This could be significant - once people like Robert feel compelled to speak out at the scale of the injustice they are witnessing, the system starts to look vulnerable.

By this definition, the Metropolitan Police would welcome the sentencing of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst… #WholeTruthFive

The criminalization of climate protesters is a severe threat both to the climate and to our democratic systems — Oscar Berglund Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2024/07/in-the…

Last week’s sentencing of five Just Stop Oil activists can be interpreted as climate denial. Not outright denial of the facts, but a refusal of the implications — Rebekah Diski in London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/july…

The The Times and The Sunday Times reports more than 1,100 lawyers, academics, artists and celebrities have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the sentences given to five Just Stop Oil activists

The charge of a conspiracy to cause public nuisance, which the five Just Stop Oil defendants faced, treats protest movements as a criminal enterprise — Graeme Hayes & Steven Cammiss in The Conversation #WTF theconversation.com/just-stop-oils…

Court in Berlin rules German govt must slash air pollution by 35% by 2030. Great #CleanAir legal action from Deutsche Umwelthilfe and ClientEarth Europe clientearth.org/latest/press-o…

Hottest day on record

Climate change impacts and the transition to a low-carbon society are already posing fundamental challenges to key legal doctrines and principles — “Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer”, a new open access book by Julia Dehm Nicole Graham & Zoe Nay latrobe.edu.au/library/open-s…

“This week has seen one of the greatest injustices in a British court in modern history” Signed this letter to Attorney General, along with 1,100 others defendourjuries.org/wtf/

Within a few years, when the climate crisis renders life untenable… Judge Hehir himself will be in the dock — Stewart Lee #JustStopOil

Letter in Financial Times: “The UK is now one of the worst places in Europe to be a climate activist” Sophie Dembinski from Ecosia, Berlin #JustStopOil #ClimateActionNow

The day will come, and it won’t be too far away, when we reckon with their concerns — Elaine Crory on Just Stop Oil irishnews.com/opinion/the-da…

“anyone who is attending to the daily litany of new temperature records and extreme weather events can see where we are heading unless we take extreme evasive action” — letter in The Times and The Sunday Times from Jason Scott-Warren #ClimateActionNow

Climate change is the silent spectacle in this year's games — Tzeporah Berman #Olympics #heatwave

RIP Fredric Jameson. This is only a fraction of his work

Theory was the most exhilarating thing to happen to literary studies since the days of F.R. Leavis lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…