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DoomsdaysCW

Why is violence against #EnvironmentalDefenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin
11 Sep 2024

"In January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico.

"The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement.

"In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted by armed men and interrogated for days about their work fighting construction of a new airport in the Philippines.

"All across the world, environmental defenders continue to experience censorship, threats, physical attacks, kidnappings, disappearances and even death because of their work fighting climate change, deforestation, pollution and other environmental issues.

"Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 1,500 environmental defenders have been killed for their work, according to Global Witness, a human rights and environmental NGO. The figures for 2023 look like more of the same. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 in 2022. And those figures are considered a low-end estimate."

Read more:
news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-

#EnvironmentalActivists #WaterDefenders #EnvironmentalJustice #GlobalWitness #Mongabay #ReaderSupportedNews
#IACHR #ExtractiveIndustries
#Mining #Logging #LandDefenders #WaterIsLife #HumanRights
#Capitalism #Greed #Corruption
#CorporateColonialism #LatinAmerica #Phillipines #India #Indonesia #Honduras #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #PublicOrderAct #SilencingDissent #HR9495 #CriminalizingDissent

Mongabay Environmental News · Why is violence against environmental defenders getting worse? Five things to knowIn January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico. The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement. In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted […]
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DoomsdaysCW

#JustStopOil #protesters arrested after 10 minutes under UK’s ‘repressive’ new #AntiProtestLaws

The #UK is following in other #European countries footsteps with new powers to break up the #climate group's slow marches.

By Euronews Green
Published on 31/10/2023

"More than 60 #CimateActivists have been arrested in #London under the UK’s 'repressive' new anti-protest laws.

"Just Stop Oil protesters were taking part in a ‘slow march’ around Parliament Square yesterday morning (30 October), demanding an end to new #oil and #gas licenses.

"Within 10 minutes, Metropolitan police arrived - blocking their path and forcing activists off the road. When this proved unsuccessful, videos and photos show police kneeling on and handcuffing protesters, before carrying them into vans.

"This is the first time that the Met have made arrests under section 7 of the #PublicOrderAct 2023, which bans any activity that 'interferes with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure in #England and #Wales.'

"It’s part of a wider European crackdown on #DirectAction protests. #France and #Germany have taken an #AntiTerror approach to some #demonstrations; toughening #surveillance and #detention laws and even launching dawn raids on the homes of #LastGeneration members."

Read more:
euronews.com/green/2023/10/31/

euronewsOver 60 Just Stop Oil activists arrested for blocking London roadThe UK is following in other European countries footsteps with new powers to break up the climate group's slow marches.
#BigOilAndGas#Fascism#Corporatocracy
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Dr Ro Smith

Last week, Suella Braverman signed off a ‘statutory instrument’ to edit protest law. It changed the legal definition of ‘serious disruption’ in the Public Order Act 1986 to mean simply ‘more than minor’.

Pledge a donation to support the Liberty and Civil Liberties Trust's legal challenge:

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-bra

CrowdJusticeSupport our legal case to stop Braverman’s power grabLiberty challenges injustice defends freedom and campaigns to make sure everyone in the UK is treated fairly.
#ukpolitics#protest#RightToProtest
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elliot 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️‍🌈

"Democracy has finally been destroyed by heroic Tories" via @LauraKT

"Finally, the #Tories have amended the #PublicOrderAct 1986 to make #protest super fucking illegal, unless ministers and #police approve of them first … redefining the meaning of disruptive protests to 'anything more than minor'."

The post is satire, but really, I despair of the state of #UKPolitics, its utterly useless so-called opposition, and its lack of interest in #HumanRights

normalislandnews.substack.com/

Normal Island NewsDemocracy has finally been destroyed by heroic ToriesBy Laura K
#RightToProtest
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Freedom Press

Stripping away our right to dissent
Netpol’s Kevin Blowe rounds up the set of incoming laws which threaten to outlaw all but the most useless forms of protest..

Nothing quite illustrates how a spark can seem to catch and then fail to fully ignite than these two grim facts. There are young people in prison in Britain today because they came onto the st
freedomnews.org.uk/2023/06/04/
#ActivismAndLaw #KevinBlowe #netpol #Protest #PublicOrderAct

Four policemen stand around a person, one is writing in a notebook. They are standing in front a wall with graffiti on it
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Bob Jamieson

Public Order Bill: Labour REFUSE to back SNP bid to repeal law

LABOUR have refused to support the SNP’s efforts to repeal anti-protest legislation – calling their attempt “a stunt”.

The SNP brought forward a motion to repeal the Public Order Act – which gives police in England sweeping powers to crack down on peaceful protest – but Labour said they would not back it.

thenational.scot/news/23527102

The National · Public Order Bill: Labour REFUSE to back SNP bid to repeal lawBy Hamish Morrison
#PublicOrderAct#SNP#Labour
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Pauline von Hellermann

I have to add one more section from the #Monbiot article (really, so good and important), as this a key nexus in how all this works:

"Police and press are two tails of the same beast. The head of media at the Metropolitan police is a former crime reporter at the Daily Mail."

Aaron Thierry (sadly not on here) did a great Twitter thread today showing all this, and also how the #ProtestBill and #PublicOrderAct really were responses to #ClimateEmergency action

twitter.com/ThierryAaron/statu

TwitterDr. Aaron Thierry on Twitter“I got the chills reading @GeorgeMonbiot's latest column on the draconian police powers of the new ‘Public Order Bill’. But to understand how we got here we need to take a step back and look at the way these laws have been called into being. It's a wild story🤯 🧵”
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Lorna Woods

For those interested in the #PublicOrderAct, the House of Lords has just scrutinised the some draft regulations &
"expressed its concerns around the process of reintroducing measures as secondary legislation that had recently been defeated during the passage of primary legislation, without offering good reasons, noting that secondary legislation is subject to less parliamentary scrutiny than primary legislation."

parliament.uk/business/lords/m

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Pauline von Hellermann

The whole #Monbiot piece ⬆️ is a mustread

“These are the state-of-emergency laws you would expect in the aftermath of a coup. But there is no public order emergency, just an emergency of another kind, that the protesters targeted by this legislation are trying to stop: the collapse of Earth systems. We are being compelled by law to accept the destruction of the living world.”

#ProtestBill#PublicOrderAct#ClimateEmergency
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