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#Activist, 97, among dozens arrested in #Australia #climate protest
26 November 2023
Sydney, Australia, Nov 26 (EFE).- "Dozens of protesters, including a 97-year-old man, were arrested on Sunday during a #ClimateChange protest off Australia’s east coast that disrupted operations at the country’s biggest coal export port.
"#ClimateActivist group #RisingTide had organized the protest to block the traffic of coal cargo ships in the port of Newcastle since Saturday.
"The group said on its Twitter account that at least 59 people have been arrested so far.
"Since Saturday, groups of 50 to 60 protesters have been taking turns in rostered two-hour shifts getting on canoes and inflatable boats and preventing ships from leaving the port.
"Among the protesters who went out to sea was Alan Stuart, a 97-year-old religious pastor.
"Stuart said he was doing it for his grandchildren and future generations after being pulled out of his boat by the police.
"'I am doing this for my grandchildren and future generations because I don’t want to leave them a world full of increasingly severe and frequent #ClimateDisasters,' he said. 'I am so sorry that they will have to suffer the consequences of our inaction. So, I think it is my duty to do what I can and to stand up for what I know is right.'
"Rising Tide claims that the protest prevented more than half a million tonnes of coal from leaving the Newcastle port by the time the demonstration ended.
"Protesters demand that the Australian government stop all new projects that involve the use of fossil energy and confront the #ClimateCrisis more decisively.
"The climate crisis is one of the big issues of political debate in Australia, a country exposed to the effects of #droughts and #ExtremeTemperatures.
"Australia is the world’s second largest exporter of thermal coal and the largest exporter of cooking coal."
When 97 year old religious pastors are getting arrested for trying to stop fossil fuel projects, we have to ask ourselves about the motives of those who have them arrested.
It’s not extremist to want your children and grandchildren to be able to survive on this planet. We know the only slim chance of that being possible is if we keep fossil fuels in the ground. It seems science is allied with religion in this case…it’s #BigOil and puppet leaders killing us.
@JugglingWithEggs @DoomsdaysCW
"motives of those who have them arrested"
Those who arrested them are doing what they're ordered to do ("following orders", "doing their Job" is following orders)
Someone[s] up the pecking order gave those orders. Follow that to the 'top' and ask those people what are their motives (I'd wager it's money). Having written that, "following orders" is often also because if they don't, they lose their Jobs (AKA as lose #money)
@scientist @DoomsdaysCW in the UK the Tory government has moved swiftly towards criminalising all forms of protest. A protest can be just one person and people can be apprehended and charged by the police on the belief that they may intend to join a protest - they don’t have to have participated. Such legislation enables the police ‘to carry out their job’. Our politicians have stated those engaging in environmental protest are extremists.
@JugglingWithEggs I thought I read that just possessing superglue or a bike lock can get one in trouble. Yikes! @scientist
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW Tory translates traitor to humanity
@JugglingWithEggs @DoomsdaysCW
In other words, what we'd expect to happen if a government was more interested in protecting the 'status quo (money, industry, etc, AKA "business as usual") rather than life on this planet.
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW
They can't differentiate between different forms of protest. They don't want decent, like with the Tory whip, we are meant to toe the line of government narritive and direction.
If we did that our protest would involve walking around in endless circles due to all the U turns they keep making.
@zleap @scientist @DoomsdaysCW protest has been scarily circumscribed in England. While it’s technically still possible - and Tories are keen to say this - in practice, there are far, far less protests taking place than pre-Covid, because of the impossible hoops that organisers have to go through and even when complying and working closely with police can still be deemed to break the law (witness the 52 republican arrests at the King’s coronation).
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW let me be one of the first to point out that these are changes to the criminal law in England (and possibly Wales) but do NOT apply in Scotland (notwithstanding your use of the term ‘UK’)
@strathearnrose @scientist @DoomsdaysCW apologies - you are quite right, these terrible changes only apply to English law.
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW not your fault ‘cos I know the wonderful media are too lazy to print the truth of it
@strathearnrose I've made that mistake before as well. Thanks for the correction!
@DoomsdaysCW like I said, I’m sure it’s because of lazy reporting in the first place, so don’t mind it when I see it on here (tho’ I will likely flag it up 
)
@strathearnrose Sounds good! Thanks again!
@scientist @JugglingWithEggs @DoomsdaysCW it’s always useful to know there’s a criminal law comparison available just up the road
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW this might be useful at this juncture. (Oh, so "protest" is illegal? Okay so don't "protest" and witness how ridiculous the regime gets)
https://canvasopedia.org/2017/06/21/new-york-times-topple-dictator-peacefully/
@JugglingWithEggs @scientist @DoomsdaysCW and the Westminster government congratulated extreme right-wing, fossil-fuel & dark-money funded junk tank, Policy Exchange for their contribution to the framing & drafting of the legislation, in the wake of PE commissioning a former Met Police Commissioner to author a report “demonstrating” that Extinction Rebellion is an extremist, neo-terrorist organisation
As always, follow the money