Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the … Protest Road Direct Action Climate Change Campaign helensmiles.jpg Helen Iles has worked … been through the criminal justice system. Campaign films and social justice Helen's …
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...
… 2010 Activism How To Make A Difference Campaigning:the Basics Film Media Reporting … is the weapon of choice for activists and campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a …
A company bidding to undertake 'underground coal gasification (UGC) - a notoriously hazardous and polluting process - in the UK has threatened a Scottish clean energy campaigner: shut up or get sued. Paul Mobbs reports ...
… Coal gas company warns - stop campaigning or we will sue Paul Mobbs | 18th … the UK has threatened a Scottish clean energy campaigner: shut up or get sued. Paul Mobbs … sent a 'cease and desist' notice to Scottish campaigner Mel Kelly. The notice threatens her …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… can learn from. The GMO lesson Firstly, the campaign against genetically modified (GM) … peace movement. genetiX snowball was a great campaign... Then came the civil injunctions … end of the world. Over my three decades as a campaigner I've collected a few, and whilst …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… the 1990s, when green politics took power and campaign groups slowly began to take corporate … of this change, were marginalised within many campaign groups. In the neo-liberal world, … of car-based transport. In the 2000s campaign groups traded that analysis for the …
Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity'
… he says, is 'serenity' For any environmental campaigner, winning a Goldman Prize is much … Essengui, a civil rights and environmental campaigner from Gabon who won his ‘green … Involved in environmental and humanitarian campaigning for more than ten years, Marc is …
Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water
… growth is down to an aggressive marketing campaign by companies fighting to purify a … prefer tap or perceive no difference) and campaigns such as those run by London’s … Water Matters, a ‘pro-bottle’ internet campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to …
Post Brexit, get ready for a massive attack on our liberty, especially on the right to protest, writes Paul Mobbs. With the UK likely to secede from the European Convention on Human Rights, prepare for a new empowerment of police to act with impunity against peaceful activists. We must be ready to stand up, with honour and dignity, for our ancient British right to dissent.
… people to be activists?' Now that the leading campaigns groups - Greenpeace, Friends of the … they could use the law, and our history, as a campaigning tool - as John Bugg had for me. … anti-roads, Criminal Justice Act and other campaigns - need to crank themselves back in …
David Cameron's appointment of a 'shops tsar', the controversial Localism Bill, and increasing opposition to supermarkets and other chain stores could mark a turning point in the struggle to save Britain's high streets
… been on individuals, communities and campaign groups to act to prevent the creeping … the month. Observers including environmental campaigner and blogger Duncan Clark have … spokesperson and Friends of the Earth food campaigner Helen Rimmer: councillors recently …
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction
… irshad-2009-(4)-small.jpg Irshad Mobarak is campaigning to protect the wildlife and … needn't mean destruction. As well as his campaign of education and petitioning the … afford to destroy them. If Irshad Mobarak's campaign yields results on Langkawi, it may …
Some of nature's most majestic creatures are migratory, but their future in a changing world is far from certain, as a stunning new book of photographs makes clear
… 15 per cent discount READ MORE... NEWS Campaigners launch 'last ditch' attempt to … in wildlife conservation From joining campaigns groups to making your garden more …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… they do on defence in an engaging advertising campaign you’d get people dying to eat tofu or … around freely. ER: CIWF had its Eat Less Meat campaign in 2004, now there is Meat Free Monday and similar campaigns, and a growing number of people …
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports
… Peter Karamoskos, of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), … reactors would soon add up. Anti-nuclear campaigner Peter Karamoskos goes further, … and former Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner Neil Crumpton says the government …
More sites may be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week, but how effective is this register of global hot spots, and what are the areas that truly deserve international protection?
… its most famous international safeguarding campaign in 1959: the relocation of the … the future of our oceans. Jonathan Mazower, campaigns coordinator, Survival International … critical to the ultimately successful campaign to protect Pacific grey whales. The …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
… of the Earth's Demand Ethical Investment campaign page has a sample letter than you can … address from your employer. • Fair Pensions campaigns to use the power of the shareowner … says Duncan Exley, Fair Pensions' director of campaigns. ‘They have influence with the …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
… of the Earth's Demand Ethical Investment campaign page has a sample letter than you can … address from your employer. • Fair Pensions campaigns to use the power of the shareowner … says Duncan Exley, Fair Pensions' director of campaigns. ‘They have influence with the …
Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of aggressive 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America, writes Paul Mobbs. So what are they doing running 'impartial' UK bodies including a Parliamentary group on unconventional oil and gas, and the 'independent' Task Force on Shale Gas? Are they really US-style 'astroturf' bodies designed to fool us all?
… fracking. And though in Scotland that campaign is just getting under-way, in England … any external challenge is to ready a robust campaign that comprises proactive and reactive … database - would organise an on-line campaign, using 35,000 recruited 'activists', …
Little publicised government plans to 'reform' court costs are intended to foreclose access to environmental justice for all but the wealthiest individuals and communities, writes Paul Mobbs. Meanwhile cuts to agencies and regulators will make it ever harder for them to do their jobs - making public participation in environmental protection all the more important.
… judicial review. And no longer can unions or campaign groups sponsor individuals to bring … bad decisions, even for the larger national campaign groups. Of course for medium and … Paul Mobbs is an environmental and peace campaigner. He runs the Free Range Activism …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… be an interesting day for the future of the campaign against unconventional oil and gas in … to. For the public, and anti-fracking campaigners in particular, it's a clear …
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs. And as it eclipses the sounds of nature, it's taking its toll on our health, wellbeing and quality of life. So as well as campaigning for more trees, and quieter cars, trucks and aircraft, what's to be done? Let us seek out calm moments of quiet tranquillity - and listen to the birds.
… wellbeing and quality of life. So as well as campaigning for more trees, and quieter cars, … on ecopsychology as part of local environment campaigns, especially for children , could be …
Just as long term research into the health impacts of the 'electrosmog' created by wifi and mobile phones is yielding its first results, it's at risk of sudden termination from President Trump's budget cuts, writes Paul Mobbs. But the cuts have little to do with saving money - and a lot to do with protecting corporate profit and economic growth from harsh truths, including evidence that electrosmog causes cancer in laboratory rats, and maybe humans too.
… lobby groups to environmental and social campaigns. Just like the UK Coalition … public advice. One of the groups leading the campaign against warnings on the use of mobile …
The findings of a strategic environmental assessment open the way for an increase in the number of offshore wind farms, which could produce enough energy to power every household in the UK
… the UK's electricity demand,’ said FoE energy campaigner Nick Rau. ‘Boosting offshore wind … gone unchallenged,’ he wrote, launching the campaign in an email from his Weber Shandwick …
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals
… of seed are up 40 per cent. Its Grow Your Own campaign will focus on container growing next … outside space, the National Trust launched a campaign earlier this year to persuade …
Low oil prices are putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' projects, writes Paul Mobbs, and may close down the entire fracking and tar sands industries. So why are so many 'Greens' issuing dire warnings, instead of celebrating the good news?
… part of the film is when they interview campaign groups, who largely ignore or … refused to appear. Why do media-led campaign groups feel the need to follow 'the …