Four climate activists convicted of causing public nuisance, but no jail term

Four climate protesters, including a man who glued his head to the road in order to block traffic in central London, have escaped jail terms. Matthew Tulley, 44, Ben Taylor, 38, George Burrow, 68 and Anthony Hill, 72, staged a…

Opinion | Climate Change: The Time to Act Is Now – The New York Times

More from our inbox: All Together Now: G is for Grandpa, and for Good Why Reports of Sex Abuse Are Often Delayed The Loss of Insect Life The Manuscript Thief Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,…

NSW police drop claim that protest involving Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco blocked ambulance

Police have backtracked on their claim that a climate protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year blocked an ambulance with its sirens running from responding to an emergency, an assertion repeatedly referred to in the jail sentence of demonstrator…

Four Insulate Britain members convicted after London street blockade

Four climate activists who blockaded a street in London in a campaign to press the government to insulate homes have been found guilty of public nuisance. A jury at Inner London crown court found the protesters, who are members of…

Today’s climate activist ‘criminals’ are tomorrow’s heroes: silencing them in court is immoral | George Monbiot

To tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”: this is the oath defendants in an English court must take. But when David Nixon sought to do so, he was sent to jail. Nixon, who had taken…

‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on ​protesters

Melissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…

Climate activists guilty of smashing Barclays HQ windows spared jail

Seven climate change activists who were found guilty of causing more than £100,000 of damage by smashing windows at the headquarters of Barclays Bankwere spared jail by a judge. Zoe Cohen, 52, Carol Wood, 53, Sophie Cowen, 31, Lucy Porter,…

LETTERS: Hancock Commons development; that awful global warming – Colorado Springs Gazette

Hancock Commons development Recent Gazette articles about the proposed Hancock Commons project raise some questions about city and county leadership commitments to affordable housing. According to the reports, the City Council has designated the site an urban renewal area, and,…

Malaysia Abolishes Mandatory Capital Punishment for 11 Crimes Including a Non-Violent Drug Offense

Introducing concepts of “proportionality” as part of efforts to “improve the criminal justice system,” Malaysia has abolished the mandatory sentencing of the death penalty for 11 different offenses. Hailed as a victory for death penalty abolitionists, the ruling, rather than repealing the death penalty altogether, places sentencing decisions into the hands of the judge to […]

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UK’s Leftist Labour Party Comes Out Against Eco-Warrior Oil Blockades

Britain’s left-wing Labour Party has come out against blockades of oil depots by eco-warriors amid a growing cost of living crisis and widespread reports of fuel shortages across the country. The energy crisis in the UK, spurred on by a…