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Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”
11 hours agoEric Worrall
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Essay by Eric Worrall
Speaking to World Socialist Web Site, convicted Aussie climate activist Deanna Coco explains why we need a form of democracy which doesn’t involve public elections to solve the climate crisis.
Australian climate activist Violet Coco speaks on her jailing for Sydney Harbour Bridge protest
Our reporters 27 December 2022
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In a serious attack on basic democratic rights, Coco was initially sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment, with at least eight months without parole, and denied bail. She was the first to be sentenced under laws introduced by the New South Wales (NSW) state Liberal-National government to impose fines of up to $22,000 and jail terms of up to two years for protests on roads, rail lines, tunnels, bridges and industrial estates.
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VC: People are becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of action on the climate and ecological emergency and that is a threat to the people who are making a lot of money off the fossil fuel industry. The more we make noise about the climate and ecological emergency the more they are threatened. It makes sense that they are going to try and silence us, and we can’t let their bullying tactics get in the way of protecting the habitability of our planet.

Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”
Speaking to World Socialist Web Site, convicted Aussie climate activist Deanna Coco explains why we need a form of democracy which doesn’t involve public elections to solve the climate crisis…

Australian climate activist Violet Coco speaks on her jailing for Sydney Harbour Bridge protest
After being sentenced to 15 months’ jail for briefly blocking a lane on the bridge, Violet Coco discussed with the WSWS about the political implications of climate change and Australia’s anti-protest laws.
www.wsws.org
I put it in therioes cause Thiers absolutely zero concrete scientific evidence that man is causing the earth to warm ....
If their were don't ya think some of us would say hey we need to change course ?
And by different democracy she means a totalitarian police state lol