Today, I aim to get arrested. It is the only real power climate protesters have | George Monbiot
by George Monbiot from on (#4SNEV)
By putting our bodies on the line and risking our liberty, we make this great neglected issue impossible to ignore
- Update: George Monbiot was arrested just before 3.30pm on 16 October 2019
A few hours after this column is published, I hope to be in a police cell. I don't yet know what the charge will be, where I will be arrested or when, but I know that if I go home this evening without feeling the hand of the law on my sleeve, I will have failed. This may sound like a strange ambition, but I believe it is a reasonable one.
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