In this episode, join host Dr Miranda Melcher as we delve into the fraught and controversial world of climate change protests, with expert guests Juanita van Lunen, an attorney based in The Hague, where she specialises in criminal law and demonstration rights in the Netherlands, and Mirjam Herrmann, a climate activist and law student in Germany, and member of the association Rückendeckung für eine aktive Zivilgesellschaft (RAZ) e.V., which provides legal and psychological support to Letzte Generation and other climate activist groups.

In this first part of our conversation, we discuss how they got involved with the climate movement and some of their experiences so far.

Key Highlights:

• Learn About Climate Protests: Learn about the fraught and controversial world of disruptive protests on climate change.
• First-Hand Experience: Explore the experiences of Juanita van Lunen and Mirjam Herrmann and legal advisors to protestors.
• Environmental Catastrophe: Understand the urgency which leads climate protestors to pursue increasingly disruptive forms of protest to demand action on climate change.
• Social Justice Issues: Gain a deeper understanding of the difficult balance which must be struck between the right to protest and the rights of others to go about their lives without undue disruption.
• Access to Justice: The discussion highlights the significant challenges in ensuring access to justice for climate protestors who have increasingly been criminalised, brutalised, and even cast as terrorists in their pursuit of climate justice.

About Our Guests:

• Juanita van Lunen is a criminal law attorney in the Hague, and specialises in demonstrations law. She regularly advises climate protestors, both before and during protests, and following arrest.
• Mirjam Herrmann is a law student and climate activist, and one of the first climate protestors in Germany to be imprisoned under anti-climate-protest laws. She is a member of the association Rückendeckung für eine aktive Zivilgesellschaft (RAZ) e.V., which provides legal and psychological support to Letzte Generation and other climate activist groups

Why Listen? This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in environmental justice, climate change, human rights, freedom of speech!

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• Stay tuned for part two, as well as our next podcast conversation: with Ashfaq Khalfan, Director of Climate Justice at Oxfam USA!
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Keywords: Climate change, climate emergency, climate crisis, climate Justice, environmental justice, climate protest, right to protest, freedom of speech, Klimakleber, Extinction Rebellion, Letzte Generation, human rights, podcast episode, Just Access.

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