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...........
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Campaigners fighting a development for an 18-hole golf course on a pristine part of the Moray Firth are planning to launch a legal challenge against the plans with £10,000 they have sourced through crowdfunding. LAURA BRIGGS reports
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Protests of unprecedented scale have been taking place in China against rapid and deadly environmental destruction. A new youth movement is taking to the streets and demanding change. Sam Geall reports
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You've read about the Occupy Wall Street and London protests and you know about corporate greed (and the banking bail-out) but how can you do something about it?
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The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices forced on them by the corporate 'free market' represent serious and effective resistance against the 'free trade' agenda being forced on the world by neoliberal governments, writes David Miller. They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, culture and environment.
Dairy farmers' uprisings lead the way to a democratic world food system David Miller | 17th February 2016 News Protest Farming Food Trade EU Canada USA Labour Corporations Law Politics …
With the 5th International Degrowth Conference taking place next week Spanish Ecologists Professor Joan Martinez Alier and Federico Demaria - both working at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) - explain why we need a 'less is more' alternative economic model and how the burgeoning Global Environmental Justice movement is a key concept in achieving the only goal that will halt Climate Change.
Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice ANTONIO CERRILLO trans. by NICK MEYNEN | 22nd August 2016 News Environmental Justice Climate Change Protest Global Movement For …
Instead of leaching the world's resources to support out-of-control consumerism, EU leaders could do worse than ponder novelist Victor Hugo's claim that whilst "you can kill people, you can't kill an idea whose time has come", writes NICK MEYNEN
Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice Nick Meynen | 20th July 2016 News Climate Change Justice Environment Protest EU Consumerism World Trade screenshot ejatlas.jpg …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
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Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on Peter Walker University of Oregon | 23rd February 2016 News USA Politics The Land Commons Protest gun-cut.jpg Those …
Indigenous elders from the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) people have put mining company Adani - and Australia's governments - on notice to quit the Carmichael mine project over native title claims. MAXINE NEWLANDS reports
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A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.
Stories of resilience Million Belay Liz Hosken | 8th September 2020 | News Food Sovereignty Climate Change Storytelling Africa Seed Protest Indigenous Peoples Ugandan seed custodians A new Ecologist …
Charting a path toward intersectionality and greater diversity for Extinction Rebellion.
Intersectional strategies for rebellion Payal Parekh Asad Rehman | 7th November 2019 News Extinction Rebellion Activism Protest Organising Thought Leaders War On Want …
The anti-fracking victory yesterday should not distract from disturbing trends in the criminalisation of dissent.
Fracking democracy, criminalising dissent Andrea Brock et al | 18th October 2018 News Thought Leaders Fracking Democracy Protest Appeal frack_free_four_appeal_2018_-2284.jpg The anti-fracking victory …
The pristine landscape of South Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend the land are facing deadly consequences: harassment, threats, physical assault and murder. Attacks on mine opponents have taken four lives so far and many others have been injured. But the opposition is growing and gaining international support.
Mining, money and murder: the deadly struggle to protect South Africa's Wild Coast Hal Rhoades | 12th May 2016 News Mining South Africa Africa Indigenous Peoples Protest Finance Corporations …
After 99 days of Donald Trump's presidency, his only achievement is to pursue his anti-climate, anti-environment agenda with a cruel passion that is already alienating a clear majority of Americans, writes Jeremy Brecher. The Peoples Climate March tomorrow will signal the strength of the fightback. And while there will be no overnight victory, a national, indeed a global movement is forming to resist Trump and bring the age of fossil fuels to its long overdue end.
A climate insurgency: building a Trump-free, fossil-free future Jeremy Brecher | 28th April 2014 News Politics Climate Change Protest people's_climate_march-cut.jpg After 99 days of Donald Trump's …
Having been banned from the fields of Heathrow by a court injunction last week, protest group Plane Stupid have set up their own climate camp – under the wing of an Airbus A380 currently being transported along the River Dee.
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It started in Wall Street but has now spread to cities all over the world. The Ecologist visited the London demonstration against financial greed and inequality to hear what activists had to say...
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Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old.
Climate, class, and revolting children Chris Saltmarsh | 30th January 2019 News Climate Change Students Children Protest students-school-in-t.jpg Radical action on climate change should be the many …