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 …
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...........
… Lorna Howarth | 11th September 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining goldmine.jpg … the Roman period. Rosia Montana, Romania. Protestors believe mining for gold should … responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports........... What …
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 …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
… democracy Lorna Howarth | 6th March 2013 News protest.jpg Intimidation tactics and violence are being used increasingly against protestors. The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth … by Monbiot, could financially ruin the protesters and give them a criminal record for …
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 …
Lorna Howarth thought she knew plenty about activism, until she read The Activist’s Handbook which changed her way of thinking about how (and why) we can all make a difference
… Lorna Howarth | 29th November 2012 Comment protest.jpg.jpg Lorna Howarth thought she knew … Well no – activism by most people is seen as protesting against something: at best raising …
In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
… After two weeks of deploying tactics such as protests, e-campaigns, flash-mobs, rallies and … signatures to support the SWCC movement with protests at the Royal Dutch Shell HQ in The …
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 …
Allowing tar sands oil into Europe would be a victory for ‘profit-before-planet’ politics warns Lorna Howarth
… joined the Tar Sands Blockaders who have been protesting over the laying of TransCanada’s XL … brutal the authorities are with the ‘hippies’ protesting over the corporation’s damage to …
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 …
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 …
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 …