#VioletCoco #protest #noble

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/nsw-climate-activist-violet-coco-to-face-perth-court-c-10544484

#ClimateAction #auspol #VioletCoco #rightToProtest #appeal

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/15/climate-activist-deanna-violet-cocos-15-month-jail-sentence-overturned-on-appeal

“Deanna "Violet" Coco was last year handed a 15-month sentence with a non-parole period of eight months by a magistrate in the Local Court …

“During a successful appeal, District Court Judge Mark Williams today rejected the Crown's suggestion Ms Coco was a "danger to the community" due to her record of protest actions.

“He set aside the sentence and placed Ms Coco on a 12-month conditional release order, while convictions for two of her charges will remain.”

#VioletCoco #ClimateProtest #ClimateChange #Sydney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-15/nsw-court-climate-change-protester-jail-sentence-overturned/102097354

"Police have backtracked on their claim that a climate protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year blocked an ambulance with its sirens running from responding to an emergency, an assertion repeatedly referred to in the jail sentence of demonstrator Deanna “Violet” Coco.

"On Tuesday Alan Glover and Karen Fitzgibbon, two of the four people co-accused of blocking the bridge during a climate protest last April, appeared before the Downing Centre local court for sentencing over the protest.

"Magistrate Daniel Reiss sentenced each of them to an 18-month community corrections order and a $3,000 fine over the protest.

"But agreed facts tendered as part of the case revealed that the New South Wales police now concede that “no ambulance was obstructed from responding to an emergency as a result of the incident” during the April protest …

"The ambulance was directly cited by magistrate Allison Hawkins in sentencing Coco to a 15-month prison sentence last December.

"During her sentencing, both the prosecutor and Hawkins repeatedly cited the ambulance in reference to the seriousness of the offence."

#VioletCoco #ClimateProtest #ClimateChange #Sydney

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/07/nsw-police-drop-claim-that-protest-involving-deanna-violet-coco-blocked-ambulance

Previous thread:
https://aus.social/@jimrhiz/109544536653759348

RT @stopffsubsidies@twitter.com

Yes after jail time #VioletCoco is out on bail but still faces 15 months for blocking one lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, not to make a movie though, just to save the planet. Join us to fight for action on the #climatecrisis
https://www.stopffs.org/calendar https://twitter.com/danilic/status/1616944532565950465

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stopffsubsidies/status/1616997422525452292

A few months back Violet Coco was sentenced to prison after a protest blocking traffic on a few lanes of the Sydney Harbour bridge for 20min. Today Hollywood shuts down the entire bridge for 7 hours and nobody goes to jail. #ryangosling #emilyblunt #violetcoco #sydneyhardbourbridge #auspol

@drifthood just reading Kim Stanley Robinson 's The Ministry for the Future and maybe we are going to see these targetted attacks on climate wrecking organisations more and more. I think groups like extinction rebellion will shortly move from protest to direct action. After all if your going to be jailed for 15 months it might as well be for something with more climate positive outcomes that stopping traffic for a few minutes. #violetCoco #climate #kimstanleyrobinson

Senator @davidshoebridge will introduce a bill into Federal parliament which if passed would enshrine the right of peaceful assembly, overturning harsh laws in NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

UNSW law professor George Williams advises that the external affairs power in the Australian constitution allows laws to ensure conformance with international treaties and conventions.

#VioletCoco #Protest #Greens #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/greens-push-for-federal-right-to-protest-law-after-nsw-jailing-of-deanna-violet-coco

#auspol #VioletCoco #ClimateCrisis

#Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco reveals why she was prepared to risk jail time https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/14/climate-activist-deanna-violet-coco-reveals-why-she-was-prepared-to-risk-jail-time?CMP=share_btn_tw

#auspol #VioletCoco #ClimateCrisis

#Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco freed from prison while she appeals 15-month jail sentence https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/13/climate-activist-deanna-violet-coco-freed-from-prison-while-she-appeals-15-month-jail-sentence?CMP=share_btn_tw

RT @hughriminton
Climate activist #VioletCoco has won bail as she appeals a minimum eight months jail for disrupting traffic on the #Sydneyharbourbridge. Details @10NewsFirst

#VioletCoco has been granted bail and is coming home! But she still faces a possible 15 months in jail under Brother Perrottet's regime.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/13/climate-activist-deanna-violet-coco-freed-from-prison-while-she-appeals-15-month-jail-sentence

"A climate activist jailed for 15-months after a protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been released from jail after a judge approved her bail appeal.

"District court judge Timothy Gartelmann on Tuesday granted bail to 32-year-old Deanna “Violet” Coco, who was handed a 15-month jail sentence with a non-parole period of eight months earlier in December.

"“I am not satisfied the applicant would represent an unacceptable risk of endangering the community,” Gartlemann said."

#VioletCoco #ClimateProtest #ClimateChange #Sydney

Guardian live update https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/dec/13/australia-news-live-police-investigation-killing-six-dead-queensland-wieambilla-ambush-siege-politics-energy-anthony-albanese-gas-coal-power-prices-health-economy

"… activists linked to the climate group Blockade Australia have been charged under the laws, which introduced a two-year jail sentence for protests that block major roads, bridges or tunnels …

"The use of the new anti-protest laws – passed by the Coalition government in April with the backing of the Labor opposition – have been subject to intense criticism since Coco’s jail sentence.

"After her sentencing on Friday a senior UN official said he was “alarmed” by the sentence, while the head of Unions NSW, Mark Morey, called it “wildly excessive”."

#BlockadeAustralia #VioletCoco #ClimateProtest #ClimateChange #Sydney

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/12/at-least-a-dozen-climate-activists-face-jail-time-under-nsw-laws-used-to-lock-up-violet-coco

Just listening to #7am podcast from #schwartzmedia discussing #violetcoco and my view is that #magistratehawkins is just another tool of the #lnp in spite of there supposedly being a #separation of the #executive and the #judiciary.

I wonder if she will become the next #governor of #nsw

#Australia: "Climate protests are specifically intended to give a small, controlled taste of the major disruptions that climate change is already causing, and will cause on a much larger scale in future."
#VioletCoco #ClimateAction
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-12-09/climate-change-protests-jail-what-could-be-more-effective/101737704

RT @BrendanCarton@twitter.com

"Climate protests are specifically intended to give a small, controlled taste of the major disruptions that climate change is already causing, and will cause on a much larger scale in future."
#ClimateAction (see also #VioletCoco)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-12-09/climate-change-protests-jail-what-could-be-more-effective/101737704?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web via @ABCaustralia@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrendanCarton/status/1601461588556668929

RT @MakichyanA
In front of the Australian embassy in Berlin. In solidarity with brave #VioletCoco.
I think that the Australian government should free Coco and jail fossil fuel lobbyists. The war is not an excuse for canceling basic human rights and killing our planet.

#VioletCoco defense fund @ chuffed.org/project/95028 @kcfromaustcrime

“Violet Coco is in prison, meanwhile the fossil fuel people are really getting value for money.”

A brutally pertinent cartoon from First Dog On The Moon in today’s issue of @TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/violet-coco-is-in-prison-meanwhile-the-fossil-fuel-people-are-really-getting-value-for-money?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#VioletCoco #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #protest #activism #climate #environment #cartoon