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Anti-extraction movement in the US gains momentum
March 25th, 2013
by Eric Moll
Protests against fracked-gas pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action resistance to extraction. Insider Eric Moll reports from the Frontline of the resistance more...
Activists return to defend Tasmania's forests as logging resumes
Ollie Milman
27th April, 2012
An agreement that would end 30 years of verbal, and often physical, confrontation over the future of the forests in the Australian state of Tasmania is teetering on the edge of collapse. Ollie Milman reports more...
Smash EDO: the inside story of activists' battle against arms giant
Richard Purssell and Jan Goodey
20th March, 2012
A decade of protest has seen a war of words between police and campaigners, with allegations of undercover spies and a ground-breaking legal victory for activists after a Brighton arms factory was damaged more...
Spanish mountains under threat from open cast coal mining
Almudena Serpis
26th October, 2011
Almudena Serpis reports on the activists taking action against the expansion of coal mining in the beautiful and ecologically important Lacaiana valley more...
Amazon rainforest activist killed after ambush
Tom Philips, guardian Brazil correspondent
25th May, 2011
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fought against illegal loggers and had received death threats but was refused police protection - he is the latest in a long-line of environmental activists being threatened or killed more...
Subvertising: billboard ads for the public interest
Christine Ottery
10th May, 2011
As public spaces become blighted by the £18 billion global outdoors advertising industry, community groups are fighting back to reclaim both ad-free areas or use billboards in a socially beneficial way more...
Conservation International 'agreed to greenwash arms company'
Tom Levitt
11th May, 2011
US environmental charity under fire for close links with controversial companies, including Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto and Shell more...
The Ecologist guide to turning 'clicktivists' into activists
Christine Ottery
25th March, 2011
Continuing our series on how to successfully campaign, Christine Ottery reports on the best ways to motivate armchair activists to take offline action - and gets tips from some of those who've pioneered new forms of protest more...
Heathrow Transition activists celebrate one year stay at community garden
The Ecologist
March 3rd, 2011
Campaigners against the third Heathrow runway and residents of the local villages Sipson, Harmondsworth and Harlington this week celebrated the anniversary of the market garden project in Sipson, 'Grow Heathrow' more...
Dow Chemical in the dock as activists confront corporate spies
Tom Levitt
25th February, 2011
Chemical giant dismisses allegations that it inflitrated Greenpeace in an effort to undermine its direct action campaigns more...
Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
15th February, 2011
Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists more...
Do aggressive and subversive police tactics put-off environmental protesters?
Tom Antebi
9th February, 2011
With the recent spate of police aggression, intimidation and infiltration of the environmental movement, the Ecologist asks if these tactics are turning people away from protests? more...
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Greenland, at the National Theatre
Matilda Lee
10th February, 2011
‘When you see smoke coming from under the door, but nobody does anything about it, you start to believe the majority. Even if the house is on fire, we do nothing.' more...
Emily Apple: 'I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists'
Emily Apple
12th January,2011
The undercover policeman's apology does not repair the lives he has wrecked or help the people he has grassed up more...
Climate activist trial collapses over use of undercover police officer
Tom Antebi
10th January, 2011
The second trial of activists accused of planning to occupy Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station has collapsed after the use of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy was revealed more... Climate activists face jail over Ratcliffe coal plot
Tom Levitt
14th December, 2010
Protesters claim attempts to shutdown E.ON's Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station were 'necessary in the fight against climate change' but could still face a maximum of three months in jail more...
Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining
Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt
14th December, 2010
The recent death of Indian environmentalist Amit Jethva was the latest in a growing number of disturbing incidents of brutality and violence against activists, report Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt more...
The Ecologist guide to video activism
Eifion Rees
23rd November, 2010
The video camera is the weapon of choice for activists and campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a message across and fight back against mainstream media bias. Here's our guide to taking your stand... more...
Scottish climate activists in the dock hope to set legal precedent
Ecologist
14th June, 2010
Climate activists who broke into Aberdeen Airport hope to convince jury their actions were justified in preventing larger crime of runaway climate change more...
Tackling illegal logging
Andrew Wasley
1st April, 2009
Reporting from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those combating illegal logging more...
Fighting for nuclear disarmament
The Ecologist
1st July, 2003
Ploughshares actions started in 1980 in the US. They have taken place in many different countries, with weapons as diverse as rifles, warships, missiles, submarines and aircraft being dismantled or damaged. more...
'Do you want to die?': environmental activists at risk
Tom Levitt
26th October, 2009
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues more...
Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist
Henry Unwin
6th October, 2009
Tamsin Omond's personal account of her journey from carefree student to 'climate suffragette' explores the world of climate activism in a manner that can only inspire more...
Q & A: Sam Roddick, activist & founder of Coco de Mer
Laura Sevier
14th March, 2009
Sam Roddick on spontaneous pleasures, ethical sex toys and civil disobedience more...
Guerrillas in our midst
Olly Zanetti
21st January, 2009
Under cover of darkness, a dedicated team of activists is slowly rescuing unloved pockets of land from botanical meltdown. Olly Zanetti meets the guerrilla gardeners lighting up London. more...Members
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