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April 20, 2021

Hundreds of Climate Scientists Warn Against Criminalizing Peaceful Protests
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Meanwhile, over 400 climate experts have warned that governments are
criminalizing and silencing peaceful environmental protesters, including
Extinction Rebellion, the Sunrise Movement and School Strike for
Climate. Their open letter reads, "It has become abundantly clear that
governments don't act on climate without pressure from civil society:
threatening and silencing activists thus seems to be a new form of
anti-democratic refusal to act on climate."


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