Do you have anything you feel really strongly about? Are there things that worry you about your future, or the future of your children and grandchildren? If so, how far would you go to try and save the situation? Would you risk your liberty? And if so, what would you risk your liberty for?

We have so much to be grateful for as a result of protests of the past. Anti-apatheid marches, the Greenham Commons Women's movement, Suffrage and the American Civil Rights movement are just a few that spring to mind . There has always been crisis throughout history, and always a fight.

We are currently in a massive crisis, which fossil fuel companies have spent, and are still spending, billions on covering up. The crisis this time though is so massive it's hard to comprehend. We are on the cusp of a number of tipping points that will change all of our lives. We do not know how, but forecasts are not great. Catastrophic weather events such as hurricanes, fire and flooding will get worse, with the likelihood as a result that food and water will become scarce.

So despite all the science, why is nothing being done? We are in worse shape now than we have ever been. We need systems change, and we need it now.

Ordinary people, many of them from Cornwall, are taking desperate measures to be heard, and risking their liberty to do so.

So in a system where violent criminals are released early to make room in prisons, non-violent protesters are being incarcerated for caring too much. This system has led to one 78 year old grandmother, Gaie Delap, having to spend Christmas in jail because they couldn't find a tag of a suitable size to fit her wrist.

I never thought a movement such as Defend Our Juries would be necessary in the UK, yet Draconian laws passed during COVID time have turned our country from being one of freedom and protest to something entirely different. It was these laws that led to the 69 year old former mental-health social worker Trudi Warner being taken to court for holding a placard outside Inner London crown court saying “Jurors you have the absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience.” Words taken from a plaque on the Old Bailey.

On January 29 and 30 I and several other Cornish friends will be in London to join the protest against the silencing of protestors in court. If you can afford a trip to London, do please join us. The information and sign up form is on the website defendourjuries.org

Alternatively you could join in solidarity by displaying a sign with "jurors deserve to hear the whole truth" in your window. We need to fight global heating, and introduce systems change. And one of those systems change should be to recognise that ordinary people pushed to non-violent protest in order to save our future should have the right to be heard.

Lizzy Stroud, opinion column