Campaigners up and down the country are trying to stop public access land from going under the hammer as UK councils seek ways to plug the Government funding gap. JAN GOODEY reports
Environmental vandalism? Campaigners regroup to stop the Great Downland Sell-Off Jan Goodey | 15th March 2017 Activism Campaigning Protest Conservation SSSI downs 6.jpg Campaigners up and down the …
Last week's decision by the Romanian government to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for Rosia Montana, a historic Carpathian mountain village under threat of gold mining, is a massive victory for campaigners after a hard 15-year struggle, writes Alexandru Predoiu - one that has united farmers, city-dwellers and new-age protestors against cultural and ecological destruction.
… for people in Bucharest, Cluj and other major cities throughout the country to take to the … needed to reach people living outside the big cities where the protests had been taking …
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.
… s in London, Liverpool, Bristol and other cities, sparked by police violence, racism and …
A new report from Global Witness places India fourth in the league table of killings of environmental activists. As part of our collaboration with CLIMATE TRACKER, environmental law researcher MRINALINI SHINDE looks at the human trauma behind the statistics - and calls on India's urban elite to act.
… all our government’s vision regarding Smart Cities and attracting foreign direct …