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Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves (www.cnn.com)

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[+] NateNate60@lemmy.world -32 points 2 months ago (8 children)

In late July, a London court found Gethin and four other members of the Just Stop Oil activist group guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022

Regardless of your opinion on these particular cases, Just Stop Oil's tactics are probably among the least effective protest strategies ever

[–] MrMakabar 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Shutting down oil refineries seems like a very effective form of protest to me.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That stuff is cool, but I'm pretty sure they're referring to stuff like throwing soup over famous paintings (or rather, the glass covering famous paintings). I have to agree with them if that is what they mean; these actions are far far too easy to present as just vandalism for its own sake, and there's no obvious connection between the targets and the intention of the protests.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Just Stop Oil's first protests were directly shutting down oil terminals, then oil companies bought private laws to stop that so they moved on to other, at the time legal, methods such as "slow marching". These were then also made illegal.

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