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No it’s cool. Megacorps can rape and pillage the earth, fund climate denial, and fuck with economic balances like fair pricing. But god forbid people take a stance and fight back. Gotta back the businesses. Because in the end they’re the only ‘people’ who will remain after humans are dead.
Yes this is unfortunately the risk of direct action. Protests that aren't inconvenient will rarely have an impact. And inconvenient protests are often illegal in some way. Seeing the state try to stop dissent by enforcing the laws is not a surprise and the protestors likely knew this could happen.
Instead this kind of coverage should make people angry and encourage more protests. It'll be difficult to prosecute thousands for trespassing and other minor crimes and that's when protesting really starts to have an affect.
Also, in civil rights movements the point is to be arrested for breaking an unjust law. Then your group publicizes it so people can see how unjust the law is.
The problem is, you need to break a law that is actually unjust. Laws against trespassing and vandalism aren't really controversial, so being arrested for breaking them isn't a shock to anyone.
Should anyone be allowed to go wherever and paint whatever slogans anywhere? If it's legal, people you disagree with are going to do it too.
The problem is that they are protesting the lack of laws and regulation. So they can’t break laws to show they are unjust. They can take direct action against those that are most responsible for climate change, and people have been doing that. They are also frequently charged, penalized, fined, and imprisoned. They are bringing attention to a problem and hoping enough people notice.
If the courts are ineffective to combat polluters, and the state is ineffective to combat polluters, and the politicians are ineffective to combat polluters, it becomes the people's job to combat polluters.
But what if we solve the problem by making it illegal for the people to combat polluters?
Calling for violence is against the subreddit rules so I’m afraid I cannot answer this question.
You're on Lemmy, but it's probably against rules here too...
Sublemmy rules*
I’ve been 3 day banned and comment deleted for it here before so I won’t say it.
We blow shit up (by which I mean, of course, have a big balloon party)
The wording of the article here, 'can't rely on beliefs' is doing a lot of work, first it frames legitimate concerns about climate change as 'beliefs', and second of all it implies that people are somehow dodging criminal damage charges based on their subjective feelings, which isn't what's happening at all. Instead, the UK government is stripping away a layer of legal protection for protestors which was established in the Criminal Damage Act of 1971 (for more info google 'the consent defence').
The UK has been drifting into authoritarianism for a long time, but in the last few years, the repeated attacks on people's right to protest have become far more transparent. There is a high-ranking UK judge called Silas Reid who became famous for forbidding mentions of climate change in his courtroom, and recently threatened a jury with prosecution if they acquit a group of climate protestors.
It's sad to see newspapers spin this into such neutral language. This is a brazen assault on human rights.
And people buy into this crap!
"Why do you drive a car or use a phone if you're fighting for the climate!?!?" We all want the tech jackass, we just don't want to destroy the environment we live in. Is being clean and careful really that much to ask? According to the Government, it seems so.
I’m really glad that the most powerful governments in the world believe that property is more important than people and the planet. Great priorities, makes sense.
/s obviously
Conservatism is a scourge of death. Conservatives are pathologically driven to hold authority over normal people to ensure the misery and death of normal people. Harming normal people brings a deep, fulfilling satisfaction to a conservative.
It is instinctual for a conservative to do whatever they can to cause misery, sickness and death. This is who they have always been throughout history. And, historically, they cannot be stopped by pacifism.
Conservatism is a deadly plague that is long overdue for a cure.