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EXPLAINER: Why people are worried about SA's new anti-protest laws, and why you should be too.
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👩🏾‍⚖️ What these laws do: they increase the penalties for "obstructing a public place" So let's start by defining what a public place is at law
#ProtectProtest #AusLaw #AusPol
A thread:
👩🏾‍⚖️ What these laws do: they increase the penalties for "obstructing a public place" So let's start by defining what a public place is at law
#ProtectProtest #AusLaw #AusPol
S4 Summary Offences Act SA defines it as:
👩🏾‍🦽A place to which free access is permitted to the public (like parks, civic squares etc.)
🎞️A place to which the public are admitted on payment of money (stadiums or cinemas etc)
🛣️ A road, street, footway etc.
legislation.sa.gov.au/lz?path=%2Fc%2…
👩🏾‍🦽A place to which free access is permitted to the public (like parks, civic squares etc.)
🎞️A place to which the public are admitted on payment of money (stadiums or cinemas etc)
🛣️ A road, street, footway etc.
legislation.sa.gov.au/lz?path=%2Fc%2…
Now to the changes in the Bill rammed through the SA Lower House. This is what they do:
⛔️Increase penalty for obstruction of a public place from $750 to $50,000. A 60-fold increase to the maximum penalty. Just wild.
⛔️Increase penalty for obstruction of a public place from $750 to $50,000. A 60-fold increase to the maximum penalty. Just wild.
1/Did Violet Coco’s imprisonment outrage you? The full story's even more shocking.
Police and lawmakers in NSW are subverting democracy in *unprecedented* ways.
Making dozens more face Violet's fate.
A breakdown - how we got here + what we can do🧵
👇👇👇 #NSWPol #ProtectProtest
Police and lawmakers in NSW are subverting democracy in *unprecedented* ways.
Making dozens more face Violet's fate.
A breakdown - how we got here + what we can do🧵
👇👇👇 #NSWPol #ProtectProtest
2/April: Anti-protest law passed w full Lib/Nat & Labor support. You can now be punished w up to 2 years in prison + $22K fines for disrupting a major road.
June: 32 activists arrested for peaceful climate march thru Sydney under S144G (Roads Act).
Sound bad yet? Read on.
June: 32 activists arrested for peaceful climate march thru Sydney under S144G (Roads Act).
Sound bad yet? Read on.
3/Here’s how it's unprecedented: someone arrested for a nonviolent protest would normally face police bail immediately after arrest. These peaceful marchers (arrested for a traffic charge) were jailed, refused bail & in some cases held in police cells up to 35 hrs.
It gets worse
It gets worse
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Tweeting live from the Downing Centre on unceded Gadigal land as peaceful climate activist #VioletCoco seeks bail after being sentenced to 15 months jail after blocking a road for 28 minutes.
This is a democracy!
NO JAIL FOR CLIMATE ACTIVISTS!
#ProtectProtest
Tweeting live from the Downing Centre on unceded Gadigal land as peaceful climate activist #VioletCoco seeks bail after being sentenced to 15 months jail after blocking a road for 28 minutes.
This is a democracy!
NO JAIL FOR CLIMATE ACTIVISTS!
#ProtectProtest
Coco is the SIXTH peaceful climate activist to be sentenced to jail in NSW in the last year or so.
More than a dozen other activists are facing jail time under the Perrottet government’s bipartisan anti-protest laws.
#ProtectProtest #ClimateEmergency
amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…
More than a dozen other activists are facing jail time under the Perrottet government’s bipartisan anti-protest laws.
#ProtectProtest #ClimateEmergency
amp.theguardian.com/australia-news…
Perrottet claims that disruptive protest is inconvenient to #OurWayOfLife?
Protest is what’s given us our way of life!
#ProtectProtest
Protest is what’s given us our way of life!
#ProtectProtest
1. Today’s Supreme Court decision striking down NY state’s gun licensing law throws into question a range of gun regulations. This raises many serious concerns, but a less noticed one is its impact on the First Amendment rights of protesters. #ProtectProtest (1/11)
2. The US has seen a rash of protests/counter-protests with firearms. Protests with guns are much more likely to be violent. They are also intimidating. As one friend said: “I won’t go to a protest where I know there are guns. It’s too scary” @Everytown acleddata.com/2021/08/23/arm…
3. Guns at protests can also directly damage our democracy. Imagine if those who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6th had been allowed to be armed. It likely would have been much more violent. Luckily, DC has some of the strongest laws in the country restricting guns at protests.
