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The evidence is in: Protests can persuade people, and maybe even change how they vote, according to recent studies.
Apr 11, 2025
"If we define peaceful protest as designated protest zones that don't cause any public inconvenience we've more or less defined it out of existance.
Past protest movements (civil rights, anti-war, suffrage) were disruptive in a way that modern whitewashing understates."
-- Zeke Hausfather, "A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate lead @stripe , writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth , IPCC/NCA5 author
British director of Human Rights Watch attacks ‘dangerous hypocrisy’ of government
Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting “a dangerous precedent” around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK director of Human Rights Watch has said. Yasmine Ahmed accused the Labour government of hypocrisy over its claims to be committed to human rights and international law. Ahmed said: “We’re at a stage where we’re talking about the … dangerous hypocrisy of what the UK government is saying and doing, and also the fact that the international community and the UN have [raised] and continue to raise the alarm about how this UK government responds to protest, and in particular climate protest.” In the UK “laws criminalising protests undermine democratic rights”, the NGO says in its latest annual world report, published on Thursday, adding that in the past year “the UK continued to crack down on and criminalise climate protests”. New powers granted to police by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 have had the effect of undermining “free speech, peaceful assembly, and democratic rights in the UK”, the report says. The cumulative effect of the laws, which newly criminalised or introduced harsher penalties for a range of protest tactics, as well as giving police greater discretion about when they can intervene in protest, has made taking part in climate activism increasingly risky, with the effect that fewer people are willing to risk the legal consequences. Ahmed said: “They have introduced laws which mean that the circumstances where the police can interfere and stop protesters are now much more expansive than they were.
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Moscow has labelled the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) "an undesirable organization."
To the Putin dictatorship, any group which tells the truth about Russia these days is "undesirable".
Russia can't hide its ecocide in Ukraine which was put into spectacular focus by its destruction of the Kakhovka dam. Though Russia is also busy creating environmental problems within its internationally recognized borders.
Moscow has labelled the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) "an undesirable organization," saying the independent nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the environment and protecting endangered species was "being used as a facade to carry out projects that create threats to the country's security in the economic sphere." The move, which follows a decision by Russia in March 2022 to label the organization a "foreign agent," forces the nonprofit to cease all activities in Russia. According to a statement from the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office on June 21, the WWF posed a threat to economic development, specifically citing activities it said were meant to hinder Russia's extraction of natural resources from the Arctic.
The Kremlin doesn't appreciate the WWF bringing to light Russia's environmentally unsound practices in its fossil fuel industries.
WWF campaigns against oil and natural gas industries were aimed at “shackling” Russia’s economic development, the statement added. The Prosecutor-General's Office also said it believes that the fund is developing restrictions that may become the basis for "transferring the Northern Sea Route in the direction of the U.S. exclusive economic zone” though the WWF’s website makes no mention of such a project.
In other words, just more paranoid bullshit from the Kremlin.
The fund, which works closely with the United Nations, operates large environmental advocacy programs for many causes, including deforestation, freshwater preservation, and endangered species protection. The "undesirable organization" law, adopted in 2012, was part of a series of regulations pushed by the Kremlin that have forced scores of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations to halt operations as the government stifles civil society. The Prosecutor-General's Office statement also notes that WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, provided support to Russian nonprofit organizations, such as Friends of the Baltic and Sakhalin Environmental Watch. The two organizations are included in Russia's register of so-called foreign agents and were found liable for uncoordinated, unauthorized climate protests. The move against the WWF comes after Russia shut down Greenpeace, another major environmental NGO, in May. Also labeled as “undesirable,” Greenpeace was similarly accused of intervening in internal affairs.
Somebody needs to declare Putin "undesirable" for the planet and shut him down for good.
The recent surge in radical climate activism is being met with a huge backlash. Does civil disobedience work or is it harming the movement? And why is everyone mad at the messenger, and not the perpetrators? We deep dive into the past and the present to find answers.
We don’t have time.
Seeing comments under articles about climate protests (and protests in general) are always so baffling and contradictive.
Several groups held an Earth Day Rally and went to the headquarters of a major regional energy company - no violence, just exercising their right to protest, as written in the Constitution that so many Americans claim to honor.
“Get their names and shut off their energy.”
“They should get jobs so they’ll have less time on their hands.”
And of course there’s the whole “yet you participate in society, curious!” remarks. “Stop using laptops, phones and other electronic devices then.” “I bet they drove to get to that event,” etc.
I wouldn’t pay mind to these comments if they weren’t so prevalent, and so indicative of how capitalism has essentially brainwashed us by the masses. Use more of your time working instead of fighting for what you believe in. If you disagree with what this company is doing, said company should shut off your power. (Of course a lot of this also stems from hatred of the specific groups who were doing the protesting - leftists, poc, people within the LGBTQ+ community, so on).
And it’s just... they aren’t grasping how gravely serious this is. You can scream your head off for half a century, provide boundless evidence from top scientists, and little will change. We argue and argue, vote people in hoping someone in a higher office will actually do something only to find that they were bought, just like the one before them, and the one before that one.. There’s those who really don’t get it, and there are those who remain willfully ignorant of what’s happening.
We just don’t have time for this anymore. “But changes are expensive!” Is that not worth saving us and countless other species from extinction? Is money more important than healing the only planet we have?
The clock is ticking and the higher ups are twiddling their thumbs or actively pushing the buttons that will trigger our devastation. And swaths of people are just treating it as socialist-lib-commie propaganda, not to be taken seriously. Another “made up” problem.
It’s so goddamn infuriating. Make your billions, then. You will still die, and your children and grandchildren might not get to reap the benefits from your depravity, because you participated in making our planet uninhabitable.
The Metropolitan Police Department identified the man as Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colorado.
https://twitter.com/NeeNeinNyetNo/status/1517995699236974598?cxt=HHwWjMC5-fbCgJEqAAAA
Found on twitter. Cited from the thread: “Crazy how a guy self immolates in the country's capital in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day in protest of climate change inaction and it's barely a blip on the media and social radar. No politicians need to come out and address it. No calls for investigations. No social discussion. Just a few reports that a guy did it and that's it.”