A judge has been hearing submissions today at the Royal Courts of Justice in the appeal by Dr Sarah Benn of the decision by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal to suspend her for five months for ‘misconduct’ as a result of her peaceful climate activism.
This thread🧵sums up the submissions heard on day one, as lawyers acting for Dr Benn set out their grounds for her appeal, supported by @theBMA [1/]
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Thanks to our great panel of speakers and to everyone who came along to join the discussion and plan for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice on 16 November. #COP29
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BREAKING 🚨: 65 climate groups, backed by trade unions, call on @RachelReevesMP to STOP prioritising shareholder profits and FUND a just transition for North Sea workers and their communities.
We need a proper industrial strategy that puts workers + communities at its heart.
It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest.
Thanks to @ChrisGPackham for the narration
Location: HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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The changes last year to English protest law aimed to suppress protest and scare us away from effective protest methods, through fear of arrest.
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Please see the letter we wrote to @YvetteCooperMP posted on our website
https://t.co/1cmp1NP2qY
Alongside a statement from @ForstMichel
https://t.co/Vy27BXHUO4
Today, 2 months after the record prison sentences handed to the Whole Truth Five, Defend Our Juries publicly launches the Free Political Prisoners campaign.
We will begin an escalating series of nonviolent civil disobedience, lawfully, in London.
PR: https://t.co/oGzqcKP5bi 1/3
Racist, anti-migrant, climate change denying, far-right parties are on the rise across Europe. The UK is no exception. Reform UK is holding it’s conference in Birmingham later this month. Everyone who cares about our planet & it’s peoples should come together to oppose them.
Writing letters, signing petitions, talking to politicians are all important in building a groundswell of support, but this takes years of campaigning & the world is staring down the double barrel of climate chaos and mass extinction.
We must #ActNow#UpgradeDemocracy
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