{"id":58357,"date":"2021-06-23T07:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58357"},"modified":"2021-06-23T07:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:51:27","slug":"it-isnt-nice-to-block-the-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58357","title":{"rendered":"It isn\u2019t nice to block the courtroom\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It isn\u2019t nice to block the courtroom\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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A bit of news from the home front here at Small Farm Future, and a few reflections based around it. Today, my wife received a suspended prison sentence for disrupting a court as an act of protest against government inaction on climate change. Here is a short\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0she made explaining her behaviour and making the case for radical action beyond business as usual, with her own vision focused around small-scale farming. Please share it with your networks if you\u2019re minded to \u2013 pebbles, ripples and all that.<\/p>\n

At an earlier court appearance, she was troubled to be told by a magistrate that her right to protest climate policy had to be balanced against the right of people such as car drivers to go about their business. In her view, this encapsulated the distorted priorities of our decisionmakers in effectively trading off present niceties with the very stability of Earth systems that enable human and other lives.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0an excerpt from the livestream of the court disruption, and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0she is talking outside the court after her sentence with Shel, her partner in non-crime, with some good points well made by both of them, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if her course of action today was the right one. She and I have discussed many times the choices to be made in the face of the world\u2019s present looming crises and the limited powers of individuals, including the individuals in government, to effect change. I don\u2019t think there can ever be clear answers to the question of what is to be done. But I\u2019m pretty sure that we do need to do\u00a0something<\/em>\u00a0orders of magnitude faster and deeper than current climate policies if we\u2019re to meet the challenge. So why not glue yourself to a courtroom? It\u2019s not as if anything else is working much better.<\/p>\n

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It isn\u2019t nice to block the courtroom\u2026 A bit of news from the home front here at Small Farm Future, and a few reflections based around it. Today, my wife received a suspended prison sentence for disrupting a court as an act of protest against government inaction on climate change. Here is a short\u00a0video\u00a0she made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[15683,141,2082,3745,3297,657,9738],"class_list":["post-58357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-chris-smaje","tag-climate-change","tag-courts","tag-law","tag-legality","tag-protests","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58358,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58357\/revisions\/58358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}