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Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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TLDR, Australia is passing strict anti-protest laws and the police are bought by oil giants.
Seeing as the UK did something similar, laws against protests appear to be the new weapon against climate activism.
Outlawing protests is a surefire way to radicalize protestors. If you're gonna break the law anyway might as well go all out.
Do you want pipelines blown up? Because this is how you get pipelines blown up.
History is always going to look back at the climate protestors fondly. It's frustrating that so much is standing in the way for the obvious long-term choices.
The US has also been passing laws to clamp down on protesting in the wake of the Dakota Access, BLM, and Stop Cop City protests.
The Drilled podcast is doing a season about the global legislative shift now.
Funny how right-wing protests are not considered a problem.
When we're all struggling to find food, water or livable homes, we'll look back in gratitude at how governments did all they could to save us from the inconvenience of teenagers asking them to take action.
Jesus fucking Christ what a mess
The police everywhere are capital's occupying army.
Can we please all accept that free market capitalism is the death of democracy?