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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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It's not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems
There's been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.
Which is a pretty clear sign that those protests are working.
Sounds logical in theory, but in practice one blocking a road gets the same jailtime as a minor abuser.
It just goes to show how car-supremacist the court system is.