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Currently in Philadelphia — October 16, 2023: Partly sunny, partly chilly
Plus, a look into the global criminalization of climate protests
Abbie Veitch & Abe Musselman
October 15, 2023
The weather, currently.
Partly sunny, partly chilly
This weekend’s weather gave me a bit of whiplash. I stayed inside all day Saturday, staying dry and watching the rain turn on and off. The next thing I know, I’m waking up to bright blue skies on Sunday.
Monday will be somewhere in the middle, with about 50% cloud cover and perhaps just a bit of rain toward the end of the day. High today will be 62F, in keeping with the mild fall we’ve been having this year, and humidity will be higher than usual at around 60%.
It’s weather that matches how I feel today: no way in particular.
— Abe Musselman
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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