Climate defenders were prosecuted for continuing a nonviolent protest in London after being ordered to stop. The case was dismissed on the grounds that the order was not communicated to them properly.

That was the right result, but the reason for it means that human rights are not safe in the UK. In effect, this judge turned this case into a warning shot.

Canadian thugs arrested journalist Brandi Morin as she was covering their dismantling of a homeless indigenous people's camp.

How Greta Thunberg was arrested and charged with a crime for a nonviolent climate defense protest.

The thug that conveyed the threat to Ms Thunberg did so in a refined way, avoiding verbal brutality. However, the substance of the demand supported a policy that kills a substantial number of people now, and will kill much larger numbers in the future. The message of the protester at the trial was right on:

Fossil fuel corporations are most responsible for the climate crisis, and we will continue to hold them to account no matter what the state throws at us. We have to, because nothing is worse than losing everything.

The charge against her was later dropped on a technicality, but the threat to repress future protests remains active.

George Monbiot: *In the UK and around the world, those who challenge rich corporations are being hounded and crushed with ever-more inventive penalties.*

*Why in the UK, can you now potentially receive a longer sentence for "public nuisance" — non-violent civil disobedience — than for rape or manslaughter?*

Monbiot connects this to plutocracy.

See the recent Greta Thunberg example.

*One toilet for 500 people: death and disease as Palestinians flee to Rafah.*