Currently in San Francisco — October 16, 2023: Overcast Monday

The weather, currently.

Monday will be one of those funky San Francisco days that is both warm-ish (temps in the high 60s or even low 70s inland) and overcast. Cloud cover will be fairly persistent throughout the day, and the fog will become especially intense overnight and into Tuesday morning. Winds will stay below 10mph, and overnight lows will be around 60.

— Britta Shoot

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.

— Abbie Veitch

What you can do, currently.

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