URGENT: join me and respond to the consultation on petroleum licensing in Northern Ireland before 12 April 🚨

Take 2 minutes and show your support for a ban on onshore exploration to fight the #ClimateEmergency 👉 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/make-yo…

I'm really happy to have a pod in this exhibition highlighting the coloniality of the climate crisis and extractivism and the amazing work of Save Our Sperrins and Communities Against the Injustice of Mining
Running from now-11th May LAB Gallerie
Slí Eile Ecojustice Ireland EJNI Extracting Us Collective

Honoured to have Helen Pankhurst moderating our first panel of the day at the #ClimateOfInjustice conference.

Here's why she's here:

Raj Chada Paul Powlesland Shell Indigo Rumbelow Just Stop Oil Huda Ammori #ShutElbitDown Palestine Action Stephen Gingell was the first person to be convicted under the 2023 public order act... 6mo for walking in the road for 30 mins!

'Disruptive protest is really effective... so it is made illegal'

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Raj Chada Paul Powlesland Shell .Indigo Rumbelow - 'The mask is truly off here... Just Stop Oil protestors are being threatened with unlimited costs by one of the worlds largest oil companies!'

'Action is Eloquence.'

Stephen Gingell, the first person to be jailed under the 2023 Public Order Act for a climate protest,pays tribute to Palestine Action's capaign of direct action.

Stephen did 3 months in jail for slow walking on the road.

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Indigo Rumbelow on how Shell’s injunction shows the dominance of fossil fuel companies and the fossil fuel state.

We cannot be surprised by the criminalisation of people. We need to realise that this is just a litmus test of the system.

The state should be in the dock, not us!

“This is a private law system in which rich corporations are making up their own rules” - Raj Chada on the influence of the corporation in the law

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Honoured to have Helen Pankhurst moderating our first panel of the day at the #ClimateOfInjustice conference.

Here's why she's here:

Professor David Whyte Director of the Centre for Climate Crime & Climate Justice:

'This an extremely dangerous moment for democracy in this country and we must do what we can to support the targets of those extreme measures and campaign for their reversal'

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Looking forward to catching some of this Centre for Climate Crime & Climate Justice event on Climate Injustice today and thinking through the critical work of those acting to save the planet, and its implications for social reproduction and life-making

Cross Examination Podcast Dr. Sarah Benn explains she is facing a tribunal next week.

The GMC say she is undermining public confidence in the medical profession.

She is arguing her actions were necessary to protect the life of her patients.

Our next panel is now starting examining disciplinary action - legal and medical ethics and the case of Dr Sarah Benn. Chaired by Tom Cross from Cross Examination Podcast reminding us that “what constitutes public confidence changes over time”

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I’m being inspired and enraged this morning at #climateofinjustice conference Centre for Climate Crime & Climate Justice LawyersAreResponsible . Hearing from activists and lawyers about the intense repression of protest in a time of emergency. With Raj Chada Helen Pankhurst Just Stop Oil ++

The writer Natasha Walter is among those attending today's #ClimateOfInjustice conference

'The government is moving fast at the moment to criminilise protesters... I think it is so important to remember that protest is actually an important part of a functioning democracy'

Ayo Khalil talking about the crucial work of supporting students when they speak out against injustice, such as the genocide in Palestine, and face university disciplinaries, which can take on a chilling and harsh atmosphere of their own #ClimateOfInjustice

Dr Ayo Khalil - “it’s our duty to speak out against these ills of society that are all intertwined. Our regulators - the state and institutions are suppressing that and saying that we should comply with authoritarian and oppressive norms”
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Isabella Kaminski Prof. Richard Vogler, Sussex Law explains that;

Juries acting on their conscience 'is a fundamental right upon which all others depend. Without it all our civil liberties are at risk!'

Isabella Kaminski 'Juries have the power to return what is condescendingly called a “perverse verdict” but are never told this by judges in case it encourages them to do so. Trudi Warner’s offence seems to be to have let this particular jurisprudential cat out of the bag'

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Isabella Kaminski Retired social worker Trudi Warner held up a sign outside a court reminding juries of their right to act according to their conscience.

'I've now been referred to the Attorney General... its Kafkaesque!'