Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.
… their relatives killed during the big wave of protests in November 2019. The protest began on 19 June, the day after the … Day, when various organizations called for protests or supported protests to improve …
Naomi Klein's magnum opus on climate change, capitalism and the growing resistance to extreme energy is positive, inspiring and full of hope, writes Jonathon Porritt. But it's also deeply challenging: the 'everything' that has to change is not just government and corporations, but you, me and the ideas that guide our lives.
… time of today's rather different pattern of protest against new oil, coal and gas … closest sight of this here in the UK were the protests at Balcombe in Sussex back in 2013. … the world homing in on dozens of similar protests, from the Skouries Forest in Greece …
Kazakhstan ten years after the Zhanaozen massacre: oil workers’ fight to organise goes on.
… Action 800px-mangystau_union_square_protest_2011-12-18.jpg Kazakhstan ten years … and the Andijan massacre [of hundreds of protesters in Uzbekistan in May … of young people who blocked a railroad to protest at the Zhanaozen massacre, needs to be …
How the Silvertown tunnel reinforces deadly climate doublethink.
… of local residents who have turned out on protests. Yet preparatory work is already … MPs and community activists wrote their own protest letters, Heidi Alexander, former … council leadership’s efforts to silence our protests went into overdrive. The former local …
Protest at political inaction on climate breakdown has reinforced opposition to the Silvertown tunnel project in east London.
… Makers screenshot_2019-07-14_at_23.17.28.png Protest at political inaction on climate … last month’s meeting . In response to climate protests, the borough had declared a “climate …
Is the UK sinking into authoritarian rule? That's how it looks, writes Jonathon Porritt, as the government joins with right wing media and fossil fuel companies to attack local democracy and environmental campaigners. Is this 'merger of state and corporate power' a sign of more, and worse, to come?
… concerns that we raised about the right to protest, police surveillance and so on, came … of those half-hearted Lib Dem squeaks of protest) that is only too happy to show its …
The UK Government cannot claim to be dealing with climate change and build the Silvertown Tunnel.
… Infrastructure Science Systems new-silvertown-protest-1024x728.jpg The UK Government cannot … – in response to the school students’ climate protests and street actions by Extinction …
Social movements need to mobilise now and unite people hammered by rising energy bills with protesters who fear climate breakdown.
… people hammered by rising energy bills with protesters who fear climate breakdown. Two … of Jubilee Climate points out that climate protest is vulnerable to the “aesthetic of … groups it supports do. Light Linking climate protest with trade union action for a “just …
Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by Michael E. Mann.
… the problems I had with his arguments. Protesters He rightly derides claims by Bjorn … in France. Mann writes: “although most of the protesters actually supported action on … Trump Moreover, “Russian trolls helped incite protests and rioting […] using messaging that …
Breathe by Sadiq Khan offers a glimpse into the London Mayor's 'internal struggle between action on climate and corporate interests'.
… box at the end), but denounces “unlawful” protest – despite knowing fine well that the … systematically shrinking the space for lawful protest. Khan writes that when the GLA … in 2019 with three Extinction Rebellion protesters, after the organisation blocked …
The implementation of the Silvertown Tunnel project has steamrolled democracy and will pollute the local area and trash the climate.
… against the tunnel by the new wave of climate protests led by Fridays for Future and … as compatible with climate policy. We have protested vigorously about this. Some false …
Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.
… can learn a lesson from the ‘Yellow Vests’ protests in France in 2018. These were … groups it supports do. • Linking climate protest with trade union action for a just …
The Labour party conference adopted the most radical climate policy of any in a G20 economy - but there will be battles ahead: with the leadership, and with union bosses.
… forced by the upsurge of radical climate protest. It is no coincidence that it came …
With the Government wilfully undermining the UK's small but fast-growing solar power sector for the second time, Jonathon Porritt wonders ... why the attacks on what is our second lowest cost source of renewable energy, and getting cheaper all the time?
… EU target for 2015. And despite your protestations at the Big Green Week Election …
French nuclear parastatal EDF is facing problem after problem - zombie nuclear projects in the UK, Finland, China and France, a fleet of 'beyond the grave' reactors, a dropping share price and its drooping credit rating. But is it really as bad as all that? Jonathon Porritt has exclusive access to the leaked Agenda of its latest board meeting. And the answer is - no. It's even worse.
… decision is very close." 'Stop Hinkley Point' protesters occupied our offices in Bridgewater …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
… contrast to those on the “left” who see the protests only through a geopolitical frame (of … China. Xi’s “thuggish crackdown” on the protests have had the opposite of their …
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report provides an account of an industry in decline, writes Jonathon Porritt - with rising operating costs and an ever-shrinking share of world energy production, while the sector loses the race for investment and new generating capacity to fast growing renewable energy technologies.
… as ever, whatever the self-justifying protestations of George Monbiot - the man who, …
We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.
… by governments, the revival of climate protests by striking school students and … The coronavirus epidemic has stopped street protests, but has triggered new forms of …
The previous government came in on a bold promise to be the 'greenest ever', writes Jonathon Porritt. But what we got was a shameful record of ideologically driven policies that promoted fossil fuels, undermined action on climate, obsessed over nuclear power, did nothing to arrest the decline in the nation's wildlife and biodiversity - and suggest even worse to come.
… But whilst they stood idly by, a massive protest by local community groups and the …