London court acquits activist Greta Thunberg It became known that the London District Court on February 2 acquitted 21-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and four other people.
Activists were accused of refusing to obey police during a climate protest in October 2023.
I feel like making protest legal was a mistake. Not because I believe protest should be illegal, but because by making it legal and giving it a specific definition it’s power has been taken away. Why would anyone listen to a cop during constructive civil disobedience??
Pretty good take to be honest
a fairly significant portion of the population are always going to come down on the side of “the law is the law”
Any law restricting protest is a bad law and it’s a citizen’s duty to break it.
cool, but plenty of people are going to disagree with you, and what’s the point of protesting if your goal isn’t ultimately to affect change?
Ms. Thunberg and her colleagues are the heroes we do not deserve.
And this kind of news makes my Friday.
