place anywhere at any time.
   
   "Yo, Wren, wanna go hit up the Aquarium there's a badass DJ there tonight?!"
   
   "No, I can't, because somewhere near me there is a dog in horrible conditions crying his eyes out, and there's a child locked in it's closet because his parents are all fucked up on meth and don't even remember he's in there."
   
   "Yeah but it's DJ Solo!"
   
   "Ah shit ok lol let's fucking gooooooo!!!!!"
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   • ner vegas, 
   • Obbe
3. 2024-06-12 at 4:18 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Originally posted by mmQ I've learned the key to life is to just play Rocket League and chess all day every day. Do whatever you want as nothing *really* matters.

   
   Great advice.
   
   Tiger got to hunt,
   Bird got to fly,
   Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
   
   Tiger got to sleep,
   Bird got to land,
   Man got to tell himself he understands.
   
   Unfortunately, I have never understood anything.
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   • mmQ
4. 2024-06-12 at 4:50 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle

   Originally posted by Obbe Great advice.
   
   Tiger got to hunt,
   Bird got to fly,
   Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
   
   Tiger got to sleep,
   Bird got to land,
   Man got to tell himself he understands.
   
   Unfortunately, I have never understood anything.

   
   Thanks Chuck I didn't meant to get all Bukowski.
5. 2024-06-12 at 5:12 AM UTC

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   Elbow Tuskegee Airman
   W rzeczywistości istnieje wiele grup zafascynowanych 'radykalną akcją klimatyczną', które kończą na niczym innym jak tylko popełnianiu drobnych przestępstw, takich jak wandalizm i niszczenie mienia. Grupa, która istnieje po to, by popełniać przestępstwa, powinna być ścigana zgodnie z prawem. Określanie waszego zachowania przestępczego jako 'czynu protestu' nie powinno zapewniać wam ochrony.
6. 2024-06-13 at 1:34 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   “Punishment for collective actions is becoming ever more draconian, as a means to discourage them and criminalise them …… This is a testament to the way in which the political class, while having few practical responses in store to the demands of social movements, all too often resorts to simply repressing these very demands and the groups and individuals voicing them.”
   
   In Australia, Human Rights Watch has found that the authorities “are disproportionately punishing climate protesters in violation of their basic rights to peaceful protest”. Several states, including Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria, have passed or are trying to pass laws that can punish peaceful environmental protesters with hefty fines and jail time. The laws are accompanied by an expansion in the discretionary powers available to police such as on-the-spot fines and onerous bail conditions.

7. 2024-06-13 at 1:39 AM UTC

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   Enigma African Astronaut
   Criminalization*
8. 2024-06-13 at 7:44 AM UTC

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   Elbow Tuskegee Airman

   Originally posted by Obbe

   
   Nie możesz twierdzić, że twoje przestępcze zachowanie jest aktem pokojowego protestu i oczekiwać, że unikniesz odpowiedzialności za popełniane przestępstwa. To nie jest sposób, w jaki działają prawa człowieka.
9. 2024-06-13 at 11:21 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Originally posted by Enigma Criminalization*

   
   Same thing.
10. 2024-06-16 at 12:30 AM UTC

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    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]