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🧵Tens of thousands of people have been out on the streets of London since Friday, calling for #ClimateAction.

@morss_alex has been monitoring media coverage.

If you get your news from TV, broadsheets or tabloids, chances are you won't have heard anything about #TheBigOne.
But although you didn't hear about the tens of thousands of people protesting in London, chances are that you did hear about that one guy who jumped on a #snooker table in Sheffield.

None of this remotely surprising. It's yet another example of the #ActivistsDilemma in action. Image
When non-activists criticise groups like JSO for engaging in disruptive protest it's common for them to say they don't mind protest if it's done in a way that doesn't affect people going about their business. That's what activists have been doing this weekend. It doesn't work.
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🚨 BREAKING: ROADS BLOCKED IN LONDON

At 8:00am, #JustStopOil supporters marched slowly onto the road at Shepherds Bush Green, demanding @RishiSunak halt all new oil and gas licences.

#CivilResistance #A22Network #COP27 #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #M25 #FreeLouis #FreeJosh
💬 Hannah Smith, 20, a student from London said:

“Why is the government refusing to listen? The people of this country have had enough, and we deserve better from our leaders. Don’t let them convince you that we can’t make change. When we move as a collective, we have power.”
🚧 ROADS IN ALDWYCH NOW BLOCKED

We are Just Stop Oil.
We are demanding.
That the British government.
Immediately halts.
All new oil and gas licences and consents.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #London #UK #Government #FossilFuels #CivilDisobedience #COP27
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🧑‍⚖️ Earlier today, supporters of Just Stop Oil marched from Downing St to Westminster Magistrates’ Court and stood in solidarity with fellow supporters who had plea hearings there today.

#FreeLouis #FreeJosh #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough Image
🚔 Metropolitan Police have begun remanding supporters of Just Stop Oil in custody to immediately charge them for alleged obstruction of the highway.

#OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #UK #Government #FossilFuels
🏛 We will not be intimidated by changes to the law and we will not be stopped by private injunctions sought to silence peaceful people. We understand that these are irrelevant when set against the collapse of society as we know it.

#CivilDisobedience Image
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🚨 BREAKING: ROLEX STORE SPRAY-PAINTED ORANGE 🚨

⌚️ At 8:30am today, two Just Stop Oil supporters sprayed orange paint from a fire extinguisher over the premises of @ROLEX in Knightsbridge, demanding that the government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences. #FreeLouis
⏳ Jennifer Kowalski, 26, an environmental scientist from Glasgow, said:

“There's no point in having jewel-encrusted watches when they're destined to be lost in floods and climate change is happening now. An energy crisis is happening now."

#FreeJosh #JustStopOil #A22Network
"We do this because we want to protect the things and the people we care about. I'm not willing to stand by as the refusal to improve life for everyday people causes my loved ones to suffer.”

#CivilResistance #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
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A week after the #TomatoToss and there's a new (just accepted) paper that looks at this sort of confrontational #protest by @ExtinctionR and its effects on the general public! Some thoughts after the past week's discussions @RobbWiller @Revkin @MichaelEMann @Revkin @amywestervelt
The authors use data from a longitudinal study in the UK (so of the population) to assess the effects of the #protest on attitudes, sense of efficacy, support for policy, and "views about the severity and imminence of environmental crises" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
The results show proximity to the #protest made respondents more supportive of pro-environmental behaviors and policies, but reduced respondents' willingness to pay the price. The authors note they are consistent with the philosophy of @ExtinctionR, which sponsored the actions
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🎉 SURPRISE, WE’RE AT IT AGAIN THIS MORNING

🏛 Yesterday, Susan Hall, chairman of the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee told the Telegraph:

“The silent majority are sick to the back teeth of having their lives disrupted by the gridlock that these demonstrations cause.
“It makes no sense to me at all that the police are not able to remove these people.”

💀 Well, Susan, ordinary people are sick to the back teeth of having to accept that their children won’t have liveable future.

#JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough #OccupyWestminster
🛢 It makes no sense to anyone at all that the Government is pushing through new fossil fuel licenses, when 77% of the UK public want the Government to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #UK #Government
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🚨 BREAKING: Arrests taking outside Buckingham Palace 🚨

Metropolitan Police officers have begun arresting 30 ordinary people currently peacefully blocking the Mall.

#FreeLouis #CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughIsEnough
These actions take place as the UK launches its first oil and gas licensing round since 2019 on Friday, aiming to award more than 100 licenses to ramp up domestic oil and gas production and destroy the lives of every future generation.

#OccupyWestminster #ClimateCrisis
The disruption will end when the Government makes a statement that it will halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Meet at 11 am outside Downing St. every day of October to Occupy Westminster.
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Steven Jarvis (66, Bideford), on why he took non-violent direct action at the massive Kbury oil terminal. Steven is now in prison, along with 55 others, for contempt of court. All now face up to two years in prison & unlimited fines.

#CivilDisobedience #October1st
"I'm breaking this injunction
because it's unjust.
The establishment,
the judiciary
is protecting
the oil companies
that are killing us.

#BlockadeWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
"The taxpayers
of Warwickshire
are supporting
the protection
of this oil company
and it's this oil company
that is causing the
cost of living crisis,
that is causing the
death of the taxpayers
of Warwickshire.

#CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis #UK #Government #fossilfuels
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Steven Gingell (Proprietor, 56, Manchester), on why he took non-violent direct action at the massive Kbury oil depot. Steven is now in prison, along with 55 others, for contempt of court. All now face up to two years in prison & unlimited fines.

#CivilDisobedience #October1st
"I'm here because
I have to be here,
I've got no choice.
I've got three
lovely children
And what future are
they going to have..
I really fear for their lives."

#BlockadeWestminster #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis
"Let's take a pick of the
unfolding series of
crises that we face this week
in Pakistan.
A third of the
country is underwater.
Those people who are least
responsible are up to their
necks in water.
It's criminal it's genocidal
what's happening it's fucking
outrageous."
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Mitch (57, Derbyshire), on why they took non-violent direct action at the massive Kingsbury oil depot. Mitch is now in prison, along with 55 others, for contempt of court. All now face up to 2 years in prison & unlimited fines.
#CivilDisobedience #October1st #BlockadeWestminster
"We need to stop
burning fossil fuels and
change to green renewable
energies like solar wind and water.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis #CostOfGreedCrisis
"Yet the government has
just announced over one hundred
new gas and oil projects. This is madness."

#UK #Government #fossilfuels #CivilResistance
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*URGENT MESSAGE*
Under no circumstance take to the streets with violence or weapons if #Trump is arrested, indicted etc. Trump is very well taken care of. The tyrannical @FBI & #AGMerrickGarland are again lying about a narrative about Patriots, #MAGA & want you to act out! DONT⤵️ Image
⬆️ Give they what they need. Instead, share out the information in masses. If they don’t get the kinetic response they are hoping for, then they look stupid “AGAIN” and it will wake up more people. The goal right now is the court of public opinion and we are winning that war ⤵️ Image
⬆️Wether you believe in Conspiracies, Q, etc the one FACT is undeniable is “WE THE PEOPLE” have to defend & fix this country. Wether the “White Hats” Trump or any good guy comes to help is extra. The future your children grow up in is your responsibility. Win Local Offices⤵️ Image
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What was Mohandas #Gandhi doing carrying wounded #British soldiers off the battlefield in #SouthAfrica in 1899? Gandhi was merely leading by example, in the ambulance corps he set up to support the British against the Boers in the Second Boer War (1899-1902). 1/12
#war
But why would Gandhi support the British, especially since he had experienced the humiliation of racial discrimination in South Africa soon after he got there? It was #OnThisDay in 1893 that Gandhi was thrown off a train for refusing to comply with racial segregation laws. 2/12
This was more than a decade before Gandhi evolved his concept of #civildisobedience. He spent 21 years (1893 - 1914) in South Africa and went on to organize the #CivilRights movement, to raise the status of the indentured #Indian population there. 3/12
#racism
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We're in a Climate & Ecological Crisis, Sixth Mass Extinction, a threat to us all. Fossil fuels, though they account for over 80% of carbon emissions produced by humans, continue to be widely used. That's massively destabilising our biosphere, yet our Parliament says/does nothing Image
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#tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. Read⬇️ #TeachTruth
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/coin…
Despite massive FBI campaign to find "burglars" of Media, Penn. office who exposed COINTELPRO, their identities remained secret until they came forward in 2014. See ⬇️ on @democracynow. For lessons on #CivilDisobedience

Watch @1971film by @JHamilton71. democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_wa…
Textbooks say little of this FBI role in U.S. history, but it’s essential background for today.

HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson using COINTELPRO primary docs. Students are gripped by docs.

Free. See ⬇️ for gr. 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
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When the 68 uprising graffitied Paris with “Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!” who thought this call to action would meet its alter ego years later in the UK?

For what is Insulate Britain if not: Be Impossible, Demand the Realistic?

🧵A #Thread.
In the face of the #climate emergency happening now, XR recognises the need for disruptive actions that highlight the severity of the crisis. Insulate Britain is playing a vital role in shifting the Overton Window around public awareness and urgent government action. #ActNow
The recent attempt to ban a form of protest from happening anywhere in the UK is a warning to all of us who dare to stand up for truth; the UK government is coming for us all. It is also a complete vindication of our resistance.

#RightToProtest #RightToCare #RightToLife
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We, together with @esXrebellion, leaked another part of the upcoming IPCC report.
Check this out 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
mronline.org/2021/08/23/lea…
The leaked documents can be found here: scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-…
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Our reponse to the IPCC AR6: Scientific establishments are starting to say what climate activists have been saying for decades: we are beyond the precipice, our only hope is a political revolution.
Climate tipping points are already breached, our weather violently disturbed, our food supplies at risk, our water endangered, our homes threatened, and our prospects for survival under siege.
Terrifyingly - this is the conservative view, the inescapable reality wrapped in a soft and agreeable tone. The truth is we have been murdered in our sleep, our futures stripped and sold like assets, gambling chips in the games of billionaires.
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1⃣8⃣ Citizens Actions to Stop the #COVID19 Scam

ACTION N°1: Don't be afraid

➡️ For more information, watch this video until minute 3:44 (from a computer 🖥️ or a laptop 💻, to activate the subtitles in your language): Image
1⃣8⃣ Citizens Actions to Stop the #COVID19 Scam

ACTION N°2: Switch off TV

➡️ For more information, watch this video between minute 3:44 and minute 8:43 (from a computer 🖥️ or a laptop 💻, to activate the subtitles in your language): Image
1⃣8⃣ Citizens Actions to Stop the #COVID19 Scam

ACTION N°3: Take right precautions

➡️ For more information, watch this video between minute 8:43 and minute 9:15 (from a computer 🖥️ or a laptop 💻, to activate the subtitles in your language): Image
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50th anniversary. #tdih 1971 A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt and destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/coin…
Despite massive FBI campaign to find "burglars" of Media, Penn. office who exposed COINTELPRO, their identities remained secret until they came forward in 2014. See ⬇️ on @democracynow. For lessons on #CivilDisobedience

Watch @1971film by @JHamilton71. democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_wa…
Textbooks ignore this role of FBI in U.S. history, but it’s essential background to understand what’s happening today.

HS teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson drawing on COINTELPRO primary docs.

Free. See ⬇️ for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
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THREAD 22 of writing against the 🪖-coup. It might be on emotional shock and feeling numb. It might be on the suffering of others. It might be on a new advocacy group - or on all of the above. #March4Coup #CivilDisobedienceMovementMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Artist: Kuekool
1. This post by #Rohingya #activist @Ali_Jinnah_222 captures two things I want to write about today: being at a loss of words in regard to one’s own feelings - and being in #solidarity with the suffering of others. #March4Coup #CivilDisobedienceMovement
2. All of my research in #Myanmar has been with/about ethnic #minorities. My interlocutors are #Muslims and #Hindus locally referred to as “Burmese #Indians”. All of my research assistants happen to be #Kachin #Christians. I have #Chin friends, too
#March4Coup #CivilDisobedience
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I DON'T WANT
DICTATORSHIP
I JUST WANT
Boyfriend

You Fucked With The Wrong Generation

Stop Military Government
Stop Military Regime
Respectour Votes
Release Ourleaders

Myanmar, 08/02/21
#WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar Image
Say "No" To Dictatorship

Say "Yes" To BDSM Image
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If you really want to make a change in the world, do something hard like #nonviolent #resistance. Read up and learn #satyagraha or change. It takes #strength & #courage; physical force is forbidden even in the so-called most favorable circumstances.

satyagrahafoundation.org/satyagraha-the…
If your cause is #righteous, Gandhi believed, the movement would speak for itself.

My personal justification for it is #psychological/#neurological (#CNS/#HPA).

If you use #violence, well the one with the biggest #ego or the biggest ego-extension (guns, tanks, war) will win.
Removing tools of violence (words, arms) from the equation, you form a mirror.

It's not easy though. You'd have to refine/drop/manage/elevate past your own #ego.

People - depending on personal history & psychology - sometimes become enraged at what they see in the #mirror.
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