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Jun 30, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
"People acting in #CivilResistance is the only thing that is cutting through the veil of misinformation, apathy and denial."
Lou is in prison for her campaign of #Nonviolent #CivilDisobedience to #InsulateBritain.
Read what she said to Judge Silas Reid below...
I am more proud of my civil resistance with Insulate Britain than anything else I have done in my life.
I feel immensely privileged to take nonviolent direct action to challenge the hideous injustice being imposed by the few on the many.
May 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🚨BREAKING: HIGH NOON AT CROWN COURT AS 24 PEOPLE INCLUDING LAWYERS, MEDICS AND QUAKERS DEFY JUDGE WHO JAILED DEFENDANTS FOR SPEAKING ABOUT THEIR MOTIVATIONS
Read more: insulatebritain.com/2023/05/15/bre… 🧵 (1/7)
(2/7) In a poignant and unprecedented move today, a group of twenty-four ordinary people - 7 medical professionals, 3 Quakers, a former Police Officer, a former lawyer, 2 teachers, a Church of England priest & ten others - are displaying signs around Inner London Crown Court… 🧵
They had stopped traffic on Bishopsgate on 25/10/21, other supporters who were part of the same roadblock have been acquitted. 🧵
Read in full: insulatebritain.com/2023/04/18/bre…
Alyson Lee, 64 from Derby said;
“As soon as the opportunity arises I will be back out there doing what I can to force the government to act appropriately in this crisis. This awful surreal situation demands a lot more than usual protest – it demands #CivilResistance.” 🧵
(1/4) David Nixon, 36 from Barnsley, Kai Bartlett, 21, from Shrewsbury, Alyson Lee, 64 & Christian Murray-Leslie, 79 both from Derbyshire have been told to appear for sentencing today 2PM at Inner London Crown Court 🧵
(2/4) The 4 were part of an #InsulateBritain roadblock at Bishopgates on 25/10/21
David Nixon has already spent 4 weeks in prison for telling the #WholeTruth during trial & defying the ruling preventing defendants speaking of their motivations, #FuelPoverty or climate 🧵
Jan 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
During yesterday's trial, Stephanie Aylett, 28, from St Albans, was charged with contempt of court by Judge Reid for disobeying his ruling against referring to the climate crisis, insulation or fuel poverty during her defence.
🧵 #InsulateBritain#FuelPoverty#CostOfLivingCrisis
“I'm deeply disappointed that the court system is complicit in criminalising peaceful protest. It horrified me that Judge Reid deliberately stripped away all our legal defences and told us that we would be in contempt of court if we spoke about our motivations, strategy or aims.
Nov 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
HUNGER STRIKE AT HMP BRONZEFIELD WILL CONTINUE UNTIL BORIS AGREES TO INSULATE BRITAIN
Emma Smart, an auntie, biologist and lifelong supporter of action on climate justice, continues her hunger strike at HMP Bronzefield into its fifth day.
“I am doing the only thing I can do. I have stopped eating in solidarity with those who will have to make the choice between heating and eating this winter because of our government’s cowardice”