"Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign donations to state lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest laws – which now shield about 60% of US gas and oil operations from protest and civil disobedience, according to a new report from Greenpeace USA."

"It’s part of a global strategy reported by the Guardian to silence, discredit and criminalize environmental activists and Indigenous rights defenders opposed to polluting energy, mining and other extractive projects that are incompatible with meaningful climate action."

“Frontline activists should not face extreme, life-altering legal risks for putting their bodies on the line to keep our planet habitable.’"
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/fossil-fuel-company-donate-lawmakers-anti-protest-exxon-koch
#law #Lawmakers #JudicialHarassment #FossilFuels #industry #protests #AntiProtestBill #IndigenousRights #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateEmergency #habitability

#UKLabour are scum

#AntiProtestBill

Even the Women's Institute provides more opposition than the Labour Party 😬

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/system-change/joint-letter-members-house-lords

#AntiProtestBill #ukpolitics

Liberty has started legal action against the Home Secretary. She is due to sign off protest restrictions she has no power to create.
#AntiProtestBill #ukpolitics

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/liberty-launches-legal-action-against-home-secretary-for-overriding-parliament-on-protest-powers/

Lord Coaker has announced Labour will abstain on the fatal motion in the House of Lords. Again, there is no opposition from the so-called opposition party 😤

#AntiProtestBill #Labour #ukpolitics

Jenny Jones doing great work in the HoLs resisting authoritarian Bills. Sign her petition, asking Labour Lords to back her motion on stopping the Right to Protest Bill on the 13 June.

#ukpolitics #AntiProtestBill #LabourParty

https://chng.it/zhBFh9R8dv

Honest Government Ad | Anti Protest Laws (SA)

https://youtu.be/kecnSHmznic

#SouthAustralia #AntiProtestBill

PEN America Urges #Wisconsin Legislators to Reject #AntiProtestBill

PEN America warned that a pending bill could gravely endanger the right to protest. SB 296/AB 279 would define “riot” so broadly that anyone present at a protest where violence occurs, even if they did not participate in such acts, could face felony charges punishable by up to three-and-a-half years imprisonment. It would impose additional misdemeanor penalties for anyone who obstructs traffic during a riot or “incites or urges” groups of people to participate in a riot, with no definition for what constitutes incitement or urging.

https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-urges-wisconsin-legislators-to-reject-anti-protest-bill/