Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by THORNETT Alan
Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point eco-plan is totally inadequate as a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis – or build-back greener as he likes to put it, writes Alan Thornett. His claim that the package would create up to 250,000 jobs is a sick joke. Even the £12bn funding for it is fake, since (...)
, by WILKINSON Ruth
Yesterday, on Wednesday 25 September, Holyrood passed the new Climate Bill for Scotland. It’s much more ambitious than it was when it was first proposed – but it doesn’t do enough to address the climate emergency.
The Scottish people won’t tolerate inaction
There’s a lot for activists to feel (...)
“The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right.” By grassroots collective Wretched of The Earth.
This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups (...)
, by BUSBY Mattha
Activists to rally at parliament urging government to declare environmental emergency.
Momentum, the youth climate strikers and Extinction Rebellion are to unite in protest outside parliament on Wednesday as Labour calls on the Conservatives to declare an environmental emergency in a (...)
A boat named after Honduran environmental activist, Berta Cáceres who was murdered in 2016, blocked Oxford Circus, London.
Extinction Rebellion’s sustained and inspiring civil disobedience actions that lasted for almost two weeks have put climate change issues front and centre where they belong. (...)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
All disagreements aside, Extinction Rebellion is right to try to shut down the centre of London. It’s “Life or Death”, as they say. There is no middle ground. Either we drastically transform our metabolic relationship with the planet, or we prepare our extinction.
Complaint about ’inconvenience’ (...)
, by JAFRI Kulsoom , MACNAMARA Charlie
If we’ve learned anything from recent history, it’s that even the most worthwhile issues and transformative politics can become co-opted by neoliberal politicians. The imminent spectre of climate disaster demands the most urgent response at all levels of government, but while the current (...)
, by Charity Today
There is public outcry today after three environmental activists become the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest in the UK.
Simon Roscoe Blevins (26), and Richard Roberts (36) were given 16-months in prison while the third man Richard Loiou (31), was given 15-months on (...)
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