As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… | 11th September 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining goldmine.jpg Entrance to a …
Campaigners against the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road gathered outside the Department for Transport’s London offices on Monday to launch Operation Disclosure. Paul Creeney reports...
‘Release Combe Haven redactions or face peaceful office search’ – protesters tell DfT Paul Creeney | 11th March 2013 News Combe Haven Protest Ultimatum dscn0072.jpg Representatives from groups …
Jonathan Kent examines the diverse media coverage of last night's Guy Fawkes protests in London. The reports tell us more about media prejudices, than about the event itself.
Guy Fawkes: the medium is the message! Jonathan Kent | 6th November 2013 Comment Society Media Protest legion.png Jonathan Kent examines the diverse media coverage of last night's Guy Fawkes protests …
Musician Sophie Stammers visited Balcombe, the site of Cuadrilla’s controversial exploratory shale well, with a song to sing at the gates of the oil and gas firm’s operations. She returned with the sense of having become part of something much bigger, something which is steadily gaining momentum.....
This is bigger than Balcombe Sophie Stammers | 22nd August 2013 Comment Climate Change Protest Society balcombe4.jpg The blade of a wind turbine that is destined to be dropped off at the office of …
Rupert Wolfe Murray writes to Prince Charles about his grave concerns for the Rosia Montana region of Transylvania, under threat from Cyanide mining.......
Open Letter to Prince Charles about Cyanide mining in Romania Rupert Wolfe Murray | 12th September 2013 Comment Mining Romania Politics Protest rosiamontana.jpg Rupert Wolfe Murray writes to Prince …
India’s Dongria Kondh tribe have rejected plans by mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills. Although the decision is not yet final, the case has been hailed as an unprecedented triumph for tribal rights ...
Dongria Kondh tribe of India resist powerful mining company Joanna Eede | 20th November 2013 Activism Indigenous Peoples Protest Mining India d7.jpg Where will us children go? How will we survive? …
Last week's 'million mask march' is a telling example of the mainstream media's structural hostility to any realisation of a participatory, deliberative or active public, argues Jamie Mackay.
The beginning is near Jamie Mackay | 12th November 2013 News Society Politics Protest Surveillance Media hacktivism.png Last week's 'million mask march' is a telling example of the mainstream media's …