A Peruvian judge has ordered a mayor accused of inciting anti-mining protests to be held in “preventative” detention for up to five months. Two people died and many dozens were injured in Monday’s protests in Espinar against the expansion of a copper mine run by Swiss company Xstrata. Oscar Mollohuanca rejects accusations he incited...
Plans to establish an 8100-cow dairy farm in Lincolnshire have been torn in half following protests from local residents and animal welfare campaigners. Nocton Dairies, the farmer-owned company behind the controversial “mega-dairy” project, will submit a planning application for a much smaller herd size. It is believed that numbers will be cut to 4000...
Riot police fire tear gas and water cannon at activists as anti-nuclear protests spill over into violence Riot police used truncheons and teargas today to clear a rail line during violent clashes with activists trying to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste in Germany. Around 250 activists had tried to damage the track...
In early 2009, Emily James began filming the clandestine activities of several environmental direct action groups across the UK. Allowed unprecedented access, Emily documented a year of escalating action that began in spring with the now infamous G20 demonstrations in London. Always in the thick of it and with ever her trusty camera to hand...
By Martin Banks – 7th October 2010 Greenpeace Police sealed off the main entrances to parliament on Thursday after dozens of Greenpeace protestors descended on the building. Up to 60 demonstrators delivered radioactive waste to the door of the assembly in a bid to remind MEPs of the issue in their last plenary session...
International protestors blockade Finland’s Olkiluoto NPP for 10 hours Blockade of the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant, August 28, 2010 http://www.olkiluotoblockade.info/ OLKILUOTO, Finland – The main road leading to Finland’s Olkiluoto Nuclear power plant was blocked off for nearly 10 hours by anti-nuclear demonstrators from all over Europe – including from Russia and Belarus –...
Dear Friends, A few months back, you likely heard about a vitally important court case involving the prosecution of a principled young environmental activist named Tim DeChristopher. After several delays, that trial is back on and we are asking for your support on its openings days: September 13-15. Why is this trial so important...
Short campaign video from Plane Stupid. I’m posting this out of interest in diversity in campaigning , but acknowledging the old rule that if you can’t say something good don’t say anything at all….my lips are sealed…. http://www.planestupid.com/
“Making that decision — that keeping the oil in the ground was worth going to prison — that was the decision I made,” said Tim DeChristopher. SALT LAKE CITY — Tim DeChristopher became convinced last year that global warming’s potential effects were so urgent and dire that direct action was needed. The niceties of...
After several years of sustained protest and direct action the new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth has been put on hold. Kingsnorth activists: ‘The pressure being applied was a factor’ The decision to abandon plans for the controversial coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth was last night heralded as a victory by environmental activists who...
