Sabotage for the climate? A court case from Sweden | Stefan Gsänger interviews Janine O’Keeffe

As the climate crisis is more and more escalating without
appropriate reactions from governments, climate activists have
started new forms of protest, including civil disobedience. Many
of those cases have landed at courts and some public prosecutors
have recently started action against climate groups which aim at
criminalising whole organisations. Consequently, even the United
Nations warned against one-sided, undemocratic action against
climate groups. 


Janine O’Keeffe is not only co-host of this podcast
empower4climate, but also one of the founders of the new climate
movement, starting in Sweden in 2018 and spreading across the
globe. She has been involved in civil disobedience protest, by
stopping traffic on a freeway in May 2022, and she will soon face
her case to be processed at a Swedish court. 


Stefan talks with Janine about why she sees the need to use such
forms of protest, how she will justify her activities and how she
expects the courts to decide. Which ways of action and protest
promise to bring the necessary results, the effective mitigation
of the climate crisis?