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Climate Crisis: Are you ready to be a criminal? [1]

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Date: 2023-10-12  

How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world [link to the Guardian 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. The Guardian has also found striking similarities in the way governments from Canada and the US to Guatemala and Chile, from India and Tanzania to the UK, Europe and Australia, are cracking down on activists trying to protect the planet.

The legal contexts vary, but the charges – such as subversion, illicit association, terrorism and tax evasion – are often vague and time-consuming to disprove, while a growing number of countries, including the US and UK, have passed controversial anti-protest laws ostensibly intended to protect national security or so-called critical infrastructure such as fossil fuel pipelines. The systematic criminalisation of environmental defenders is not new. Natural resources on Indigenous land have long been exploited, driving big profits for some but also fuelling violence and inequality.

Yes I am, and to those seeking to criminalize my right to protest all I have to say is:

FUCK YOU!

Oh, I am sorry dear leaders am I threatening your election campaign contributions?

It is not as if it would be the first time I’ve been rounded up.

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