I dream that one day this travesty of justice will be avenged. Non-violent protest to alert others to #ClimateBreakdown should not be punished with 5 year prison sentences.
It will be the CEOs and boards of #BigOil companies in the dock for knowingly polluting and frying our planet and in the process killing untold numbers of humans, animals and other life forms.
“Today is a dark day for peaceful environmental protest. This sentence should shock the conscience of any member of the public. It should also put all of us on high alert on the state of civic rights and freedoms in the United Kingdom.”
Michel Forst, the UN’s special rapporteur on environmental defenders, who attended part of the trial.
“What sort of country locks people away for years for planning a peaceful demonstration, let alone for talking about it on a Zoom call? We’re giving a free hand to the polluting elite robbing us of a habitable planet while jailing those who’re trying to stop them – it makes no sense.”
Greenpeace UK’s programme director, Amy Cameron
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There is no democracy. Only illusion of freedom and democracy.
All countries are dictatorships, just in different skins and ways.