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Criminal conspiracy aimed at disturbing the peace.Five Just Stop Oil activists, including one of its co-founders, 58-year-old Roger Hallam, on July 18 were sentenced to unprecedented prison terms for planning to block the M25 motorway in November 2022:a Zoom call was sufficient for the conviction which, according to the sentence, demonstrated "the intricate planning and sophistication of the disruptive action" and constituted "irrefutable proof" of the existence of a criminal conspiracy. Who are the Just Stop Oil activists? Just Stop Oil is a British group of climate activists, founded in 2022 and known for its disruptive actions, such as blocking major roads, disrupting sporting events, throwing cornmeal paint on monuments such as Stonehenge.The group calls its protest tactics actions of “non-violent civil resistance to pressure the British government” on the issue of anthropogenic climate change.The first Just Stop Oil protests aimed to stop al...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. 2023 will be remembered as the hottest year ever, the year of extreme weather events, heat waves, droughts, devastating fires, floods, the year of the criminalization of climate activists and one of the United Nations Climate Change most controversial ever he brought at the beginning of the end of the era of fossil fuels, without however putting their gradual elimination on paper. The agreement reached at COP28 and our future In early 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) spoke peak oil, gas and coal consumption will be exceeded for the first time before 2030.“It's not a question of 'if', but 'how soon' - and the sooner it happens, the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA.According to a scenario proposed by the International Energy Agency, based on the policies declared by the governments of various states around the wo...

In one of the now classic road blocks, climate activists prevented the procession from continuing by sitting in front of the Coca Cola float

The Supreme Court unanimously rejects the deportation plan in Rwanda Update November 16, 2023:The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on Wednesday 15 November declared it illegal the British government's plan to forcefully send asylum seekers to Rwanda while their applications are assessed. The ruling confirms what was established by the Court of Appeal, according to which there would have been a risk of exposing the people transferred to Rwanda to serious human rights violations.Based on the principle of "non-refoulement", a person requesting asylum cannot be sent back to their country of origin if this puts their safety at risk. The Supreme Court therefore unanimously decided that the choice of Rwanda did not provide adequate standards of security and respect for human rights, both under British law and international law. The ruling does not prohibit the sending of migrants to another country, however the government's plans which promised an iron fist against the "boats" have been si...

Last May, images of Kenmure Street in Glasgow went around the world.A peaceful protest he blocked the Home Office van (the British Ministry of the Interior), which arrived to pick up two immigrants.People continued to flock throughout the day, until the two were released. Nothing is more beautiful than solidarity. In response to a Home Office immigration raid during Eid, the people of Glasgow mobilised, fought back and got their neighbors released 💕pic.twitter.com/OnQscqN6Dr — Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) May 13, 2021 Similar mobilizations do not arise suddenly, due to a surge of solidarity and word of mouth through social media.Instead, they arise from front-line community activism to support asylum seekers and migrants, and against the practice of surprise raids – the dawn raids. Already since the end of April, the Scottish Refugee Council in Glasgow raised the alarm about the possibility that the raids were being used as an eviction tactic, thus affecting t...