I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful protest after blocking a motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what I have learned
I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what I have learned
Not directly related to climate change, but Just Stop Oil has been in the news a lot.
In the following days, we are sickened by the racially motivated hate riots whipped up by social media posts and exacerbated by irresponsible political rhetoric. Later, those arrested for violent assault and arson will be sentenced to an average of two years. The contrast between their sentences and my own feels grim and stark. Fellow prisoners tell me they are shocked by the discrepancy.
disgusting
Mild inconvenience apparentl is worse than fucking arson.
Well, I guess the lesson to learn here is to commit arson instead...
The way these protesters is a disgrace for our democracies. Why are there no riots? Why are we so numb towards these injustices?
Why are there no riots? Why are we so numb towards these injustices?
Because most of the outrage is downplayed as whackjobs and is downranked by social media companies so exposure is always low.
Why do you think the government either controls the social media networks or have internet bot farms (50 Cent Army, Hasbara, Indian IT cell, )?
US Air force was the most active city in reddit in 2013. I'm sure they were doing nothing nefarious at all, but reddit had to scrap the city reveal after that. hmm…
They shape the narrative they like, anything else is shoved into the dark corner.
Because we don't have the kind organizing that sparks riots. We have a bunch of nonviolent civil disobedience instead.
Oh we do. You just have to say a brown asylum seeker murdered the girls in Southport and you get weeks of it.
Isn't it "funny" how I read the title and instantly knew it was the UK?
Same thing happens in Germany. Though I think the sentences are shorter
Wasn't Just Stop Oil that one movement mainly funded by an oil company?
I don't have any facts, so I'm very prepared to be wrong about that
If I recall recall correctly the daughter of some oil barron has developed a conscious and is spending daddies money on sensible causes, like envirmental Organisations, Just Stop Oil beeing among them.
It got spun into "funded by the oil Industrie" to discredit them, but that has no base in reality.
Edit:
Jup.
Funding
Just Stop Oil reports that all their funding is through donations,[12] with the group accepting both traditional currency and cryptocurrencies.[14] In April 2022, it was reported that Just Stop Oil's primary source of funding was donations from the US-based Climate Emergency Fund.[15] Through that fund, a notable donor to the group has been Aileen Getty, a descendant of the Getty family which founded the Getty Oil company.[16] In response, the Climate Emergency Fund stated that Getty did not work in the fossil fuel industry herself.[8]
Thanks for fact checking me, good stuff
good