Not content with dragging the chain on #ClimateChange action, #Australia now has begun a new era of imprisoning climate activists who hold up traffic or try to protect native forests from logging. I mean it’s not like we’re in an #ExtinctionCrisis or anything right? The Sydney Morning Herald reports: “Climate activist Deanna Marie ‘Violet’ Coco will spend at least eight months in prison for blocking one lane of the Harbour Bridge by standing on the roof of a truck holding a lit emergency flare in April.

Coco, a 31-year-old Fireproof Australia and Extinction Rebellion supporter, plead guilty to seven charges, including disrupting vehicles, interfering with the safe operation of a bridge, possessing a bright light distress signal in a public place, failing to comply with police direction, and resisting or hindering a police officer.”