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Currently in D.C. — October 16, 2023: Cloudy and cold
Plus, a look into the global criminalization of climate protests
Myriam Vidal & Abbie Veitch
October 15, 2023
The weather, currently.
Mostly Cloudy
The cloudy weather continues Monday. During the morning the sky will be partially clear, but as the day progresses it will get cloudier. The temperature will also be low with a highest of 60°F around 1, which will drop to mid-50s by night. The good news is that it won’t rain, and now we have the perfect excuse to go get our favorite hot beverage.
As I read once in a sticker: “Happiness is a hot drink on a cold day,” (anonymous.)
What you need to know, currently.
Climate activists are no strangers to facing arrest and criminal charges for climate protests. Just last month, over 100 climate activists were arrested in New York City.
However, a “crackdown” on climate protests in Europe is raising alarm bells for human rights experts. The crackdown extends past Europe, Inside Climate News reports that the criminalization of climate protests is, “an increasingly global trend.”
In an interview with On the Media, climate reporter Amy Westervelt discusses how the Atlas Network, a collective of right-leaning think tanks, has worked to reframe climate protests as extremist and dangerous. This, in part, has led to an uptick in the criminalization of climate protests.
Westervelt covers this topic extensively alongside climate journalist Geoff Dembicki in “The Real Free Speech Threat” an investigative series on her podcast, Drilled.
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