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via @DemocracyNow | 12 September 2024
'As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression. One of those prosecuted is activist Joanna Smith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas's renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her civil disobedience.
We speak to Smith just a week after her release, and to Linda Lakhdir, the legal director of Climate Rights International. "Countries who have held themselves up as beacons of rule of law are essentially repressing peaceful protest," says Lakhdir. Smith says the nonviolent action she took was intended to highlight the disparity between a sculpture of a child protected from the elements with a strong plexiglass case and the billions of children around the world left unsafe and vulnerable by climate change's effects. "The crisis is here now, it's unfolding in front of us, and our governments are failing us," she explains.'
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via @DemocracyNow | 12 September 2024
'As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression. One of those prosecuted is activist Joanna Smith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas's renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her civil disobedience.
We speak to Smith just a week after her release, and to Linda Lakhdir, the legal director of Climate Rights International. "Countries who have held themselves up as beacons of rule of law are essentially repressing peaceful protest," says Lakhdir. Smith says the nonviolent action she took was intended to highlight the disparity between a sculpture of a child protected from the elements with a strong plexiglass case and the billions of children around the world left unsafe and vulnerable by climate change's effects. "The crisis is here now, it's unfolding in front of us, and our governments are failing us," she explains.'
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Carry on emitting today and hope at some future date huge carbon sucking technology will solve the problem. Yet we know carbon is killing today, and global emissions are still rising.
Oil is more valuable than our culture, our heritage, our bodies. More valuable than the beautiful web of life on earth, more valuable than home.
#juststopoil
#climatecrisis
#globalwarming
![Instead of Global Warming which we all agree sounds Very Scary... | Vice [2018] | Just Stop Oil](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JC2yzMXa5CU/mqdefault.jpg "Instead of Global Warming which we all agree sounds Very Scary... | Vice [2018] | Just Stop Oil
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Carry on emitting today and hope at some future date huge carbon sucking technology will solve the problem. Yet we know carbon is killing today, and global emissions are still rising.
Oil is more valuable than our culture, our heritage, our bodies. More valuable than the beautiful web of life on earth, more valuable than home.
#juststopoil
#climatecrisis
#globalwarming")
