Greta Thunberg goes on trial over London oil industry protests | Swedish climate campaigner among five arrested outside conference for oil bosses and government ministers
by silence7
Greta Thunberg goes on trial over London oil industry protests | Swedish climate campaigner among five arrested outside conference for oil bosses and government ministers
by silence7
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She’s definitely one in a billion
According to the article they changed their name from Oil and Money conference to Energy Intelligence Forum (EIF).
>chief executives of Aramco, Repsol, Shell, TotalEnergies and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, were among the people lined up to speak
She was approached 1.12pm by police and arrested at 1.15pm.
Also
>Suella Braverman, the then home secretary, used a statutory instrument to lower the threshold at which police could enforce public order restrictions on protests
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>Joanna Warrington, an organiser with Fossil Free London, said: “The UK criminalises **peaceful climate activists** like Greta whilst rolling out the red carpet for climate criminals in Mayfair hotels.
Honestly she is on trial because of persecution at this stage it is ridiculous.
The very definition of a hero.
May she inspire young people around the world to take the action my shameful generation failed to take.