Ariadne<p>"Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral" <br />- George Monbiot writes in today's Guardian (22.02.2023) -<br />"It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury"<br />...<br />"Police and prosecutors now have so many laws to choose from that they can both prevent any meaningful protest from happening and ensure that protesters’ defences are as weak as possible.<br />...<br />In 2020, a judge found three Extinction Rebellion protesters guilty of breaching a section 14 public order notice. But he is reported to have told them: “Thank you for your courtesy, thank you for your integrity, thank you for your honesty. You have to succeed.” He is said to have continued: “This is going to be my last Extinction Rebellion trial for a little while. I think they only allow us to do so many of these before our sympathies start to overwhelm us.”<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/22/climate-activist-criminals-heroes-truth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/feb/22/climate-activist-criminals-heroes-truth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InsulateBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InsulateBritain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtinctionRebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ExtinctionRebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fff</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgeMonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeorgeMonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtestRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtestRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateProtest</span></a></p>