Nukewatch Quarterly Summer 2019
A jury in London has cleared 25-year-old David Durant and 52-year-old Roger Hallam—a co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion movement—of all charges. The jury acquitted the pair of climate activists of vandalism charges May 9, after they defended their acts of civil disobedience as a proportionate, preventative response to threats posed by the global climate crisis. Jurors at Southwark Crown Court in London unanimously cleared Durant and Hallam of charges stemming from their efforts as part of an ultimately successful campaign to pressure King’s College London to divest millions of dollars from fossil fuels. On Jan. 19, 2017, Hallam wrote “divest from oil and gas” in water-soluble chalk-based spray paint on university property. The two were arrested days later for spray painting the walls of the university’s Great Hall. —Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, May 10, 2019
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